Plastic Potting Bench

Hello all searching for a plastic potting bench for as its easy to wash down and keep nice and clean.

Dont want or need staging as my H made me lovely wooden staging.

Can anyone help me find please.

 

I use a wooden potting bench (Focus �£20), which I find excellent. On it I use a plastic grow bag tray for potting. However potting and 'nice and clean' are uneasy bedfellows.

An advantage of this is that I can have one potting mix on one tray, and another tray with a different potting mix. And I can swap them around.

 

Peters I fancy a new bench that also has a hole already made to place hanging baskets in when potting up.

Thanks any way shall check out Focus can always modify.

How are you affected with all this flooding?

 

Peters just won one on ebay looking forward to it arriving.

 

Just to show you what other materials can be used we were asked to create this from polystyrene foam. We just simply cut the shape and delivered it. It has a ply wood top on it but otherwise its raw polystyrene. What the customer liked about it is that it is light enough to take outside on a sunny day and just hoses it down at the end of his work.


I must get some actual photos but it's a little grubby now due to it's use.

 

Very innovative Foamcutter, and so simple.

Well done Scotkat. My raingauge says we had 7.3 inches of rain in the last two weeks, but it all seems to have drained fairly quickly. In fact a fortnight ago we were starting to get cracks in the ground it was so dry, so the rain has been welcome. But I am on high ground. If you are on low ground its quite a differant story, and I feel so sorry for the people that have been flooded.

 

polystyrene is a great material...

 

foamcutter it has great potential to be used as a propogating bench a heat mat on top of it and seed trays placed on this looks like a plan and as you say can be easily moved.

 

Thanks PeterS and couldn't agree more miraflores.

Walnut,

I presume the mat doesn't get to hot, I'm not familiar with them for that type of application, we have used a electric mesh/net for use with a seat in steamroom that was tiled.
Do you know of any links for the "heat mat" it maybe interesting to find out more.

 

Foamcutter you usually place the heat mats on top of a piece of polystyrene to stop heat being drained away thenput something like aheat blanket or sand to hold the heat, pots are then placed on this, if you look at this link it shows youan installation, your bench idea could have a recess to hold the mat in.
http://www.cmsgardens.co.uk/propagation.htm

 

Walnut,

thanks for the link. A little more research to be done.