We have a few areas in our lawn that are heavily shaded by large pine and cedar trees. Instead of investing money into grass seed and fertilizer every year, I decided to turn the areas into perennial flower beds with shade tolerant plants.
I could have popped over to Home Depot and gotten a can of marking paint to outline the beds, but that would have required getting dressed and spending money. I didn’t particularly want to do either, so I grabbed the garden hose and went to town.
The advantages of outlining a new flower {or garden} bed with a hose is that it is bendy. I allows you to make rounded edges easily and totally visualize the space. Best of all, you can change it if you don’t like it.
Cheap and effective. Just the way I like it.
~Mavis
Deborah says
I love it! Simple, yet brilliant. 🙂
buterflyweed says
Might I also suggest that before you dig, you run the mower around those curves to make sure it is easy to maneuver around the bends. Learned this one the hard way. 🙁
Debbie says
Awesome idea! 🙂 This sounds like a goofy question, but what have you found is the best way to get rid of the grass in an area to make a garden. My husband and I want to move one of our flower gardens to a different spot in the yard, and his idea is just to go in and rototil the area. I’m thinking that we’ll have all the grass in there still though. Any ideas on the best way to cut a flower garden into a lawn? Thanks!! 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
Lay down cardboard to smother the grass. I wrote about it how I did it here. –> http://www.onehundreddollarsamonth.com/use-cardboard-or-newspaper-to-smother-weeds/