Like you I salvaged a stainless steel double sink. Actually two of them. I am running water to my greenhouse so I always intended to use the first one as a working sink to wash pots in. Had no idea what I was going to do with the second one until I also saw wyndyacre's idea about the potting soil sink with the collection bin underneath so I'm going to incorporate both sinks.

That mesh bag is very cool. I would think it would be a great container to throw your clippings in as you maintenance prune your greenhouse plants. Also, if you have to dig and store any bulbs in the fall that would be a good bag to put them in temporarily to let them air dry before storing them if bench space isn't available. I'm sure there are lots of other ideas too, I just can't think of them off hand.

Good find! Sincerely, Danielle

When I potted up, I kept spilling stuff and making a mess on the floor, so I ended up buying a "concrete mixing tub" at Home Depot for about $5. It's very sturdy black, rubbery plastic and is just the right size. It measures about 18" X 24" X 6", and the high sides allow me to pot away and keep the mess inside the tub.

I forgot to say that the sink option you described is fine, but I prefer to use my sink as a sink (I have running water), and use the tub for potting. In addition the tub is portable and stable so I can move it around, or even outside if I need to.

The sink in my GH was still installed in the kitchen counter unit I used as my storage and potting bench. We just removed the door below it and built the sliding bin to go underneath.

I got a second sink on the site of a old farm. It's an old, shallow, porcelan (sp?) sink that was still frozen to the ground when I found it. I returned with the property owners permission 2 weeks later to pry it from the earth. :)

We built an outdoor potting bench behind the cold frame to use in good weather, which frees up space in the GH and installed the sink in that bench. There's an antique steel tub beneath to store and catch Pro Mix.

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Very good, you and I must share a common ancestor. I learned at an early age the value of "Scrounging"(SP)
I see that it is alive and well in middle GA. Now if you acn only get the damn thing up.

1eyedJack and the Dawd

Yes Jack....I hear ya loud and clear...the updated report (dont hold your breath quite yet) but I have someone coming Monday...2 someone's...a guy who has done work for me before and he's bringing a guy...so between the THREE of us, we should be cooking with grease....Of course, it won't be anywhere near as fun as if you'd made a road trip to GA to help me...but beggars cant be choosy :)

I have also been looking at the little styrofoam cups that you get salsa in at the mexican food place differently since I started on this GH thing...thinking if I had enough of them, I could use them to start seeds in...and then there is the chinese take out containers....and every time I drive by a work site of a new home being built...the juices start flowing....

so yes, we may have a common genetic connection...it's called the junk bug :) and if you actually pick up stuff that's not yours...we call that OPT...see if anyone can figure that one out....(mudhouse you know the answer to this already, so you can't help them)

OK, I won't tell them the answer. ;-)

I use a rectangular concrete mixing tub for bench potting too, for the same reason kudzu does. It contains the mess. I also have a med. sized rigid kid's swimming pool that we haul out in spring, to mix large batches of potting soil.

I had to buy the concrete tub, but dumpster dived for the pool.