Comments on: Can I Do My Own Trenching Around Landscaping Areas That Looks Professional?

By: Wordpress Amazon Autoposter Plugin

Wordpress Amazon Autoposter Plugin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:06:30 +0000

We rent a trencher, it’s usually about $40 for half a day. It’s heavy and very hard work. You can either rent one that you push or one that you drag behind you. The worse part is getting it to your home. We prefer the one you drag behind you, but I think it’s a matter of preference.
We re-outline our yard about every two years. The elements and children seem to take the nice edging off of the beds. You do not use it to “edge” your hard surfaces. It cuts a shallow, thin trench around your beds. Then you tuck your mulch into the edge by using a flat shovel. This sort of pushes down the mulch around the beds so that it does wash out.
I have never found one at Home Depot and they usually don’t know what you’re talking about there. Don’t call it an edger or you’ll get a machine that looks like a weedeater with blades.
If you want to use your shovel, use a flat shovel and push it straight down into the soil about 3 inches. Take the dirt and sort of push it towards the bed. Outline the area and then take a rake and level the soil evenly around the bed. Sort of gently mounding the soil away from the edge. This is what we do every other year to keep the edges looking nice. This is even harder work and your arms will be sore if the bed doesn’t already have an edge or you have tough grass like bermuda.

By: World Cup

World Cup — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:48:41 +0000

Trenching machine!!! This guy is a ripoff. Go to Wal mart buy a gas or electric edger,they sell for around 30-40 bucks and you can get your edging there too.loosen soil place edging in loose soil have fun do it the way you want it.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:36:11 +0000

Only a matter of inches, youre best bet is to do the work yourself unless its a backbreaking mission impossible! Take 1 spade and a lil (not hard) work and youre done.

By: CCL

CCL — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:03:56 +0000

Go to a home depot they can help.

By: Mark G

Mark G — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:00:03 +0000

It’s called a trencher, but its probably not necessary unless you have a lot of area to cover or very hard ground. You can rent them – I’m not sure about Home Depot (maybe), but a place that rents heavy equipmnet, etc. , like Taylor Rents, would have one. After you make the trench, then you would half bury some sort of edger block or landscape block/brick to form an edge.
The other thing that he could have been talking about is continuous curbing. Here you would have to hire a pro. They use a machine that extrudes concrete to look similar to a curb. There are different patterns, edges and colors. No digging is required, and they go around the perimeter of your beds. Very clean, professional finish and the price is not too bad (charged by the linear foot) The only drawback to this approach is that it locks you in to the bed size and shape you have.

By: Luke D

Luke D — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:23:41 +0000

Its called a bed edger. It puts a 45deg. angle about 3-4 inches deep around the bed. Best thing to do is to mark the edge of the bed with marking paint.(its the kind that marks upside down) To make a nice round circle around trees tie a piece of rope lightly around the tree and pull out enough to make to size circle tie knot around the marking paint and then slowly walk around it makes a nice line that you can use the edger to make that “PROFESSIONAL” look. It also helps keeping weeds from growing into the bed. Home Depot might have one but most rental places have one the you can rent.
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