Concrete Stones for Edging

Pick a Style

• Decide on a type of concrete edging stone. You can use interlocking concrete stones to build small garden edging walls, or you can set individual concrete stones in a line to mark a flower bed or pathway. You can adapt concrete stones used for wall facing and similar construction to make a garden or pathway edge by laying the stones partly below ground level in dirt or a sand base.

Make Your Own

• Make your own concrete edging stones for individuality. Buy forms or molds, mix concrete and pour it into the molds. Let it cure, then install it like you would commercial pavers. Be creative; mix colors in the concrete to resemble real stones, or build your own forms out of wood or plastic edging in any shape you wish.

Dig a Trench

• Install concrete edging stones by digging a trench along the boundary you want to edge. Make it deep enough so the concrete stones are buried firmly and won't tilt or move when a rainstorm hits. Set the stones together, or put them in mortar to hold them more securely. Build a mortar base by digging a trench and filling it with concrete or mortar, and set stones into it.

Mix Sizes and Shapes

• Build a more-realistic type of concrete stone edge by varying the size and shape of the concrete stones. Interlocking stones don't work well this way, because they're made in formal shapes, but artificial facing or homemade stones can be randomized to look like an arrangement of real stones. Many artificial stones are almost as varied as real ones.

Make a Fake

• You can pour a solid concrete edging curb but leave the edges rough and inscribe lines to look like stone or mortar joints. This will create an appearance of stones laid as edging without laying individual pieces. Use plastic edging for forms to pour this type of concrete stone edging; this is easier than building wooden forms and will produce a more-random stonelike surface.