How to clean your patio so it's perfect for outdoor living

Cleaning off stones, concrete walkways and hard paving is a satisfying, muscle-challenging, calorie-burning afternoon’s work 

Here comes summer: Whether you use a non-chemical clean and plenty of muscle and brush once your patio is clean you are set for the season. Pictures: iStock

With the sun in a longer arc through the broken cloud of April, and warming those back slabs — it’s time. 

That patio is probably green and pretty dingy, with small invasive plants microscopic botanical growth including algae, blackspot and other lichens and more visible still — moss and tiny tenacious weeds waving from every moist, mineral rich crack and crevice.