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How to Install Cedar Landscape Edging
How to Install Cedar Landscape Edging. Installing a garden bed, paver path or other landscaping addition can add to the attractiveness of your garden or lawn. When a garden is planted next to a lawn, you may need to define the separate areas. Landscape edging can create a clear barrier between yard and garden areas, and using cedar edging can add...
Installing a garden bed, paver path or other landscaping addition can add to the attractiveness of your garden or lawn. When a garden is planted next to a lawn, you may need to define the separate areas. Landscape edging can create a clear barrier between yard and garden areas, and using cedar edging can add a rustic and natural style to your landscaping designs.
Things You'll Need
Flat spade
Cedar edging pieces
Wooden stakes
Sledgehammer
Hammer
Nails
Dig a trench with a flat-blade spade the width of your cedar pieces. Depending on the style you choose, you can bury the wood pieces completely or leave some of the wood visible. Dig the trench to the appropriate depth for your selection.
Set your first cedar board into place in the trench. If necessary, backfill the trench slightly with some of the soil removed earlier to keep the cedar board in place. Set the next board so that it adjoins to the first. Continue until you have installed the entire edging.
Line up a 1-foot-long wooden stake with the edge of the first cedar board. Drive this stake directly into the ground with a sledgehammer until it sits 1 inch below the top edge of the board. Repeat installing these stakes every 5 feet along the edging.
Hammer long nails through the stakes and into the boards to secure the edging in its standing position. Install two to three nails into each stake and board. These stakes prevent the boards from shifting with soil changes.
Tips & Warnings
When digging your trench, remember that the wooden boards are straight. If you need to work around curves, dig out a long slightly-curving trench that will allow the boards to create a soft curve.
Cedar naturally resists rot and weathering, but will eventually wear down. Search wood suppliers for pressure-treated cedar pieces. These wooden pieces resist rot and weathering longer than untreated pieces.
If you bury more than half of the cedar pieces under the ground, you may not need the wooden stakes to hold the edging in place.
