Also like to add, i had a terrible time growing grass in the sandy dirt that the left us around the pool. Normal newdude knew better that he needed topsoil to speed it along, but we overshot our budget my a mile and still had to buy a cover to close the pool. So we had kinda grass, kinda dirt for a while. I got a bunch of square paver bricks at HomeDepot/Lowes for stepping stones. They were around $2 a piece and were much nicer than the cardboard walkway that we were (also) using. As an added bonus, i got to make a second walkway with the stones once i didnt need them by the pool anymore.