Brick path/edging - have I done it right?

Evening all.

Between the new patio and the lawn, I've made a good start on a new growing bad (its going to be a mix of veg). Dividing the dug over bed from the lawn, I've decided to put bricks down to make a sort of path, but mostly so its easier for me to keep the lawn from creeping into the bed.

I cut the line with my spade, and loosened the soil. Then I just laid the bricks on top to make a path that's a bricks length wide all the way along. I then stood on them and jumped on them to stamp them in. Then to get the path fairly even (not bothered about it being bang on) I laid a plank of wood on top of it, and then walked along said plank, knocking it at intervals with the sledge hammer, to whack the bricks down until they were flush with the lawn. I used the hose pipe to make the soil soggy in places where the bricks didn't want to squash down far enough.

Next, I scattered some of my heavy clay soil on top of the bricks, soaked it thoroughly with the hose, and then used the hoe to try to scrape some of the sloppy mud into the gaps between the bricks. That part of the plan didn't really work, so I'm going to have to think of a different plan.

The result I'm aiming for is a brick path that's held in place just by compacted mud.

I know it can be done, because just a few months back I helped my mate remove a very path from his garden that was just bricks on mud.

 

Im sure the way you've done it will be fine, but you might find individual or blocks of bricks moving over time.

Its a bit late now but I would have at least put a bed of sand down under the bricks. Or for preference, a bed of sand followed by a "run" of concrete down the middle of the bricks.

But, worse case if that a few will move, and you'll have to lift them and re-set them occasionally ...

If you want to fill in any of the gaps between bricks, I'd just brush in some sand (when its dry).

 

It'll have a certain sort of rusic charm Dave, no seriously, i've done the same thing here, just so I can get round the back without getting covered in clay during the winter. It only sagged where i'd backfilled a hole, should have beat that down with the sledge first.

 

Thanks chaps.

 

Can you get a pic up so we can see what it's like?, I'm thinking of doing a similar thing as an edge to my Palm bed I've just made.

 

Weather permitting tomorrow, I'll go out and clean it up and take a pic. Right now it is covered in big lumps of mud, and wooden plank, so nothing to see at the moment.