Get Yourself A Garden Shed
Article by Jim Carnegie
Do you love working in your garden, but need a place to pot your plants and store your compost and tools? With a garden shed, you won’t have to go back and forth to the basement or garage. You’ll save on gardening time because everything will be in one handy place. Plus you are more likely to take better care of your tools.
The variety of sizes, shapes, styles and designs for garden sheds is literally endless, ranging from a simple, small structure for keeping your gardening tools dry, to a back yard barn large enough to house lawn mowers, bicycles, and even pool equipment. There are designs that will match any architectural style perfectly, and if you don’t find exactly what you need, you can have one custom designed.
You will find that you can use your garden shed storage for much more than just a place to hang up gardening tools and store away other garden equipment. Use your garden shed storage as a workshop. Use your garden shed storage for all sorts of non-garden things like Christmas decorations. Garden sheds can be small or large in size, and they can be designed with specific storage needs in mind.
For homes with small gardens or modest storage needs, there are several types of very small sheds. These include corner sheds, vertical sheds, horizontal sheds. There are even garden hutches which are great for small spaces for outdoor storage. Or if space is very tight and you only want to store a few tools, you might want to consider an outdoor cupboard, either in kit form or out of plywood or fibre cement sheeting.
Some sheds that are specifically designed for gardening are called “potting sheds”. These often feature windows or skylights for illumination, ventilation grilles, and a potter’s bench for mixing soil and re-potting plants. Potting sheds are little structures that are the perfect size for potting up hundreds of fragile seedlings. These buildings can easily hold a potting bench, soil and amendments, garden tools, and pots. You can choose from a built-in potting bench or a wheeled bench. Features such as pull-out potting tables, shelves or windows are handy options.
Don’t forget to consider just what you will use your garden shed for. Will you need large bins to hold compost, potting soil, mulch, and other bulky garden materials? Will you need very much lighting and ventilation? What will you be storing on your shelves and how big do they need to be? How much room will you have inside when all of the tools and machinery is stored?
Garden sheds can be built using different materials like wood, metal and plastic. Each material has it’s own advantages. Wood looks great, metal is durable and plastic is easy to construct. Both metal and plastic tend to be cheaper and more durable than wood. Wood, however blends beautifully into a garden setting. If you are choosing wood, just make sure that you have it pre-treated for rot, mould and termites. Metal is great if you want a pre-fab shed that will be durable. It requires little maintenance, but can look somewhat dull.
Perhaps the best of both worlds is plastic. It comes in all sorts of shapes and colors to suit your existing architecture, requires little maintenance and is cheap. The only downside of plastic is that it is quite light and can blow away in a strong wind. It can also dent if you run into it with the lawn mower!
All of these delicious decisions are before you when choosing your garden shed. If you choose well, you will have many enjoyable years of gardening and pottering in your shed.Feel free to go to garden sheds and storage for more information.
About the Author
Jim Carnegie is excited by all things to do with sheds and storage. He is a keen gardener and loves nothing more than pottering around in his garden shed. Visit him at Sheds And Storage
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