Easy Landscape Edging

Whether you’re isolating flowerbeds, building a multi-tiered wall, or putting in a walkway, the patented Frame It All system makes installing elegant landscape edging a snap. You’ll only need a few tools and a little time to give your yard a professional landscaper’s touch.

What you’ll need:
In addition to your Frame It All Composite Timbers, Anchor Joints, Stacking Joints, and Finishing Sleeves, the only things you’ll need are a level, a hammer, a tape measure, a screwdriver (electric or battery operated preferred) and possibly a saw.

Step 1: Mark off your border
Using stakes and string or simply laying out a garden hose in the desired shape, design your landscape edging pattern.

Step 2: Determine your materials
Measure and plan your required materials. Remember, the flexible Anchor and Stacking Joints from Frame It All enable you to achieve many designs and shapes. Measure the distance between joints to determine the length in inches of Composite Timbers you’ll need. Our timbers come in 44.5” lengths, to make an exact four-feet from stake to stake which makes estimating easy. They can also be easily cut down, to the sizes required for your design.

Step 3: Assemble Timbers and Joints
If necessary, cut your Composite Timbers to the sizes needed. Remember to include 3.5” in your calculations to account for the stakes when cutting timbers to smaller sizes. Now slide your Composite Timber into the channel end of one of the brackets until it is centered and flush on all sides. Use the supplied screws to fasten the Composite Timber to the bracket as shown in diagram 1. Repeat this process on the opposite end of the Composite Timber flipping the bracket in the opposite direction as pictured in diagram 2 (this will save you time later). Repeat this process until all of your Composite Timbers are fully bracketed on both ends. Lay them out with the Anchor and Stacking Joints; in the pattern you’ve determined, to be sure you have all pieces correctly prepped.

Step 4: Dig a trench.
For a natural appearance, dig a narrow trench at least a few inches into the ground. You’ll set your landscape edging into this shallow trench, back-filling it as necessary with dirt to achieve a level border. By placing a few inches below the ground, the edging will have a natural, seamless, integration with your lawn, garden beds, patio or walkways. 

Step 5: Laying The Frame
Lay out the base level of your design with stake fins facing up as shown in diagram 3. Design adjustments should now be done if needed. Once the desired position of base level is achieved, turn stake fins facing down and hammer stakes into ground see diagram 4 (Note: Do not fasten cap unless level is finished). Do not hammer stake in too deep as this will prevent the caps from snapping into the stakes. Check for level.

Step 5: Stack Your Edging
If a taller design is desired, slide a second stake into all of the exposed tops of the in-ground level 1 stakes and put the level 2 Composite Timbers in place until level two is completed. See diagram 5 & 6 (Note: You can continue stacking additional levels until reaching your desired height).

Step 6: Finish
To finish the appearance of each joint and to secure the brackets over the stake, push or tap the supplied caps into the tops of the stakes until they snap in place. See diagram 7.

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