How to Edge a Garden Bed With Brick | This Old House
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Visiting friends will be really impressed when you tell them it took 4 years to complete this job...
I watched this video 5 years ago when it was released.. Today, I have a weed filled trench, bricks in piles within the flower bed and I'm missing the tips of 3 fingers.... lol!
To figure how many bricks you need, make 3-5 trips to Home Depot.
I realize it's 7 years after the video was posted so not many people will read this but I had to comment. It's seems really dumb to me to shovel all the dirt onto a tarp and then turn right around and shovel it into the garden bed. That's crazy! Just shovel it into the garden bed the first time so that you don't have to move it all twice!!
Take this hundred dollar tool, perform this action. Take this other hundred dollar tool, perform this other action.
Why not shovel the trench soil onto the flower bed in the first place?
Got a bunch of antique bricks I dug out of what is to be my new garden. I've been told that they used to firm the walkway. I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. This seems like a great idea.
this can literally be done by laying down bricks-I live in upstate NY and even with the weather conditions I haven't needed anything else to hold them in place---they haven't budged lol
I was able to do something similar to all my garden beds(6) and used white brick and man did it come out great. I'm now adding a bunch new plants and seasonal vegetables and fruit. Where I live in Texas every single neighbor has their own garden and really a mini farm.
thats a lot of work
I live in Iowa and I used paver base with leveling sand for a similar project using retaining wall bricks. Pretty solid. I plan on doing the same thing as this video for the side of my house with the paver bricks and using paver base with leveling sand again. But I'll use the polymeric sand to fill gaps since they are pavers
Love the comments. Work for the sake of work. Proof that all you tube videos are useful
I love how you speak! So tranquil and relaxing to listen to!
make your garden edging radius to match your mowers turn radius
I'm a gonna do a sawtooth design with my bricks. Did the entire width inside my cedar fence for my daughter's garden. Freakin' breeze. Dig a trench, put down a string line to keep it straight and do a little trenching. Work with each brick & place on 45 degree angle. Very Zen like. Old Philly style border. Geeze, I need a landscaping degree for this project. I have to be an expert in enough garbage in this life. Landscaping ain't one of them. A project that's fun and easy. That's what I'm talking about.
wow - you make it seem so easy - looks great
A few pro tips: if you have one use a gas edger with the metal blade attachment. Makes digging out grass a lot faster. Use paint to mark curves and a piece of lumber to keep straight lines super straight as you cut with the edger. But more importantly the curved bricks are super easy and nicer than this video with two things - a speed square and a tile saw. A cheapie saw will work but as you move up in saw quality your job goes faster. When you get to the first brick in your curve lay it next to the previous brick. Lay the speed square on the previous brick and mark the angle with pencil on the next brick. That's your curve line! Each brick of the curve just lay next to the previous and mark with the speed square. More cuts to make but no gaps to fill and looks super professional.
I wish I would have watched this BEFORE I did my project- oh well, live and learn. Or rather live, learn, tear it all up, do it over till I get it right.
I created two of these borders. I used gray bricks instead of red bricks
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