This isn't just any path, this is a
nightmare path: on my small allotment, with a metal dividing fence on one side and my beds on the other. The path is uneven clay ground, very compacted,with the odd ant hill. So far I've focussed my efforts on the beds and just pootled around with the path, trimming the grass and nettles and avoiding the odd bit of mud (my next big birthday will be my 60th and I do it all myself so there's not as much muscle power as there once was!). Now someone's taken over the neighbouring plot, which is reached by using that same path, and they are working their bit while the soil is wet
and also dragging a rotovator along the bit of the path that is alongside my beds, though I notice they've avoided their own stretch.
I haven't met them yet and they may be very nice people but they've b*ggered what there was of the shared path, which is now a swamp. I've come to the conclusion that I have to either build a proper path (since this is something that could go on for ages) or give up allotmenteering and (if possible) move to a house with a decent sized garden. That way I would also cut out the neighbouring guy who sprays everything with poison, the tool thieves and various other irritations. But... I'm not quite ready to give up yet, so I'm thinking about the path. Is there a reasonably easy/inexpensive way of laying a more stable surface? I have some leftover slate chippings (but they'd probably end up in the plot, wouldn't they? What about a big roll of synthetic flooring - I wouldn't use it in a plot, because it's inorganic, but could it be the basis for a path, with boards each side and something on top?
It says it can be used over uneven ground, but I notice the photos are taken on a nice level lawn, not vicious clumps of couch, anthills, etc. Have you actually tried it on uneven terrain?
so it's good to hear what's worked for other people.