A fairly simple and inexpensive way to create a garden path is concreting. According to your ideas, you can create a concrete path with or without curbs, leave it plain or decorate it in a variety of ways.
Concrete garden paths are very durable
What design tools do I have when concreting?
A concrete garden path does not have to be boring. There are numerous ways to "spice up" such a path and make it interesting. For example, you can use your children's sand molds to press playful patterns into the wet concrete or decorate the path with small pebbles.
You also don't necessarily have to pour out all the way as a surface. You can find plaster molds in specialist shops or hardware stores that you can lay directly on the ground and then pour out with concrete. This can be used to design interesting paths or to cast stepping stones for the lawn.
How do I embed correctly?
If your path has already been laid out and is only to be concreted, then you can save yourself the first steps. Otherwise, start by digging out the sods on the future path and applying some topsoil. Pat the bottom firmly. Before you mix the concrete, use plastic curbs or lawn edges to limit the path at the side, if you wish.
Mix the required concrete in a mortar bucket as indicated on the package. For larger quantities, a concrete mixer might also be a good help. Ask your hardware store whether such devices can be rented there.
If you have planned an elaborate design of the path, then you may mix the concrete a little more moistly than specified. This way it dries slower and you have more time. Your children may be happy to help you decorate with their sand molds.
Concreting step by step:
- possibly cut out sods and topsoil
- set curbs or curbs if desired
- Level and pave the surface
- Pour in the concrete and spread evenly
- Decorate with pebbles or impress patterns with sand moulds
tips
Do you have children? Then ask for help decorating the concrete path or borrow your favorite sand molds. In this way, the new path becomes a “cast in stone” memory for your family.