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How to Install Horizontal Log
Edging
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Instructions for
installing horizontal wood edging
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Walkway - Landscaping design - Country house -
Self-sufficiency - Homesteading projects - Gardening
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| In the following article,
you'll find commented photos about tips and tricks for
strategically installing logs and creating a wooden garden
edging (step 4 in creating a wooden garden edging). Whether it's
to outline a flowerbed or define garden paths, using logs is an
option to consider. |
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Tips for setting logs in place |
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Using Logs for Garden Edging
Perfect edges for
your beds and borders |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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Once transported to
their assembly site, the logs are ready to be
measured and cut.
As seen in the previous step, heavy logs can be
handled using a variety of methods.
Don't forget to wear gloves to avoid splinters.
In the project shown here, the log edging will
delimit flowerbeds and garden paths or walkways. |
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Both logs under the big one for transporting it |
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How to Fit Log Edging
Tips for installing
log edging |
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How to install logs
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Both ends of the log
are cut at the same angle as the left and right
logs.
In this particular case, the left end of the log
will be cut at 20 degrees, and the other end
will not need cutting, as a right angle (90
degrees) is required for this bed. |
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Edging beds next to the entrance of a garden
bridge |
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How to Install Horizontal Log Edging
Edges for garden
paths |
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How to install logs
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Here, at the entrance
to my garden bridge, I had to edge my flowerbed
in addition to containing the stone dust from
the garden path.
Choosing the diameter of a log always depends on
the need at a specific location. |
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Edging walkway and flowerbeds at once |
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Install Path Edging
Assemble end to end
the pieces of wooden log |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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A landscape fabric was
laid on the ground. After a few years in place,
I advise you that's isn't a good idea to use it.
It wasn't necessary.
On the right, two logs aligned to delimit the
flowerbed and garden path edging the vegetable
garden. |
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Wooden garden edging |
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How do you use logs for edging
Landscaping around a
garden bridge |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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Front view of the
entrances to the garden bridge overlooking my
250-foot long garden stream. This stream is the
natural filter for my garden pond.
A log edging keeps stone dust out of this
perennial garden bed. |
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Rustic landscaping ideas |
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Preparing the ground
Foundation of log
edges |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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A round shovel is used
to prepare the trenches in which the logs will
be installed.
Stone dust is either dug out or added under the
log so that it is at the same height as the
other logs forming the border. |
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Challenge to edging curved garden beds using
logs |
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Customizing Beds
Curved edge design |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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This log is cut on site
to finish off the curved edge of the flowerbed.
Curved flowerbeds require that logs must be cut
at much steeper angles. |
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Put 4x4 piece of wood under log before cut it to
the angle required |
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How to edge curved beds
Installation height |
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How to install logs
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You can either bury the
logs flush with the lawn for easier mowing (the
mower wheels run over the edging), or let the
logs emerge from the ground.
The key to preventing the grass from penetrating
the flowerbed is to bury the edging a minimum of
8 inches into the ground. |
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Assemble end to end the pieces of wooden log |
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How do you install log edging?
DIY instructions |
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How to install logs
for making borders
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This curved garden bed
is edged with logs cut at angles with a
chainsaw.
The flowerbed or garden bed is covered with wood
chips mulch or ramial chipped wood (RCW) or
organic mulch. |
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