5 Favorites: Pleasant Potting Shed Essentials - Gardenista
Gardening in winter is good for you because it s counterproductive to stand still With the persistently foul weather we may... ...spend more time in the shed than we d like which is why it is beginning to look a lot like home Photograph by Kendra Wilson. It may have no door but it has windows and a roof. Besides tea and coffee, Sara also has a portable heater and fairy lights around the window. Fairy lights are too life-enhancing to take down in January when we need them most. The ukulele, in a color of your choosing, to suit the decor. Benjamin Ranyard of Higgledy Garden keeps one in the shed to strum away the rainy hours He also likes to... ...have a cake on the go iced Madeira this week An Ohana Sopranino Ukulele is 99 99 from Southern Ukulele Store Garden designer Karen Gibson insists on a comfortable chair for the cat who otherwise would lie on the seedlings... ...She also suggests that an old microwave in the potting shed would be useful for sterilizing compost and mole hills Potting is often solitary: just you, the shed, and the radio. Tamsin Borlase of The Patch says that it is her window on the world, as she rarely sees people from 8:30 to 4 each day. Photograph by Sebleedelisle via Flickr. The drinking of tea becomes even more of a ritual when poured from a Brown Betty in a potting shed. For US tea drinkers, a 6-cup size Tea Pot is $35 from Ancient Industries. A potting shed is a catch-all phrase for barn, stable, tack room—anywhere that has a potting bench and room for compost. If there is no room to hang out as well, then really, it is just a shed. Photograph by Kendra Wilson.