Trotting Off

The use of long-handled edging shears to trim the edge of a lawn, especially where it borders a flower bed or ornamental shrubs. This activity would also include picking up the grass clippings, hand weeding up to the start of the flowers or shrubs (which would typically be 300mm or less) and removing the clippings and weeds to a waste facility or compost heap. Edging a lawn and Trotting off are essentially the same tasks, however, in contrast to edging a lawn, which may be when significant grass overhang might be trimmed back, trotting off can be thought of as possibly a speedier edging, without excess grass overhang but will explicitly include the removal of weeds in the perimeter strip of an adjoining shrub or flower border. This task would also, typically, be carried out as part of regular frequent maintenance activities, rather than occasionally, which might occur for just lawn edging.