How to Make Garden Pavers With Milk Jugs

Pavers for keeping feet on a garden's pathway is a project that can be done using old milk jugs, one way to reuse a container instead of sending that item straight to a landfill. Once used, the plastic form can be used for more pavers or placed into the recycle bin. By following a basic process you can make pavers for the garden with old milk jugs.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Milk jugs
• Razor knife or scissors
• Quick setting concrete
• Measuring cup
• Fresh water
• Wooden paint stir stick

1. Place the milk jug on an area where you will not mind a bit of a mess being formed. You can wash the area down later if a little concrete mix spills over. Use either a razor knife or a pair of scissors and cut the milk jug in half where you will have a container that is three inches deep. The top portion can be used as a funnel for other duties.

2. Pour approximately two inches of the dry quick-setting concrete mix into the plastic form.

3. Add approximately one cup of water into the dry mix. The amount of water will vary depending on the amount of humidity in the air.

4. Mix the water and dry concrete with the wooden paint stirring stick. Be sure to work into the round corners of the plastic form. You will want a final consistency like that of a cake batter ready for the oven.

5. Allow the concrete mix to sit over night. Remove the new paver by turning the form over and gently pressing with your hand around the bottom side of the plastic. The paver should exit easily.

6. Cure the new paver until the fresh "green" concrete turns a pale gray color. The new paver is now ready to set in the garden for a new step in the pathway.

Tips & Warnings

• While the concrete is curing you can set stones or engrave names onto the top of the hardening concrete.

References

• Cast Concrete