I hate it.. but if we remove it, the rock (that I also dislike 🤣) wouldn’t be held on at all. Wondering if we could add a brick border or something to the edge to hide it? Or to replace it?
by Classylady_242
I hate it.. but if we remove it, the rock (that I also dislike 🤣) wouldn’t be held on at all. Wondering if we could add a brick border or something to the edge to hide it? Or to replace it?
by Classylady_242
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Remove rocks. Add mulch.Â
Ideally I think the metal should be mostly below grade.
Pull the rocks back from the edge, remove the metal border, cut three inches straight down, and remove a little material from the rock side to create a slope down to that 3″ cut, put the border back where it was (but lower), and replace the rocks.
Done properly, the black border should be nearly invisible while still keeping your rocks and grass separated.
Put in a rest station with some very clean bathrooms.
Just run over it with a mower a couple times. I’m a firm advocate against these edgings. They never get done correctly and even if you do correctly, they don’t do much and people run over it and damage it. Stone edging or concrete units are are more durable and easier to manage.
You can hammer that down. Use a flat garden spade to cut down 1-2″ along the edging and it will knock down easier. Of course, remove rocks that are under the edging. Slope the rocks down to the edging as needed.
If you have lots of roots, it may be easier to add dirt and sod to the outside. I’d scrape with a hula hoe any grass that may grow under the edging before dirt.
I prefer a manufactured stone border set mostly into the dirt. I use an 11.2” Tranquil retaining wall concrete block that Lowes sells.
You’re going to want to lift the lawn up about 4 inches or so
Lillies, daffodils, and narcissus planted along the edges. No one will be looking at the side of the concrete.
We added a border of single 3-6″ stones all along the outside edge of a similar border. I imagine the feasibility depends on the length you have to cover.
It needs a big beautiful wall… that’s expensive and does absolutely nothing.