Various edging materials serve to separate regions in a landscape, efficiently featuring mulch, soil and ground covers or excluding turf grass, foot traffic and lawnmowers. A mowing edge strip is created when the edging material is put precisely so it’s flush, or only marginally above, the soil surface. That positioning permits wheels on one side of a lawnmower to travel atop the edging with no mower’s cutting sword hitting the edging, keeping a neat lawn border with no additional trimming needed. Brick can be used to create an attractive, neat, mowing edge strip.
Dig a trench in which you plan to install a brick mowing edge strip. Produce a trench that’s approximately 3 inches wider than the intended mowing strip. The specific width measurement is dependent upon how you need bricks to be arranged in the mowing strip. Alternatives include bricks laid longwise, one row of bricks with their brief ends facing a row of bricks with their brief ends facing outward abutted by a row of bricks laid longwise.
Place about a 2-inch deep layer of gravel in the bottom of the trench, and tamp the gravel. Decide on a flat on top of the gravel in various sections to assess whether the gravel layer is rather level. Move, add or remove gravel as needed to make the gravel layer even.
Add about a 1-inch thick layer of sand or rock dust on top of the gravel. Expand the sand or rock dust evenly, and tamp it. Check the levelness of the sand or rock dust layer together with the degree, and add or remove sand or rock dust as needed to produce the surface level.
Establish bricks as closely together as possible in the prepared trench. After every few bricks, then put the level on top of the bricks in multiple directions to assess whether they are completely flat. Make adjustments as needed to make the bricks level. Keep putting the bricks until they fill the entire prepared trench.
Shovel a small amount of sand onto the brick surface, and brush the sand into the spaces between the bricks with either a stiff-bristled brush or piece of scrap wood.
Fill the distances on all sides of the brick mowing edge strip with soil, back-fill or strips of grass you’ve removed to dig the trench.