Installing edging along a sidewalk sounds simple until you're standing over the strip of soil between your sidewalk and the curb, wondering what actually can hold a wood border in place.

Four homeowners, all working with garden strips beside a sidewalk, used 2x4 lumber and 2xEDGE Staples instead of plastic, rubber, or metal strip edging. They each called their projects different things (a parkway strip, a curb-side bed, a flower bed running beside a concrete sidewalk). And they each skipped the shovel every time. 2xEDGE doesn't require digging a trench.

Here's how their projects turned out including the one problem almost everyone installing edging beside a concrete sidewalk runs into: concrete in places you don't expect it.