Overgrown Garden Bed Replaced with Sod and Pavers in Tooele
A weed-choked bed along two fence lines became open lawn with a paver mow strip that makes edging easy.
This Tooele backyard had a long planting bed wrapping the corner where two fences meet. Weeds, dead shrubs and ornamental grass gone wild had claimed it over the years, and the bed made mowing and trimming a weekly headache.
We started by clearing everything out — the dead growth, the overgrown grasses and the old edging — down to bare ground.
Next came proper ground prep so the new lawn would root evenly, then fresh sod across the old bed. Along the fence line we set a row of pavers as a mow strip.
That paver border is the detail that makes the yard easy to live with. Instead of a thin strip of grass jammed against the fence that a mower can’t reach, the wheel rides on the pavers and the trimmer barely comes out.
The homeowners went from fighting a dead garden bed to a full, even lawn with clean edges — a low-maintenance yard that suits Tooele’s dry summers.