I have to do edging. My place was already landscaped and my property is
divided into 5 sections. My property is about 3/4 acre but it is 465ft
deep and runs along an unopened road allowance so there is an extra
strip about 20 feet wide, so that makes it more than an acre. There is a
15"inch stone wall that runs from the road, dips in for a parking area
and then around the patio. The house was built in stages. They added an
extension straight back from the original building. Later on they added
again but perpendicular to the previous part making it L shaped. Later
on there was a third extension going back, and another stone wall, but
this one on an angle. It is aesthetically pleasing but a PITA to mow.
So that is the front and back yard. There is a stream that runs through
that back yard. Then there is a section with a barn and former paddock
area. The stream /ditch then bends 90 degrees and runs along the
property line to the second stream. A row of trees separates that
paddock area (now lawn) from the fourth section. On the other side of
that second stream there is a tapered section, a row of trees along the
property line and a number of trees in the rest of it. There are
roughly 45 trees in total.
The place came like this. If I were to have down the original
landscaping it would have been done a lot differently. It looks nice,
but it is takes a lot of extra work and time.
FWIW, I mowed today. I went around first with a self propelled mower to
do along the tops and bottoms of the stonewalls, around the trees, part
way down into the stream. Then I went out with the tractor mower. I
need to go out with the line trimmer. Between trimming around the house,
the barn, the stone walls, the ditches and around the trees it is going
to take me more than an hour.