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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 15 9:09 pm Post subject: Paths in the kitchen garden |
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I'm rethinking paths in the kitchen garden. What do people do? I have tried, over the years:
Brick (grows weeds. Hard to weed. Questionable 'frost proof' bricks, though)
Bock paving (ditto, but worse)
Grass (needs mowing and edging. Muddy and wet in winter. And summer, actually)
Woodchip over weed supressing membrane (good initially but grows weeds, weeds and more weeds when breaking down. Also aids and abets spread of bindweed, which I have never had the pleasure of gardening without)
Straw (worked better than expected but blew away in dry weather initially and then got compacted and wet. Would need changing every year, but cheap and easy to lay)
Gravel (last years trial, but I moved before it was fully tested. I suspect it would gradually accumulate detritus and weeds before long. Expensive too and heavy to lay)
Paving slabs (best of the bunch, but expensive and seriously heavy to lay. Still grow really awkward weeds in the cracks. I seriously hate weeding in cracks)
I've been to loads of gardens and woodlands and so on over the summer and seen lots of different paths. Lots of them seem to be some sort of compacted hardcore, which is obviously hardwearing and fairly easy to maintain. You see it on farm tracks and things as well, so I imagine it's cheap(ish). I wondered in it might work in a vegetable garden and if anyone had any experience of it? Or anything else that would mean much less time on path maintenance so I can concentrate on being behind on the actual gardening! |
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wellington womble
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