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The best way is with a diamond blade water cooled cut off saw you can rent. Second is if you have an old saw, you can get a masonry blade. Be sure to wear a dust mask, the dust is harmful to your lungs.

2006-04-29 13:17:56 by bslund

Installation of Concrete Landscape Edging/Curbing by Borderwerx LLC of Minnesota

You have to advertise to the end users of your product via the newspaper or other forms of advertisement. You could also talk to nurseries and landscape companies who could recommend your product to their customers. You could install your edging at a house in a new subdivision give the homeowner a discount if they allow you to put up a yard sign.

2009-08-03 15:09:18 by bill v

I am interested to learn how to lay concrete brick as an edging in a landscaping bed. I have checked
on the internet for some websites but am always directed to large scale projects such as building patios and walkways. I know this cannot be difficult to do as long as everything is level and I believe that limestone should be used also? This project will be going around the patio area. Thanks for whatever information you can give me.

It all depends on how much time and money you want to spend as well as how durable you want it to be. There are several ways to do it.

If you want to line them up on their ends like soldiers, you should dig a small trench with the front of the trench being vertical and the back at an angle. Then just place the bricks in line next to each other and make them level. If you are really concerned that they all be level, you can run a string between stakes and use a line level that hangs on the string.

There are several variations on this style, you can place them side by side with the wide dimension facing out or with the narrow dimension facing out. You can also lay them at an angle for a sort of herring bone effect.

You can also dig a narrow trench the width of a brick and place them lying down end to end. Again, you can put the wide dimension up or the narrow dimension up, whichever you prefer.

A more durable installation, but probably overkill is to place some sand or pea gravel under the bricks.

Good Luck and Happy Gardening!

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2007-05-07 05:47:40 by PsychoSam

There's probably three years or so of water damage due to poor landscaping in the house we just bought. I've fixed the landscaping problem, and no more water is coming in, but there's some pretty nasty stains left on the concrete (darker near the center, white around the edges). I've tried pumice and a wire brush with limited success. Any ideas?

use CRL it will take out the stains, you can get it at most home improvement stores, like Home
Depot and Lowe's

2006-07-06 05:34:58 by silverbeetle

We're changing our red mulch to rock and are trying to figure out what color/type of rock would go best with our home. We're also adding concrete edging and some more flowers (we're in Minnesota). I'm so bad at this and would love some expert opinions. Our house is cream/linen with blue shutters and a "weathered gray" roof, which is actually dark brown looking.

We were considering lava rock pebbles (burnt red), Colorado sunrise stone (creams, whites, and browns), or Mountain Blend stone (mix with slight reds, tans, grays), but we haven't really looked at places with a ton of selection and aren't set on anything.

For flowers, I was thinking reds, yellows, and blues/purples; however, a neighbor had a mx of pinks, whites, yellows, and purples that looked cute and cheery.

Also, the edging can have several colors in it, so I want to tie it in with everything. Any suggestions?
HELP! Any advice is truly appreciated. The BEST answer gets a batch of 7-Layer bars sent to them.
If you want a picture of our home, I can e-mail it to you. I really will send some 7-layer bars to the person who has the BEST answer, meaning suggestions for rock and flower color schemes. I make awesome bars (or I can make cookies or brownies for you instead) This means a lot to us, so thank you!

Hi... I like either the second or third rock mix... not the solid red one. The lava rock sounds a little harsh colored.

I would recommend a multi-season plan. Here's one that I think would look lovely:

Spring: Plant a bed full of all types of daffodils, with patches that bloom very early, early, mid, and late season. Choose some that are bright yellow, some bicolors... look through the bulb selections and go wild. When you plant these, also plant a LOT of blue grape hyacinths. You plant the daffies deep, and then fill with dirt, and poke grape hyacinths in RIGHT in among them. About 3 grape hyacinths per daffodil. When this blooms, it will be like a sea of blue with yellow above. It's a lovely combination. Also, the critters Do Not Eat either of these! And they multiply season after season, so you can put them in spaced a bit this year, next year you'll have more, and the third year it'll really come into its own.

Summer: Put in some perennials. I would recommend some campanula (bluebells) in blue and white. The blue will be great with your house, and the whites are pretty too. Tuck in some pinks (dianthus), both the taller biennial Sweet William and the perennial clove pinks, which are good for the edges. Add a clump of iris (they come in many colors and you can choose some to match your house) for early summer, and a clump or two of daylilies for late (try a yellow patch with the tall Hyperion (scented) in back and the shorter reblooming Stella de Oro in front. Or go for cream and pink.

Fall: Make sure you buy some mums! Small pots of mums are a great value if you're planting for permanent gardens. You can get them in summer and place them in groups, then you have the blooms all autumn, and every year after. You can get great colors... and you can change your color scheme to rusts, deep burgandies, harvest golds and oranges for the season. Add a few Autumn Sedum.

All Season: Fill in your perennial garden with annuals. You can change your colors every year if you like. I love petunias for the color range and the fact that they spread out and fill areas well. I adore the tall pink cosmos, too, for filling in the back of a garden that's newly planted.

All of these work in my zone 5 New Hampshire garden, and should be ok in your area too.

2007-08-08 20:42:38 by happee