With so many recycled options, potting stations can easily be achieved on a budget too. Let's take a look...
1. The DIY kings at Sunset magazine created an awesome potting shelf out of recycled ladders— double green! Check out the full details at Sunset Mag.
2. An outdoor cocktail table— slatted teak or metal ones work well — can be repurposed as a mini potting station, hold essentials and look classy too.
3. Use a flea market cabinet to keep gardening supplies safe from the elements. Sturdy hard woods can often withstand years of exposure, but you can also coat the exterior in marine floor paint for added protection.
4. & 5. The talented Kristina of Lovely Morning blog created her potting bench out of a thrifted table and wooden crates from flea markets. Check out more details on her blog.
6. Craft a simple outdoor shelf out of a wooden plank and no-frills hardware store brackets for an instant potting station fit for nearly any exterior wall.
7. Perhaps a little too country for most, but I love the vintage feel of this wagon turned gardening station. Scrap wood was used for shelves and old screen door springs were used as lips to keep supplies from falling off.
(Re-edited from a post originally published on 6.18.2010 - CM)
(Images: 1: David Fenton for Sunset Magazine, 2: Cote Ouest via Garden Rooms, 3: Martha Stewart, 4. & 5. Kristina of Lovely Morning, 6: Donna Griffith for Country Living, 7: Country Home)
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I love them all! The wagon is adorable.
If I ever found a flea market cabinet as nice as the one in #3 it'd be inside, not out in the elements. Central NYS summers can be brutal with loads of rain. It'd be a wreck in no time. I do love these inspiring ideas, though, and admire those who live in climates conducive to this.
Here I was just thinking of putting a drop cloth over my patio table and bringing out my materials to the table. Storage would be nice, but that means the garage, not outdoor storage.
Clever and I love them all too, including the wagon (wonder how it was attached). Ditto about the flea market cabinet. I don't tend to find such nice ones and the elements here would destroy them. I always just used the patio for my "potting shed". Not so adorable, but it works.
I echo your sentiments about a storage shed as it was not high on the renovation list and I had to wait in what seemed like forever, until a few years ago. I located it on the poorly used space on the side of my house. You would think I had won the lotto with how elated I was when my dream became a reality. What kind of strange girl am I to become so thrilled over a mere shed--I just figured that few people could ever relate. Nice pics and ideas and thanks for sharing them.
Thanks for this; it's not that I don't have room, it's that I have so much room that I don't know where to start even making some sort of plan. Perhaps if I do something like this, the rest will start falling into place. Well, I can always dream... :-)