Your design looks very creative and attractive. Is it for indoors or outdoors? I'm just wondering about how well it will stand up to rain and winter wet and cold.
I have long wanted a decent potting bench as the galvanised ones you get for greenhouses are just too small if, like me you're usually busy taking cuttings or dividing clumps for potting up as well as potting on seedlings. I hit the junk shops and found a small table on a metal frame. I've taken off the small top and put on a larger slab of marine ply covered in a plastic tablecloth.
I found an old ceramic sink which I have put on a support under the outside tap so I can wash pots and also stand newly planted pots in it for a good soaking. There's space to store my bags of grit and compost underneath the table and buckets under the sink. All my spare pots are stashed on shelving from ex mini plastic greenhouses and now I have an organised work area out of the way at the back of the garage.
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obelixx, it will be outdoors and made from pressure treated timber; total cost £38 ish plus £5 for galvanised bucket. It will go in fron of the double doors to the garage which is my studio. It will be used for potting, washing pots and seed trays and prepping garden veg so I don't have to take muddy veg into the kitchen.
Your bench arrangement sounds very good; any chance of a photo?
I now have all the equipment for making this bench, local metal worker will cover the top in aluminium. But while I psyche myself up to make it (I may be punching above my weight carpentry wise) I have made a primitive leaf mould container.
Weighted down with stone at the base. I actually 'sewed' it together (no sniggering at the back there) with plastic covered garden wire.
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Your design looks very creative and attractive. Is it for indoors or outdoors? I'm just wondering about how well it will stand up to rain and winter wet and cold.
I have long wanted a decent potting bench as the galvanised ones you get for greenhouses are just too small if, like me you're usually busy taking cuttings or dividing clumps for potting up as well as potting on seedlings. I hit the junk shops and found a small table on a metal frame. I've taken off the small top and put on a larger slab of marine ply covered in a plastic tablecloth.
I found an old ceramic sink which I have put on a support under the outside tap so I can wash pots and also stand newly planted pots in it for a good soaking. There's space to store my bags of grit and compost underneath the table and buckets under the sink. All my spare pots are stashed on shelving from ex mini plastic greenhouses and now I have an organised work area out of the way at the back of the garage.
obelixx, it will be outdoors and made from pressure treated timber; total cost £38 ish plus £5 for galvanised bucket. It will go in fron of the double doors to the garage which is my studio. It will be used for potting, washing pots and seed trays and prepping garden veg so I don't have to take muddy veg into the kitchen.
Your bench arrangement sounds very good; any chance of a photo?
Maybe later when it stops peeing down. Tuesday by all accounts. Seriously fed up with being soggy.
Same here! I keep checking to see if I have developed webbed feet
I now have all the equipment for making this bench, local metal worker will cover the top in aluminium. But while I psyche myself up to make it (I may be punching above my weight carpentry wise) I have made a primitive leaf mould container.
Weighted down with stone at the base. I actually 'sewed' it together (no sniggering at the back there
) with plastic covered garden wire.
Well done there Art, you may like to put a grow bag tray on the top.
It looks like something from an Edwardian kitchen, so when you have finished yours, can you make one for me.
I can just see a little 12 year old kitchen maid standing at that.
You have given me an idea now, I have a 3ft headboard just like that going spare. Knobs and all.