Lawn edger -- here goes nothing....

I am in the process of moving from the Seattle area to the "just south of Portland, Oregon" area....Salem for any of those who care.

I am still mostly at the Seattle place, wife is in Oregon. The Oregon house is a house....in a neighborhood....typical suburb sort of thing. It has lawns, landscaping, lawn sprinklers.

Our Seattle place is a bit rural, a few acres, and the landscaping is a bit rustic. We have grass, we have flowers, but not too manicured. The Oregon place is very manicured, but pretty well "planted" with the type of plants that don't really need a lot of fussing.

Anyway, have never "edged" a lawn since moving out of my parent's house at age 18. In those days, you had a stick with a sharp star wheel at the end and you pushed it along and edged between concrete sidewalks and grass.

Nowadays, I see the landscapers using string trimmers to edge. I tried that a couple of days ago with fairly ugly results. I see that there are "power edgers," but not sure about them. Much of my edging will be the edge of the grass to where it meets dirt -- no concrete involved.

I just found this video from this Old House, so think I am going to give his half-moon edger a go. If anyone has any other ideas....