Murky said: I agree! And that neat grass edging that looks so even, I really wish I could keep my edges like that.
Thanks for the kind words.
The lawn isn't looking its best at the moment, a lot of moss as usual at the bottom end. This will go as we move into the summer.
The "neat grass edge" to the right is because the lawn is the same height as the crazy York stone path. So just an occasional run along the join with a strimmer, keeps it looking neat. The grass wants to creep over the edge of the path, so in the growing season it's easy enough to get a clean cut.
The left-hand side was always more difficult, as were the features. I was always getting "border creep," so about fifteen years go I cured it.
I dug a clean vertical edge to the grass to a depth of about nine inches and created a gully between the lawn and the border. Then I laid some small diameter hardcore and then some damp fine mix concrete.
I'd bough a load four inch square block paving bricks and laid them in the concrete mix level with and hard up against the edge of the lawn. Then created a bit of a ramp up half way up the border side of the bricks.
The following day I made up some mortar mix with some yellow die just to tone it down a bit and pointed up the bricks.
Old border.
New border.
Feature beds.
Old.
New
I did the same with our small front garden.
All that was fifteen years ago. I did it all in an afternoon and the following morning. Bricks are easy to lay, you just need a spirit level to place on top of three you've laid to set the height of the next one.
The bricks need little maintenance, every three or four years I pass the jet washing along the length to clear any moss that tries to adhere to them.
This is from last year.
Riley
