edging shears

These strips would allow mowing right to the edge of the lawn and would also allow the edge to be trimmed with edging shears.

I have always used long-handled edging shears that save a lot of grovelling, although you do have to scoop all the bits out of the lawn gully afterwards of course.

Logan is also very good on the precise physical qualities of different hand tools, able to distinguish the snick-snick of his edging shears from the deeper tock-tock of the hedge shears.

They urge me to point readers in the direction of the Clipperbox (from Eden Tools in West Sussex, 0870 422 3466; clipperbox.co.uk), which fixes neatly to the side of edging shears and does the job well, they both say.