How Do You Maintain A Crisp Lawn Edge?
Golf courses and resorts have used techniques for creating crisp lines in their landscaping for years. Follow a few simple guidelines and you can have a yard that looks as professionally designed as a resort. Walk the yard and sketch it. Take a pad and some colored pencils, walk the yard and roughly sketch out the dimensions and existing features. Note areas of shade, where the grass appears to be patchy or weeds seem to thrive. With the sketched drawing as a guideline, you can decide which areas are best for sod and which areas can be established for planting beds. You will be able to tell where shade plant beds need to be placed and which areas need to have weed control measures taken. It will also allow you to plan for irrigation. Select edging materials. Choose from corrugated plastic or metal edging strips that you bury before sowing or sodding and that are invisible once the grass is growing strongly. Alternatively, lay a brick mowing strip. Bricks need to be only just above the
