Landscape edging gives your lawn and garden beds a clean, professional look, much like how a good lawn edger adds a polished feel to the overall appearance of your lawn. It also helps prevent weeds and their harmful roots from creeping in where you don’t want them and keeps landscaping elements like mulch, gravel and soil from migrating to other parts of your lawn. Tackling DIY landscaping projects yourself can be a time-consuming and physically demanding task, so it’s important to choose the best product for your specific needs. Whether you’re in the market for a basic and affordable option or have more to spend on decorative edging, read on for recommendations that suit every job and budget.
BEST OVERALL
- Flexible
- Easy to install
Key Specs
- Length: 100 feet
- Height: 1.7 inches
- Material: Plastic
- Color: Black
- Pieces: 1
For quality and overall value, it’s tough to beat this commercial-grade, no-dig option. Constructed of flexible, water-resistant, heavy-duty plastic, this versatile edging can be used for everything from raised beds to vegetable gardens, plus it cuts easily with shears so you can customize its length. The kit comes with five connectors and forty 8-inch nylon spiral spikes for installation. The edging is also available in standard and tall heights, plus shorter lengths of 20, 40, and 90 feet.
- Low price
- Easy to cut
- Can be used to create tree rings
- Somewhat challenging to install
Key Specs
- Length: 40 feet
- Height: 5 inches
- Material: Plastic
- Color: Black
- Pieces: 1
If you want affordable edging that’ll get the job done—especially if you have a lot of ground to cover and need to keep costs down—this is a solid choice. Made of high-density black polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, Amazon Basics’ landscape flexible edging is designed for both straight and curved placement. The 40-foot piece of edging is five inches high and one inch thick, and is priced at a reasonable $47 at the time of this writing.
