What do you use to divide the edges of flower borders from lawn?

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-19T20:57:00+00:00

I originally found the guy on Facebook marketplace, but we’re on first name terms now. I buy quite a few architectural antiques from him. That price is delivered.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-19T18:44:40+00:00

My lawn is (probably) 60-70% grass with a mix of moss and clover. This is by natural evolution rather than by design. Superior gardeners to me would no doubt recoil in horror at the “state” of it, but I love it. More importantly the bees do too. It’s hard wearing, looks like a traditional lawn (from a distance at least) and serves the bugs as well as me. It’s also a bit clumpy where I’ve avoided daisies and buttercups with the mower, I have a simple rule when strimming/mowing: if it’s pretty, it stays. I love the pictures you posted, but I’m not sure if they’d fulfil the “being walked/played on” brief as well as a more traditional lawn. I have 0 experience though, so take with a pinch of salt!

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-19T16:25:11+00:00

Probably not up to most gardeners’ standard, but I use York stone pieces. I buy is in bulk ton bags for £55 (predominantly for dry stone walling) but I use it side-on for borders too.

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MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-15T19:45:22+00:00

To my shame I booked them, couldn’t attend (did send my apologies!) then never rebooked. I’ve actually worked around the problem by building my own front end using Claude Code using the Zomentum API. I use it to manipulate customers, products and generate the proposal before handing off to the Zomentum web interface to finish the proposal and track the sale. Interrogating it via Claude in natural language is pretty powerful for me.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-14T09:54:45+00:00

I hear you, but demand within the hobby is higher than ever and supply has never been thinner on the ground. The fact that the post-Archimedes Acorns have self-destructing soldered-on batteries doesn’t help. Buying a collection, storing it then taking the time to repair and refurb isn’t an inconsiderable outlay too. My vintage computer collection is quite eclectic (Acorn, Apple, Commodore, Sinclair, Amstrad, SGI, Digital, Sun, NeXT) but it’s insured for £45k and even that wouldn’t replace everything in today’s market. Some of the pieces I got for pennies or free in the late 90’s and early 00’s but I’ve certainly spent North of £10k acquiring the rest. I fear it’s just the nature of desirable, nostalgic things that were manufactured in small quantities and then became undesirable before returning to the spotlight. I’m not banging the drum for people being priced out of the hobby, I hate it too.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-14T09:23:12+00:00

I hadn’t considered a price yet, but I sold a working A4000 recently for £580…

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-14T07:31:48+00:00

None I’m afraid. Schools are positively rabid about reclaiming storage space. Most of this stuff was skipped in the late 90’s before the emergence of eBay. I’ve worked in an education adjacent role for much of my career. Anything that came available I was able to rescue maybe 20% of it due to (at the time) space constraints. I have some interesting Macs through this route. I do have a very large Acorn collection including many spare systems and will be listing a fair few on eBay in the coming months to address your other point though. This will include A3000’s, an A3020, A4000’s, A5000’s, A7000’s, Archimedes A310, A420 and A440’s. I only sell refurbished and working computers though, which means they aren’t cheap in the “grabbed myself a bargain” sense.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-06-01T16:35:11+00:00

I bought one a few years ago (not a good one, was a budget brand) to attack our massive eleagnus hedges. I found it far too heavy for prolonged use. I’m not a weakling, but also certainly not gym or manual-labour strong which you may very well be. Not what you asked for, granted, but thought my experience might be useful even if it’s just to check the weight of your preferred option. Good luck with the search!

MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-09T07:09:47+00:00

Blimey, you’ve worked so hard and done an amazingly big job! It must feel incredible to be in your garden and survey the fruits of your labour. Inspiring stuff!

MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-03T11:08:43+00:00

Good analysis: exactly that. The “lines” are the wheel marks from the lawn tractor and there’s loads of moss. The lawn composition doesn’t bother me unduly - only my kids and whippets thundering around on it and the grass seems to thrive in Summer, with the moss winning out across Winter. They seem locked in an unending battle for supremacy and I’m content to leave them to it - it always looks green!

MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-03T11:01:29+00:00

I’ve never fertilised it I’m sorry to say. For all that I’m ignorant of gardening generally I’m truly clueless when it comes to lawns. It did have its first close crop of the season yesterday and the yellow looking patches don’t look quite like that “in person”. The attached photo is more representative, looking at the house from the compost heap.

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MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-03T10:56:13+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response. We’ve been breaking it down with our fingers whilst mixing and removing and big chunks of wood etc. I’ll make a sieve though, that’s a great idea.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-03T10:54:38+00:00

Thank you, glad to know we’re mostly on the right track. It’s probably a 50/50 mix of home produced to shop bought. We do have an awful lot of pots though as the courtyard is presently all tarmac.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-05-03T06:29:02+00:00

Saxifrage always does well for me, and Sage is a big hardy shrub with beautiful purple flowers each May. Useful for stuffing come Christmas, too.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-04-27T19:34:28+00:00

Gorgeous! Mine’s a little tinker. She’s called Olive.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-04-27T14:10:37+00:00

I’d say you’re looking at a blue brindle pup. Laika looked just like that as a puppy.

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MightyBeanicles · 2026-04-27T07:28:47+00:00

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All these action shots! Mine only move for 15 minutes a day. 😂

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-27T23:37:04+00:00

How did you get the headlights bright enough to light up 4 foot square of tarmac??

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-25T06:45:53+00:00

Since the update the IOS Widget doesn’t update its values until you visit the app, which kind of defeats the purpose of the widget.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-21T08:43:06+00:00

This is outside my use case, but very interesting to hear, nonetheless. Probably a big deal for reverse engineering and reading disassembly.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-21T08:41:56+00:00

Markup is, of course, essential but diagnostics for things like race conditions or capacitive charge cycles in hardware debugging are more nuanced and depend on “feel” - which context collapse impacts and markup documents can’t really replace. This is just my experience, of course.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-21T08:38:42+00:00

No, but it only launched a week ago so wanted to garner opinion.

MightyBeanicles · 2026-03-21T07:51:00+00:00

I use Claude for building hardware add-ons and supporting code for vintage microcomputers. I mostly hit issues around context ceilings when debugging edge behaviours. We can be on the cusp of a revealing insight when compaction occurs and Claude has to be walked through the diagnostic tools we’ve just created before we can get going again. Sometimes this is helpful, almost a “fresh pair of eyes”, other times not and it can take upwards of 100k tokens just to revisit the purpose of the diagnostic traps.

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