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Talkback: How to lay a garden path
chappersandco
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Hi, my husband and I decided to start living the good life and created our first vegetable patch a few weeks ago. It's only a small area (about 6 ft by 10 ft) but our soil doesn't seem to be good quality so we added 3 bags of garden compost and some chicken manure pellets to try and give a good base (we left it for a week before planting anything). We now have some potatoes, red and white onions and carrots planted but we were wondering how often to keep the soil fertilized? Thanks, Kath.
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1. It allows water to gather, erode the ground and the slabs soon begin to rock.
2. Water can freeze and expand - cracking your slabs.
3. It allows insects to burrow, especially ants.
If you hire someone to lay slabs and you see that they intend to use this method - get rid of them and get someone else.