Free Garden Pathway Expansion – Using Wood Pallets

I am so excited!  Our back gardens are looking better than ever and Jim just completed an expansion of our garden pathway to link the back door to one of the gardens.  It’s something that we’ve been meaning to do for a while, and he happened to have the rototiller out so we planned the path and he went to work!

This project did not cost a cent – just lots of labor.  We used wooden pallets that he has picked up for free and created this pathway last summer:

You can read our step by step directions on how to create a pallet pathway.

Many more pallets & hours later, we now have this:

You will notice that in the middle of the path there is an area we used bricks and patio blocks in.  This is kind of the cross path and it is going to be a higher traffic area.  We wanted the bricks for more durability.  Everything you see was laying around the yard – we just repurposed it!  See all those Creeping Jenny plants bordering the new path?  They were free too – stolen from another one of our perennial gardens that we are demolishing to make way for a back landing to the pond.  My mind was churning as I thought about where I would relocate the plants from that garden and then it all came together when we started toying with the idea of adding this pathway last weekend.  I dug up a ton of Creeping Jenny and transplanted it all along the path.  This plant is true to it’s name;  it creeps and grows like crazy.  Next spring we should see robust amounts of that bright yellow foliage along the pathway.  I’m excited to see it embrace the pallet wood and maybe even creep up in between the pieces.  It is super durable too, so it can be mowed right up against for easy lawn care.

Do you have an area of your lawn crying out for a facelift?  You can not beat free!  You can read our step by step directions on how to create a pallet pathway.