Following up on our quest to be green and finding a solution to the grass edging challenge, I did some web surfing and discovered the following options.
These look like a half circle blade at the end of a long handle with a ledge on the top. To use it, one steps on the edge and the blade sinks. Seems that it would work well for edging grass where there is no curb. With a curb the edger must be offset in order to create a straight cut. Since, our curb is definitely not straight the edge will not likely be a straight edge either and there will be areas with a gap. In fact, this is what was happening when the landscaping crew maintained our yard – there
Miles Kimball offer the “Step Edger” offer what look like an easier method of edging based on using a leg to trim the edge in a walking motion. Interestingly the Step-n-Edge ( http://www.step-n-edge.com/ ) by the inventor looks very similar.