In the eighth episode of ‘BUILD YOUR GARDEN’ we talk about how to pave in the garden, useful for moving or stopping without getting dirty. The garden is compared to a small city with pedestrian paths. To create them, you dig, compact the bottom, place curbs and create a slope for water to flow away. It is then filled with gravel or other material. It is advisable to entrust the work to a professional.
How to pave in the Garden
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Good morning and welcome to the eighth episode of the category ‘BUILD YOUR GARDEN’.
This section deals with organizational and design-related issues related to greenery.
In this eighth episode we will talk about how to pave in the garden.
Paving in a garden is used to go from one point to another or to stop in an area without getting dirty.
We can consider the garden as a simplified version of the city where there are roads, which however only serve for pedestrian passage or a few other means of transport.
So let’s start dividing the paths into two categories:
Those for pedestrians only, which we will deal with in this video
And those for both pedestrians and for the passage of motorized vehicles.
Even if the philosophy with which we prepare to build the path is the same
in the second case the layers will be greater both in thickness and in number.
So let’s talk about the pedestrian path.
Whether you decide to do it in stone beole, porphyry cubes or dirt, the preparation of the ground will be very similar.
We see it in this section.
First of all, a dig is made wider than the path and about 35 cm deep.
The bottom of the hole is compacted with the roller, perhaps including some large stones in the bottom.
Some people insert geotextile fabric, but it is not mandatory.
The side curbs are positioned in the material you prefer (wood or stone) and made to protrude as much as the covering.
One will be higher than the other to give a slight slope (2% of the width) to the path.
The slight slope is used to allow rainwater to drain away
It is filled with mixed-grain gravel (the fine one on the surface if dirt) filling all or part of the path.
If you have to place the beole or the sampietrini on top, you will leave the necessary thickness.
It is not a small thing to build it and we recommend that you have it done by a professional
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