Creating a Garden Path
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7 simple steps to creating a garden path include: 1) identifying an area in need of a path, such as a worn patch of earth; 2) delineating the path with materials like bender boards and planting beds; 3) excavating and preparing an S-shaped path; 4) compacting the soil of the pathway; 5) adding natural weed control and landscaping fabric; 6) laying down decomposed granite fines; and 7) placing pre-cut pavers on top to complete the pathway.
Creating a Garden Path
- 1. Creating a Garden Path 7 simple steps to making your own with www.passionategardeners.com
- 2. A garden in need of a PATH and redesign.
- 3. The ‘worn earth’ tells us this an obvious spot for the future PATH.
- 4. The PATH: Delineated by bender board & planting beds to left and front right.
- 6. A gentle S-shaped path being excavated and prepped.
- 7. Hand tamping to compact soil of pathway.
- 8. Sprinkled & watered-in corn gluten (natural weed control), then, laid out landscaping (weed) fabric with pins.
- 9. Delivery of blue pathway fines (decomposed granite).
- 10. Rectangular pre-cut pavers laid out on the decomposed granite.
- 12. Completed pathway. Join us at www.passionategardeners.com or on facebook.com/passionategardeners