landscape edging - aluminum or steel?

[planton]

greetings-

i'm building some winding gravel paths in my yard and looking for a durable edging product. i don't want to use plastic edging so i've been investigating either steel or aluminum edging.

it seems like the aluminum edging is the current rage and claims to be more durable than steel. i've also seen fiberglass edging out there that claims to be better than aluminum, plastic or steel.

i don't see steel edging being sold on-line or at my local home improvement store. i can imagine that if it was sold on-line the shipping would be quite costly.

so currently i'm leaning tword the aluminum edging and lookign at 2 particular brands-

ShurLOC
http://www.surelocedging.com/forhomeowners.asp

or
Permaloc
http://www.permaloc.com/whyaluminum.html


has anyone used either and have any tips/reccomendations?

if i wanted to find steel edging, where would i look @ the Chicagoland area?

[Stonehenge]

Either company is going to give you an excellent product.

As for locating specific suppliers, I'm not able to help there.

[Greensmith]

I have used both. Steel seems to tolerate the rogue tire going off road better . Aluminum was easier to bend for hard corners.

[scl]

If you contact Permaloc they can give you a local supplier. If none are close they will sell direct and ship to you. Not that expensive to do. I buy my paver edging from them.

Scott

[jntfoster]

I prefer the aluminum becuase its easier to bend and work with but I have had it mangled a bit in a few places from kids playing in the yard.

http://www.ballewlandscapedesign.com

[tom]

I've seen the roll top galvanized steel edging at a couple of the Home Depots out here.

[Honeybee Texas]

try the fiberglass variety. I forget what it's called, but I get it from Home Depot and it comes in a roll. 20 linear feet for $31. It's a little pricy, but flexible and needs to be driven in with a RUBBER mallet. The benefit is that it can be clipped with hand-pruners to size very easily. The con is that it can lean a little unless you strategically snip little grooves with your pruners into the curvatures. You'll see what I mean when you lay it down.