Just discovered original edging tiles underneath the grass...dig up or leave?

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I've actually started excavating them, as they're just beneath the surface...the path itself alongside is just gravel I think, under a thin layer of lawn, not brick or anything exciting.

I started but now I am not sure whether I ought to bother as quite a few are damaged.

I was half thinking of using them along the flowerbed edge, but there are so many - it's hard work.

Can anyone suggest an easyish way to remove them (have been randomly digging with trowel) and also how to 'insert' them in their new position if I do reuse them?

Thankyou

Much easier to dig up if you use a sturdy spade rather than a trowel (I recently dug up loads of bricks and using my spade made it much quicker).
If they are old rope edging then its porb worth digging them up and re-using, you can simply sink them into soil and try and pack them in with soil to hold them in pace, if that makes sense?

Ah thankyou, yes that makes sense. They're a glazed, bumpy style - like a seamonster ~~~~~~ you know!

I'll try a spade. Seems a shame to leave them to waste under there...this garden is so neglected.

How's yours, Panna?

Yes I'd dig them up they sound good.

Ours is what you might call a work in progress!
Not helped by DS2 regularly tramping through the newly planted flowerbeds!
But it is looking much better than it did a year ago and I have more or less tackled the sea of ground elder.

Well done

I found a little patch of that and round-upped it briskly - hope we got it all, I think it wandered in from next door.