Landscape edging system
A landscape edging system forms landscape edging by connecting landscape edging units end-to-end and securing them to ground. The landscape edging system includes landscape edging units, a landscape edging end connector, and landscape spikes. The end connector has first and second legs that define lower spike receivers. The first and second landscape edging units define fitting recesses below upper spike receivers. The legs of the end connector are press-fit into the fitting recesses of adjacent landscape edging units to establish mortise-and-tenon connections between the end connector and the landscape edging units. This aligns the upper and lower spike receivers so that first and second landscape spikes can be driven through a first pair of aligned upper and lower spike receivers and a second pair of aligned upper and lower spike receivers, respectively, into the ground.
1 . A landscape edging system for removably installing a landscape edging unit on ground as landscape edging, wherein the landscape edging system comprises:
a first landscape edging unit comprising an edging unit end portion defining a fitting recess and an upper spike receiver aligned with the fitting recess;
a landscape edging end connector comprising a fitting body having a first fitting end portion and a second fitting end portion configured to be spaced apart along a lengthwise direction of the landscape edging, the first fitting end portion defining a first lower spike receiver and the second fitting end portion defining a second lower spike receiver, the first fitting end portion is configured to be fitted into the fitting recess of the edging unit end portion of the first landscape edging unit such that the first lower spike receiver aligns with the upper spike receiver of the first landscape edging unit;
a first landscape spike configured to be driven through the upper spike receiver of the first landscape edging unit and through the first lower spike receiver of the landscape edging end connector into the ground;
wherein the fitting recess comprises a lower portion opening lengthwise through the edging unit end portion and a mortise portion extending upward from the lower portion along a vertical axis, wherein the edging unit end portion extends circumferentially around the mortise portion.
2 . The landscape edging system of claim 1 , wherein the first landscape edging unit comprises one or more material reduction recesses configured to reduce an amount of material within the first landscape edging unit.
3 . The landscape edging system of claim 2 , wherein the fitting recess is a different size and shape than each of the one or more material reduction recesses.
4 . The landscape edging system of claim 3 , wherein the first landscape edging unit is formed of compressible and flexible material.
5 . The landscape edging system of claim 3 , wherein the first landscape edging unit is formed from recycled tire rubber.
6 . The landscape edging system of claim 3 , wherein the edging unit end portion extends 360 degrees about the mortise portion with respect to the vertical axis.
7 . The landscape edging system of claim 6 , wherein the first fitting end portion comprises a tenon leg configured to be friction-fit into the mortise portion as a tenon into a mortise.
8 . The landscape edging system of claim 1 , wherein when the first fitting end portion is fitted into the fitting recess, the second fitting end portion protrudes lengthwise from the edging unit end portion for reception in another fitting recess of another landscape edging unit.
9 . The landscape edging system of claim 1 , wherein the first fitting end portion comprises a tenon portion configured to be fitted into the mortise portion to make a mortise and tenon connection, the mortise and tenon connection configured to constrain the fitting body from moving lengthwise of the landscape edging in relation to the first landscape edging unit independent of the first landscape spike.
10 . The landscape edging system of claim 1 , wherein the fitting body comprises a base extending from the first fitting end portion to the second fitting end portion, a first leg standing upright from the base at the first fitting end portion and a second leg standing upright from the base at the second fitting end portion.
11 . The landscape edging system of claim 10 , wherein each of the first and second legs comprises a tenon leg configured to be received in the respective fitting recess as a tenon into a mortise whereby each of the first and second legs couples to the first and second landscape edging units by friction-fit.
12 . The landscape edging system of claim 10 , wherein the first and second legs are spaced apart lengthwise such that the fitting body defines a central gap between the first and second legs.
13 . The landscape edging system of claim 12 , wherein the fitting body is configured to receive portions of each of the first landscape edging unit and another landscape edging unit in the central gap.
14 . The landscape edging system of claim 10 , wherein the base defines a bottom of the fitting body, the first leg defines a first top and the second leg defines a second top, the first lower spike receiver comprising a hole extending from the first top through the bottom and the second lower spike receiver comprising a hole extending from the second top through the bottom.
15 . The landscape edging system of claim 1 , wherein the fitting body is more rigid than the first and second landscape edging units.