My Potting Shed

This is my place to pot up plants, start plants and store my tools and garden stuff. This little 10x16 post and beam shed was built in 2004 in early November and I had to wait until spring to really decorate it. At that time we did not need to keep the lawnmower and tractor in there and it was so much better, but I love it just the same.

 After it was built my hubs added the outside light and a light inside so I can go out at night without the aid of a flashlight. The electric outlet lets me put candles in the windows at Christmas time too.

This cabinet I found in the basement of an old brick building my husbands family owned. They said it used to be a bakery and everyone thought I was crazy when I brought it home 25 yrs ago. Why did I want that crappy piece? I put it in the garage and held on to it. I knew I would find the perfect home someday! I think it was made for this spot. I love to work on it and look out the old window my son installed a few years later.
The window I too brought home when a friend had new windows installed in her 1900's era home. I put a stack of them in my car, how I wish I had taken more. I still have some in the shed waiting for me to put them to good use.

The other day it was raining and I love to go out in the garden and work in the shed. I cut some hydrangeas and used a straw base and some u pins and made this wreath. I can do many more when I cut the Limelight  hydrangea bush. It is best to work with the green stems and let them dry on the base. They are too brittle otherwise.

My cans for the birdseed and the mower and tractor, necessary evils......

Mums that need to go to the potting bench, because I like them in clay pots.

Doesn't this look better?

My stone step that hubs had put there for me.....much nicer then the wood ramp the builder left us with.

I can feel Fall in the air, we have the solar cover on the pool so it will be warm for the Grands on the weekend. Then we can have pumpkin bread and cider and swim too!  My potting shed will see less and less of me as it gets colder and the mice scurry in, yuk. My kittys better get to work, but I think they are too well fed to hunt like they should. Snow will come and we will go in there to get bird seed for the feeders and to decorate for Christmas, but then Spring will come again and there will be a flurry of activity. I put plants in there when it is too cold to be outside and I putter  in there when spring rains would keep me in. I just love my little potting shed!

I have new window boxes that I am still painting and will get some more fall decorating done as it gets cooler.  

So do you have a place you can go to do your messy chores?