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We removed the lawn around our raised garden beds so we wouldn’t have to mow around them.?
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What should we put down around the beds now that is easy to walk on, won’t blow away and won’t be too permanent in case we decide to garden the whole area?

I went to a brick retail store and purchased 3" X 3" bricks. Dug trench around my planting area and placed the bricks in that trench at ground level. The mower blade goes over the bricks, gave a neat, trimmed appearance and not permanent.

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5 Comments for 'We removed the lawn around our raised garden beds so we wouldn’t have to mow around them.?'

  1.  
    lcritter55118
    July 14, 2009 | 10:44 am
     

    I would put mulch down. It will decompose over a couple years should you decide to put in a garden you can just mix it in with the dirt.
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    zirconsphinx
    July 14, 2009 | 11:28 am
     

    what about rocks? it will look good especially if you planted flowers on the flower beds
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  3.  
    Kris L
    July 14, 2009 | 11:55 am
     

    Get concrete squares, circles, or rectangles and as much tiny ‘ground cover’ as you can afford. Mulch (generally redwood bark) will leach the minerals from the soil, and rocks are really difficult to remove … the ground covers that are tiny both smell really good when stepped on and can be pulled up easily, and those ’stepping stones’ can be moved and rearranged as your garden changes …
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    Carole Q
    July 14, 2009 | 12:41 pm
     

    I went to a brick retail store and purchased 3" X 3" bricks. Dug trench around my planting area and placed the bricks in that trench at ground level. The mower blade goes over the bricks, gave a neat, trimmed appearance and not permanent.
    References :

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    5 more weeks till #3
    July 14, 2009 | 1:15 pm
     

    Why not put in a walkway around the garden? Get some bricks and lay it out about 4 feet away from the edge of the garden bed and do it on all sides. Then get some stepping stones and some gravel and you have yourself a walkway.
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