A muddy garden is everyone's worst nightmare, ALAN TITCHMARSH tells us how to prevent it
In summer they are less noticeable, for the grass grows rapidly even when you walk over it with increasing regularity (non-league football matches apart), but in winter with grass growth at a standstill it is not long before the greensward turns to mud on regularly traversed routes.
Now it is no earthly good telling yourself that you will not walk that way for a while, since it is human nature to take the shortest route from A to B.
No; what you need to do over the next few weeks is to make sure that the most frequently used pathways through your garden are as all-weather friendly as they can be.
If you always walk across the lawn in the same place, sink stepping-stones into the grass. It’s an easy thing to do.
On a day when the lawn is not squelchy, lay your slabs out in a pleasing but practical pattern from the place where you will set off to the place where you will arrive.