Up the Garden Path

This weekend saw the beginning of summer and the start of the summer season on the Isle of Wight with both the Old Gaffer's Festival and the Round the Island Race. Whilst all those people were messing about in boats however, we took advantage of the fine weather to lay a garden path.

It has taken us two weekends but we now have a ribbon of brick path joining the veg patch at the bottom of the garden to the decking at the top. We used a dry mix of approximately 1 part cement to 4 parts sand. The main advantage of doing this is that if you make a mistake you can quickly take up what you've done and re-lay it.

From humble beginnings at the edge of the deck, the path now weaves gently down the edge of the lawn to the veg patch. We intentionally avoided keeping it straight and the planting along the edge should soon soften it even more.

The final touch was to brush more dry mix into the gaps between the bricks and then water it in. Alternatively, we could wait for the great British weather to do it for us, although thankfully, the weather forecast is definitely predicting that summer has arrived.