Check landfills or waste dumps for chunks of concrete you can break up with a hammer to create smaller pieces. Stones, Concrete and BrickĬement or brick pavers are relatively inexpensive border materials, especially if you buy them from building surplus and salvage supply stores. For an exotic look, if you have access to coconut shells or seashells, line them up in trenches to form borders for your landscape. Other options include upturned rain gutters or sidewall strips cut from used tires. Terra cotta roofing tiles or broken pieces of ceramic tiles or clay pots, if large enough, can also be embedded in the soil to form edging. Colored glass bottles of one uniform color or a variety of colors can be stuck neck-down in a row to create a border.
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Other potentially free or inexpensive sources for border materials include repurposed objects or items from flea markets, yard sales, attics, salvage stores or from nature. Plastic edging may need stakes or screws to keep it anchored in place. The least expensive form is the 3- to 4-inch-tall poly edging, although its lightweight nature means it’s easily damaged by mowers. Plastic edging typically comes in 20-foot strips that may need to be cut to fit or in shorter pieces that snap together. Plastic edging, also known as poly edging, is composed of flexible strips that are either smooth or corrugated and usually dark green, brown or black.
Avoid using mulch in areas with poor drainage. You can also buy bags of mulch inexpensively at home centers, hardware stores, nurseries and landscape suppliers. Local public works departments and tree trimming services often have piles of wood chips or mulch free for the hauling. Bark, wood chips, leaves, hay, straw, grass clippings, shredded newspaper and pine needles from your yard or neighborhood add a natural feel to a landscape. Mulch works well as a border, particularly around garden plantings and pathways. Because wood eventually rots, consider treating it with a preservative or choose rot-resistant woods like redwood, cedar, white oak and black locust. Old fence panels from architectural salvage stores or flea markets can also be sawed into smaller pieces and used for edging. Railroad offices often are willing to give away discarded cross ties, and local businesses may have wooden pallets they no longer need. One free option is to use branches or timber from your own yard or that you find along the road. Wood is inexpensive and relatively easy to install. From recycled and found objects to commercially available plastic edging, you have choices to suit your design and budget.
Many border materials are expensive, but less expensive options are available, and some are free. Landscape borders and edging can help define different areas of your yard, hold in soil, line your walkway or simply give your garden a more polished look.
Landscaping borders and edging can be inexpensive and attractive at the same time.
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