Question about bed edging.....

[Albery's Lawn & Tractor]

When you re-edge an existing flowerbed do you just edge and let the dirt lay on top of the existing ground cover (ex: mulch or pinestraw) or do you take the extra time to rake back the old ground cover, edge, then cover up the dirt with old ground cover then re-mulch? I've always done the first one, but today a customer asked why not do it the second way, the only answer I could give was no need to as you can't tell the difference after new mulch is layed. After the job was done they agreed but it got me wondering.

[TNT LawnCare Inc.]

We dont rake out the old edge,the dirt compacts down and the new mulch like you said covers it up anyway.

[Green Pastures]

I rake the dirt back over the old mulch....

[robertb_44]

I agree, but would rake the old mulch back if it was a good paying customer and we weren't going to mulch it for several weeks.

[Trenchblade]

you should check out www.trenchblade.com and see if that thing would be something that could work better that how you are doing bed edging presently.

[Superior L & L]

Trench master bed edger from brown manufacturing is the only way to go