Instantly Elevate Your Yard
With this Metal Garden Edging
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On a plane ride from Seattle to Northern California, I pulled up a house on Zillow and showed it to my husband. “I know this is further up the hill than you want to be, but this house checks a lot of boxes.”
There was an open house that day so we hopped off the plane, went and checked on our dog and then headed up to see the house. It was an older house, but exactly what we wanted.
Four bedrooms, three baths, a pool, almost an acre, plenty of room for our dog, and the closet in the primary - my word, the closet space!
Because it was May, the “lawn” area was green, we could see that there were weeds, but it seemed like it was redeemable. Boy oh boy were we wrong.
We spent the next two years just fighting the weeds, I wouldn’t even call it managing. It was about just surviving them. Then in 2024 I found out I was pregnant mid-March, so I wanted to do a Halloween baby shower (see Bat Baby Shower post). And I wanted the front yard to be a pumpkin patch where people could pick pumpkins as their baby shower favors.
The pumpkin patch was first, a major hit, and second, a complete success. We ended up with almost a hundred pumpkins and several that were nearing or over 100 lbs! My husband and I caught the gardening bug and my plan for a garden, and an aesthitic front yard was born.
So in Spring of 2025 we booked our landscaper to lay down some sod. We finally had a handle on both the gopher problem (I will be talking about that in another post soon) and we had been keeping the weeds at bay. Once the Sod was in place I quickly felt like there was something missing. There was now grass that I had been wanting for a long time, but it looked incomplete. I took to Pinterest to find something to make my yard look put together.
That is when I found the metal edging that we ended up installing. I had seen other metal edging, but it only had a couple of teeth on it, and we have the hard California clay dirt that will bend gardening tools if you aren’t careful. This was perfect. it had teeth about every inch going down the piece and seemed easy to install. The first company I came across was very expensive so I set out to find something comparable.
This Metal Edging from Amazon was perfect. The company is Stirlingear. It comes in a pack of six 40” long panels, with 6 stakes that help connect the pieces and gloves that worked great with the sharp pieces. We also had to bend a piece to go around the corner and that was pretty easy, my husband first bent it a little by hand and then used a hammer to get it in a better angle.
My husband and I do not consider ourselves DIYers for the most part since we have had projects go horribly before, but this was truly so easy. We didn’t have to level much, just eyed it and were able to get it straight and even.
As far as the rusting goes, it has progressed since being installed. I honestly just love this and I cannot wait to see what it looks like as the lavender hedge grows (we will also be planting another row of lavender), and develop our garden, which is currently that plan dirt you see in front of the hedge!