Best strimmers for a neat and tidy garden If you want to keep the edges of your lawn in good shape then a strimmer is just the thing. So, which one to buy? 22 February 2021 • 9:57am There are few parts of a well-kept lawn that cause quite as much frustration to keen gardeners as the edges. Often a lawnmower is too bulky to trim the edges of the grass, and if your garden ends in a flowerbed or rockery, you risk damaging your flowers, your lawnmower, or both. But the solution is simple: a strimmer. Often known as garden strimmers, or line trimmers if you’re in America, these handheld devices take the form of a shaft with a set of blades at the end which can be used to chop down errant patches of grass.