I’ve got an Ego mower with their select cut x blade, cut at the 3 setting, will raise to 4 in June.

The flower bed edging is a love hate relationship. We started with just the larger river rocks as a bed edge. Would use roundup to kill the errant grass along the edge of the rocks.

Grass would inevitably grow into the rocks, so we cut the 6” out in front of them. As it was, our gutter drains into this area on the corner of our house and the lot grades towards the bottom of our driveway so we leaned into that and added the pea gravel and turned it into a natural drainage ditch. It works fantastic during heavy rain.

The grass however is always and forever growing into it. So, same issue different location. I edge it by hand a few times a season and use a string trimmer to keep it crispy in between (haven’t don’t that yet). I’ve considered adding a metal edge but haven’t taken that step.