Landscaping - Bank Edging Replacement

Hi All

My garden has a bank at the rear and on one of the sides which has been edged with fencing posts, probably when the house was built 26 years ago or soon after.

Some have rotted and I am looking to replace the edging in it's entirety ideally with something similar. The bank does not have a straight edge, there are several curves, which is presumably one of the reasons why fence posts were used.

Fence posts have also been used to edge the borders and 'lawn' (green expanse of moss). At their highest they are I guess 18" to 24" high, but they vary in height as the bank slopes to the lawn. At the lawn they protrude a couple of inches.

I want to retain the curves so my idea is to replace the posts with something similar. I suspect it is not easy to extract the existing posts, and I also expect most will break under the soil - there are quite a lot of them.

Any thoughts on how to extract them and what to replace them with?
The door to the side passage is about 30"' wide so not sure that I will get a mini-digger through.

Your sage advice is appreciated.

 

@BOSullivan - your pics look like log rolls attached to wire at the back to me. If that is so, it should be easy to just pull the whole lot up, they are not usually inserted deeply into the ground.

As to what to replace them with, as you have curves, it's probably going to be easier and cheaper just to replace them with similar but try to get some good quality ones so that they last a bit longer. It would be too time consuming to hit in individual posts in a row. Have a look on the internet.

 

Hi @lizzie27
They are definitely posts which have been cut down and driven into the ground, they are not log rolls attached to wire.

Although maybe that is an option for replacement.

 

Some of the posts look like they have already rotted at the base and should be easy to remove. I would try to remove those loose ones first, then see if the others can be levered back and forth like removing an old shrub or tree. The easiest option would then be to replace them like for like, possibly in front of the existing row if you can’t remove the sections below the soil, and then fill the gap with fresh soil. You may find it easier to do this after a day or so of rain when the soil is less like concrete .

 

Do you have any other materials around the garden, can see a few stones in the background. Dry stone wall should be straight forward to do and will last.