Edge Beds Like a Pro Using Only a Shovel - BEST Technique for GREAT results

Great. I bought an expensive edger and wished I had seen this first. I do have a question. Would you use the same motion in edging a sidewalk?

Great video 🎉

Greetings,
Got my Fiskars yesterday. Wow...came out great.
Chief Ken Bauer, USAF (Ret)

Greetings,
Got my Fiskars shovel on order. Gonna throw away that half-moon piece of junk.
Thanks
Chief Ken Bauer, USAF (Ret)

Always use a sharp shovel.

What a great technique. I love the look of those edges without having to put in edging, which I think is an outdated look now.

Great technique! Tool is ready .. waiting for a good rain!❤

Outstanding video, man.

Muchas gracias por la información 👍

Just the information I'm looking for. Thanks

I bought that Fiskars shovel for a huge retaining wall project around my pool. It is built like a tank & extremely effective. Excellent at trenching & very comfortable to use. It's only weakness is that is doesn't hold much when used as a transfer shovel. But, you know, just use a transfer shovel...

Thank you, I’m going to buy one of those shovels and get this job done 😊

Excellent! I really need this help!❤

Very helpful. Thanks

Square shovel, not spade (which looks like...a spade in cards)

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I have the same shovel and tried using the corner and putting it flat against the ground. I found absolutely zero difference.

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Best video I have found in edging. I am an older lady with no one to do it. Wish me luck!

Looks great!

Your edges look great! Your technique made so much sense!

Thank you for this

Straight to the point without a lot of unnecessary talking. Great tutorial and I will be giving it a try in my garden, thank you.

This was GREAT!!! Thank you!!!

Good job

Thanks for the tip but my garden has grass growing right up to the plants in some spots! It is not as 'neat' as yours. :(

I do the same thing for beds. Walkways get done with the power edger though. I always save the cuttings to patch bare spots in the lawn. Here in Central Florida there are always bare spots to tend to. Any sod grown at home will grow better than what you get from the garden center as it is from sod farms in South Florida which is a different soil type. I do the same with any stray grass clumps I pull up from beds or between paving cracks.

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May I ask how deep , do I go in when I'm making the line, done people say 4 inches , so bit drys out on the top ? You didn't touch on this , but great tips anyways thank you

Thank you very much got a couple berm is out there in the yard that could use some definition around them

Thanks for sharing.. great technique ! A clean sharplend tool edge is a must. I have badly overgrown sidewalks any suggestions for edging them?

In the UK we call this tool a spade! There is a difference between a spade and a shovel. Doh!!!

Awesome ‼️😀

❤ very nice thank you for this video

Thank you. I cannot afford to buy a 1/2 moon edger. I need to use what I have! I appreciate this. I’m going to try it after a rain.

Thank you for this video. I am a senior who is trying to redo front yard. Having the ground wet is the way I have always work the dirt, BUT using the corner of the spade will be of great help. So easy, not sure why I didn't think of it, LOL!

This looks nice, but try driving a heavy lawn tractor up to that edge, I assume over time edge gets pushed down and constantly needs the edge redefined again?

I call that the side step boogie

Will it work if I want to change the top soil or add a new fertilized soil before grass seeding for a new lawn?

A SHOVEL REALLY is nice I have done it before, however not with this technique! This is really a nice way! However, it still is a lot of work to use that shovel to edge like this, although I never thought of that after the rain. I think you have give it some time after the rain or else it will be a bit messy and garden work boots may be in order.

That's my specialty when I edge up the beds 💪🏾 worked for a company called maxalea for some time and I've learned alot.. thanks for sharing your technique.

Thanks for the tips!

you are literally the only video that mentions the BEST time to edge is after a rain day. This is soooo important. Makes the job so much easier.

I did the same with Woodglut :)

exactly

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Super helpful. I have a huge half moon shaped area that I’ve covered in wood chips to kill the lawn. I need to do this to clean up the edges. I have this exact Fiskars tool too!

For digging a trench or edging…this is the way I discovered too. i have doing it and wondered if it was relatively more efficient …. I have the power tools but for quick clean lines without all the gear, this method makes sense.

Nice angle trick. Remember to keep compost off those edges as the cut edge/air keep/slows down the grass roots.