Update: looking brand new and ready for winter

(Original post here https://www.reddit.com/r/GardeningIRE/s/qCerLhu7Q7 )

Thanks to everybody for the help and suggestions on my original post. For somebody with no green fingers or garden experience, really happy with how the path turned out.

Steps taken for anybody else who has the same problem or is curious:

1) bought these lads from Amazon for a fiver and scraped out every single line and crack in the path https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C14RCKMF?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
2) bought an edging tool from woodies and cleaned up the edges where the garden meets the path
3) swept everything away
4) power washed the whole path
5) got two bags of dansand from woodies (although only needed one) and swept it over the path and into all the cracks https://www.woodies.ie/dansand-no-grow-1137337

Not gonna lie, it was a long and painful process, mostly the scraping of the cracks, but definitely worth it. And more importantly, I have a process in place now as I’ll no doubt have to do this again

Also including bonus pics of the back area of the garden I cleaned up because really happy with how that came out and hopefully the plants grow (there’s also some bulbs in there you can’t see that should be coming up in spring, if I didn’t plant them upside down)

Thanks again all!