What's Your Potting Shed Like?

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  1. CarolineL

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    The disadvantage of potting in the greenhouse (as I do) is that the potting bench takes up space I'd prefer to use for plants. I also need to give myself a good talking to, and find somewhere else to keep the empty pots, plant feed, and other things that use up plant space.
     
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    • Stephen Southwest

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      I made a large tressle table outside the north side of the greenhouse, which was really useful for potting on. Pots underneath, with water, compost, pricking out tool and plant labels nearby in the greenhouse.

      ...then it got filled with plants being hardened off, or grown on, and strawberries in pots, which I then built a slug and pigeon proof frame to protect...

      ...now I'm back to the kitchen table...
       
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      • JWK

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        Mine's the patio table or the wall round the veg patch. In bad weather it's the utility room.
         
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          As the greenhouse is stuffed full due to the cold weather I had to use the top of the water butt to pot up some small seedlings today. I also use the kitchen worktop if it's cold outside. Yesterday I sat directly on the patio to trim some scented pelargoniums - bit cold on the old backside.
           
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            We have a nice plastic potting tray in the greenhouse that can't be used because Mrs Shiney dumps odds and ends in it. I can't complain as she does almost all the potting. She usually sits on the lawn to do the potting but sometimes sits on her gardening stool of the grass is wet. If it's raining she works on the two 6ft wooden tables under the covered pergola.

            Our shed is a large toolshed in which gardening implements (mower, tools, pots, plastic and wire trellis etc.) and anything garden related that we don't use but can't bear to chuck out. Oh! not forgetting next door's cat if I leave the door open.
             
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            • Tinkerton

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              I love my shed. It's about 75 years old, wooden with a tin roof, ancient lino on the floor, and dropping to bits, but I wouldn't swap it. Couldn't afford to! It has two smallish south facing windows, and is about 10' x 15', so not poky. There's an old chair in there, and two dedicated potting areas, shelves for my thousands of pots, as well as plant foods, weed killers, hand tools, and hooks on the end wall for spades, forks, rakes, hoes, etc. The big stuff, mower, shredder and wheelbarrows are kept elsewhere.

              It's usually in a disreputable state, but I give it a good dust and brush up before Spring kicks in, and again, at the end of the gardening year, then I leave it for the mice. Every time I go in there it's like stepping back to 1950. I don't want a modern one! I enjoy time-travel.

              So no, @TattyMac , you don't 'look silly'! If you've got the space for one, go right ahead!
               
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              • pete

                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                Does it have a distinctive smell, my sheds do,mixture of wood with paraffin oil etc.
                The smell never goes away.
                My sheds are really untidy, but there was a time when I knew exactly where to find everything, not so much today though, I can spend hours hunting for things now days.
                 
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                  Yes it does, @pete ! Petrol for the lawn mower, mostly, which is kept in a can by the door! And blood, fish and bone.....and yes, wood. Old wood, in this case. I've got things in there that I've not seen for years, shoved away in corners, hidden behind other stuff. There's even an old Singer treadle sewing machine in there, somewhere :dunno:
                   
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                    I love a potting shed á la Monty’s!
                    I have a shed (storage), and two outdoor potting benches which are used mostly to do potting jobs and then to house small plants etc. The one is used as a plant hospital - young plants to give some slug protection and plants being resuscitated etc. When my poly greenhouse goes up in late Spring, that’s an undercover spot for potting and housing precious plants too.
                     
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                    • BB3

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                      I use whatever flat surface is available at the time -garden table, ground, top of the tool bunker, chair, bench. With any luck one of them will be free of junk.
                       
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                      • Sian in Belgium

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                        Monty’s potting shed is part of a stable-block, I think…
                         
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