Gravel seems like the most obvious choice when building Garden paths and walkways in your landscape. It is low maintenance, easy to use and durable. But it’s also one of the most common landscaping materials around. If you want something with a little more personality, this DIY landscape design idea YouTube channel would be a better option. Instead of throwing away plastic nursery pots after planting, you can cut them up and use them to make perfectly round concrete pavers.
Nursery pots come in a variety of sizes, which means you can DIY pavers with a whole range of diameters. It creates endless design possibilities, and if you arrange it, the end result will be unique in the true sense of the word: there will be nothing else like it. It would be like a patio or walkway built with wood pavers, except these pavers provide a more stable surface, and won’t rot.
You create the forms by cross-cutting the pots into sections, and the width of the section determines the thickness of the paver. A good width is 2 ⅜ inches, as that is the standard thickness of concrete pavers, but you can choose any width. You can also change the width to create pavers of different thicknesses if you want different layers on the walking surface. There is a lot of creative potential that you were about to throw away.
Why buy square concrete pavers when you can make round ones?
The DIY landscape design used is simple enough. He began by cutting plastic nursery pots into sections using scissors for the smaller ones and a circular saw for the larger ones. (If you want to avoid Using a circular sawTry an angle grinder with a cutting disc instead.) He then laid the sections flat and filled them with concrete. It was just as simple, but with a few tweaks to make stronger, more usable pavers.
It was most important to insert the hardware cloth into the concrete after the form was half full, then the end of the pour. The addition of steel mesh made the paver more resistant to cracking and breaking. He also placed the forms on a mortar bed, but you can place them on plywood covered with plastic sheeting. The plastic will prevent the concrete from sticking, and the plywood will flatten the underside of the paver.
After the concrete sets and you remove the plastic forms, you can Install pavers Like standard people. Dig down about 7 to 8 inches, lay a 4-inch bed of gravel, cover it with an inch of sand, and then lay the pavers. Once you have placed them, you will need to fill in the spaces between them. You can brush in sand, or you can use mulch – or even pea gravel – for wide distances.
