I love working outdoors so naturally I spend a good chunk of time searching the web for information on garden machines and other tools such as garden edgers. I came across this question posted by “Sand Man” on Yahoo! Answers.

“What would be the best tool for garden edgers?”

With my interest aroused I clicked over to the web page from my news reader program. Unfortunately there were only two answers: a spade and Roundup. Disappointed, I closed the window and went back to my news reader.

While both answers that were given were good ones neither one worked well for me. I like to keep my sidewalks edged nicely and I have over 100 feet of sidewalk and driveway. A hand spade was not going to cut it for me.

I don’t like using Roundup either because I pride my lawn and garden on being 100% organic. I didn’t want to be edging my sidewalks with a chemical that will kill any plant it touches. One stray breeze and I would have dead, wilting plants all around me.

Now I was determined to find some good garden machines that could edge a sidewalk nicely. I browsed over to Google and did some searching around. After a few searches I came across a really nice guide to hedge trimmers and edgers.

I found that a power edger is the answer to my question. A power edger is a device with a vertical rotating blade, sort of like a lawn mower turned on it’s side.

The best part about the power garden edger is that it will allow me to edge all my sidewalks and driveway in a fraction of the time that it would have taken me with a hand spade or shears and I don’t use to use noxious chemicals to achieve the same effect.

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