Cait's Garden

Keeping a purposeful border between our garden and our lawn takes commitment. The lawn is determined to steal back the spaces we’ve claimed from it. So every spring, it’s time to grab the sharp shovel and clean up that edge. When your garden gets big, that’s a lot of edge! I have spent many an hour sitting on the ground, shaking dirt and worms out of chunks of removed turf. One good thing about my borders, they are free-form curves. (See the yellow line in the photo as an example.)  With curves, it is easy to enlarge the garden just enough to fit in one more plant. Or two. Or three. Just bump out the border with another curve! You can’t possibly mess it up; no measuring or mapping out lines is involved; and best of all,  it looks really soft and pretty.