TL;DR
Edging restraint is the buried barrier — rolled steel, aluminum, heavy plastic, or set stone — that holds the line between a landscape bed and the lawn, keeping mulch or decorative gravel in and turf rhizomes out. Steel and aluminum take curves and frost heave best; plastic costs less but pops loose if stakes are skimped.
What it means
Edging restraint is the buried barrier — rolled steel, aluminum, heavy plastic, or set stone — that holds the line between a landscape bed and the lawn, keeping mulch or decorative gravel in and turf rhizomes out. Steel and aluminum take curves and frost heave best; plastic costs less but pops loose if stakes are skimped. Installed a few inches deep with the top barely proud of grade, it is the difference between beds that hold their shape and ones that blur into grass by midsummer.
Where it sits in the glossary
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Why Ohio homeowners should know it
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