No Digging Necessary: The Amazon Garden Border With An Easy Install

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There are many garden edging ideas for creating a perfect landscape, but none are without their drawbacks. Whether it's creating sharp edges, costing too much, or being labor-intensive to install, you'll never be able to find one that checks all the boxes. But if you're looking for one that's easy to set up, the FunFanso Landscape Edging Border No-Dig Kit from Amazon comes in a variety of lengths, heights, colors, and styles. When you use this edging for backyard projects, like keeping mulch contained around tree rings or installing gravel around a fire pit, there's no digging necessary.

FunFanso's black edging is made from polyethylene, so it can be recycled and won't rust or rot. It gets its color from carbon black, which works as a UV stabilizer. This no-dig kit includes two 33-foot long sections of 2-inch-tall black edging and costs $26.99 at the time of writing. Regularly priced at $32.99, it's also available in green and brown.

The kit comes with 100 spikes, and the edging has holes about every 8 inches to help with creating curves (the key with any no-dig landscape edging installation is to pound the stakes in evenly so that the edging doesn't look wavy). With over 1,100 ratings, the FunFanso no-dig edging has earned 4.4 out of five stars; however, how well this product will work in your yard depends on the type of soil you have and what you need it to do.

Edging with a 2-inch lip should keep mulch from shifting around a tree ring, and it's also enough to keep gravel in place on a stepping stone path or around a fire pit area. However, if you have raised beds that slope down to a gravel path, the FunFanso no-dig edging may not be enough to prevent the soil and mulch from moving about. Such flexible edging, though, would be an ideal solution for annual flower beds that take different shapes every year; and, if you've never used edging, a product like FunFanso's, at about 50 cents per foot (i.e., $32.99 for 66 feet), is affordable enough to try without making a big financial commitment on materials.

To determine how much edging you'll need, use a hose or rope to mark where the border will go, then measure that and get the kit that's sized right for your project. Another genius tip for installing landscaping edging like this is to pre-soak it in the sun to make it more pliant — especially for those garden bed curves. Also, one of the most common complaints about this type of edging is that the plastic stakes break.

Spikes are easiest to install when the ground is moist, but some soil types require you to go a step further. In such cases, test the soil with a screwdriver first, and if you have to use a hammer to get it in the ground, pre-drill a hole (like a pilot hole) in the soil using a masonry bit that's slightly smaller than the stake.