If you're an avid gardener, it's likely a potting table is on your wish list. If you're a beginning gardener, you may wonder, “What's a potting table?”.
Your potting table is a simple work bench, allowing you the space to arrange your pots, mix your soil, store supplies and plant your seeds or plants.
A potting table is the gardener's dream come true. When you're planning next year's garden, you need a space to make those dreams come true. During the rainy months, there's not much you can do to till the ground or set up beds. This table gives you a space to plan for tomorrow, or at least for spring. A potting table serves you well in mid-season, starting seeds and potting up your next generation of plants. The potting table is a nourishing refuge for plants to come.
If you're an indoor gardener, a potting table in the garage or basement helps save a mess in the house and makes a handy place for storing potting soil, fertilizers, spray bottles and the like.
All that's required for a potting table is a space about four feet long and two feet wide. You can purchase one or it can be a DIY project if you're handy with tools. It's not a difficult project. Your potting table can be as simple or elaborate as you please.
Plans for building these tables abound on the net, from simple workbench style tables to potting tables with all the bells and whistles.
Some have a shelf below for storing pots, bags of soil, fertilizers, rooting mediums and the like. The lower shelf is handy because it keeps these supplies off the ground and away from insects, who may otherwise take up residence in your supplies.
Table designs may also include a shelf above, handy for gardeners who do a lot of potting. This allows the upper shelf to be used for bottles, boxes and jars of fertilizers, rooting mediums and other such gardeners' “condiments”, leaving the lower shelf for soil bags and pots.
Yet another available feature is a strip of wood across the upper shelf which is equipped with hooks from which tools, like hand-held spades, pruners and bulb planters may be hung.
The surface of the table may also be used as an “incubating” table for spring seedlings. Just put a heating pad (especially designed for seedlings, available at the nursery) on the table top and set your seedling trays on top. You can set the temperature that's right for the particular plants you're growing.
Whether you buy or make your own potting table, this gardener's tool will keep you organized with many a happy plant to boot! For those of you with gardening friends, this type of table makes a terrific gift at any time of year.
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