Maintaining Your Wooden Pathway
Definitely one of the easiest pathways to maintain as it does not include removing heavy stones or sharp, splintering wood. You also won't have to weed it as long as you are able to add to it every so often to smother out anything that attempts to pop up. You simply add more logs or additional rotting fencing on top of where the old wooden pathway has broken down. Of course, you don't have to update or maintain your pathway at all. In the fall when the leaves come and cover up the pathway, I'll be dropping pathway stones on top which will settle down into the fresh soil as the pathway continues to rot made much more moist by the addition of the leaves. It is also important to note that in my own rain garden, the rain gutter on the house empties into a concrete walkway which floods easily during a heavy rain. This impermeable pathway does make an excellent water highway to carry the rain water into the front yard where I have planted both, edible and ornamental plants, bamboo for growing bamboo timber, and a host of flowers.