Hey, Mike I just wanted to say that you are very professional and I enjoyed listening to you talk so eloquently without stuttering, saying like, umm, uhh or anything of the sort. You're awesome, I enjoyed the video and keep up the good work.
My daddy, may God rest his soul, showed me the proper technique for a nice bit of edging.. he was showing me the right way of holding and using a spade when he first fell ill with the cancer, God bless him. It struck fast and without warning, but i developed my form, and became so skilled at thrusting my spade during these late night and early morning edge sessions, all while my pops was suffering, driving all the way to Denver for the 7 long months of chemo he had to undergo. My skills grew, and my mind split a little along with my heart -- i became convinced i could use the spade to edge my dad back to health, but he succumbed and in the summer of 2002, he left this world. Mulch in hand, every morning, i edge for you Dad. I love you, may God rest your soul. Thank you for this video, it brought back such wonderful memories 😢❤
Mike, I can't thank you enough for posting this. I knew it was possible for me to do an edging job by myself and thanks to you and this video I am going to do just that. Good luck to you and your business.
I just bought a property with seven nightmare huge pines, the previous owners never changed out their pine straw and just stacked over it for years and the trees ended up with that volcano mulch look, it was so compacted I dug down two feet still finding rotten pine straw with dirt. The root structure is in bad shape because they circled the trunk. Instead of roots sprawling, this ended up giving it a weak root structure. I have been working on it for weeks trying to get it back in shape, I see so many houses with volcano mulch, most people have no idea what that does to a tree.
Learn something every day. I have cut well over 40,000 yards and I just got square point for edges. I used to turn the weed eater sideways and turn my leg brown.
Nice vid. The short D strap handle steel edging shovel (aka king of spayds from AM Leonard) is even more professional. In decent soils, for maintenance not new, I can edge just about as fast as a machine. It's better to place yout left foot inside the bed line and dig in then turn the shovel at a 90 to the bed counter clockwise to eject the edging soil...... instead of kicking it out like this guy is doing. Field marking paint is a time saver for new beds, that way the crew can edge and you can properly prune.
You should also use a rope to get the whole edge line then spray paint with orange paint that way your line is right from the beginning no eyeing it. The shovel you use is called a spade.
The Crew thanks for your input. The bed was already made, just had grass (specifically poa, a winter annual) grown in around the edge you see. The term "flat shovel" is for those not familiar with what a spade may be or mistake the term for a standard curved dirt shovel. Thanks for the critiques 👍
Now this is more like it. All these video's of the bed edgers and redefiners are a joke. A 2 inch grove is not an edge for bark or mulch. I personally go way beyond what you even do by first making the line with my power trim edger and then I dig out at least a one foot wide and 4 inch deep gully that tapers up. Then I can fill it with bark.
