The holiday season can make us all a little edgy. You may love the music at the beginning of the season, but by the time you hear Santa Baby, Silent Night, or Last Christmas for the 90th time, you’ve probably had enough. Likewise, the pressure to get the right gifts, make every party, and maintain the image of perfection gets to everyone, even if you’re looking forward to a Holly Jolly Christmas.

But EKG provides edging that will take the edge off some of the holiday prep pressure and do your heart some good because some edginess can be positive, at least regarding your Midlothian landscaping.

So why edge as part of your lawn maintenance? Here are the reasons your true love sends to you.

A Portrait Frame for Your Trees

One of the main reasons that we edge our property is to keep our garden beds looking lovely. A distinct line stuns, creating a frame for the picturesque elements of your landscape, like your flowers, shrubs, and trees. Lines draw the eyes to these elements of your landscaping where you want others to focus – like one gorgeous tree!

Save Your Hands

Because edging helps to prevent weeds, it also means less time for you to spend on your hands and knees keeping up with your garden and pulling weeds. A task that saves time and effort while making your trees and flowers look better? Two hands are great this time of year, but more makes things merrier.

To Keep Out Weeds

Edging creates a root barrier for weeds. When there’s a clear line, it’s more difficult for weeds to make it into your garden. The edge we’ve dug in is hard to hop. After all, where there are three or four weeds lurking, there are bound to be more.

Concentric Rings, For Keeping Bord(er)s

Getting creative with your landscaping is easier when everything stays in place. Want to create gardens of concentric rings? Edging will help keep the borders around your gardens and other landscaping elements intact, so you don’t have to worry about your beautiful work fading through time. Who doesn’t love five concentric rings?

So Curb Appealing

While beauty can be argued that it’s in the eye of the beholder, there is no debate that money talks! And adding edging to your landscaping also increases your property value. Any of six amazing realtors will tell you the importance of curb appeal when selling a home.

While you may not be looking to move out anytime soon with your eight maids a-milking, adding value to your property is always positive. And keeping your property up now is easier than trying to do everything just before a move – to a new beautiful space to put your seven swans a-swimming.

No Lawn Infringing

Nine ladies dancing on a property where they may be tripped up by lawn infringement can be rough! How can we help make sure there isn’t a puddle of dancing ladies?

We’ve been focused on gardens, but what about your grass? Of course, you don’t want your grass to go into your garden, but you also don’t want your gardens getting into your lawn.

Your clear edge will help to keep your mulch out of the grass and plants from your garden from invading your lawn. Clear lines benefit everyone. Surely you’ve heard about the importance of setting boundaries.

Helps to Protect Pavement

Your driveway is another crucial part of your property. When people visit, they pull up to the house and park, and the driveway is the first place they set foot. Since it’s the first impression, you don’t want them to see ten or eleven annoying cracks.

When of the main ways driveways get cracks is from plants growing. You do a lot to prevent those plants from breaking into your pavement when you edge. That saves you the money of early replacement.

Less Time Than Trimming

While you can also take the time to trim the grass with a trimmer when the lawn can’t get to it, it takes more time and precision. Creating an edge is comparatively easier and saves you time later since it is also preventative. Trimming is still necessary for places where your mower can’t go, but there’s no reason to trim when an edge will do. This could save you at LEAST 12 hours a year!

Living on the Edge?

So now you know what an edge brings to your landscaping table. When you edge your property, it not only improves it but makes it easier to maintain. It’s like falling in love with your favorite Christmas song all over again.

We hope as your true landscaping love, EKG sent you enough tips to fill your heart with joy and cheer to last you until the new year!