Here's how it works: Hames' crew will remove the sod in the area where the border will go, tamp down the base, install 3- to 4-inch concrete "footers" every foot or so, then pour a strip of ...

So far, about 80 percent of their business has been residential with a focus on garden beds, landscape edging, walkways and garden paths, and custom decorative concrete patios.

Homeowners can also give the concrete border a customized color by adding one 10-ounce bottle of liquid cement color per 80-pound bag of crack resistant concrete mix before pouring.

Nov. 21—You may have noticed that the easiest landscape beds to maintain are those surrounded by concrete. For instance, most homes have a concrete walk between the driveway and the front door ...

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Worth a look: Easy Flex Pound-in Landscape Edging (4.5-in. high x 20-ft. long) This flexible, hammer-in edging is a simple option for marking off garden territory.

The concrete mixture is fed into the bed edger, which extrudes a continuous landscape border. “We go right behind the machine,” Scott said. The wet cement then dries on the prepared ground.

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