A Dedicated Potting Area almost finished

15 years ago

This is one of our major projects for this year. We started discussing it early spring. I've been wanting to get all my gardening 'stuff' off the back porch so it doesn't look so trashy and will be easier to keep cleaned up.

here's the before shot from last year when the new east side fence was going in.

here it is just before we started:

and a close up:

and here it is with all the dirt/ground work done:

We re enforced the bottom of the fence, hired the retaining wall done, then back filled with bags and bags of dirt. Most all of which I carried and dumped myself.

Once it had set and settled we hired guys to move all the pea gravel from where it had been stored way over on the west side of the yard.

All the pea gravel went to the back area, which is where pots and bags of potting soil will be stored. The area on 'this' side of the AC unit is mulched only because we ran out of pea gravel and mulch is cheaper. :)

The planting bed hasn't had any soil added to it yet. That area is where I dumped bags and bags of grass clippings and leaves from the fall and early spring yard clean ups. Once it settles down and decomposes (a lot)I'll add some really good soil on top and plant in there.

Right now I'm thinking next spring. A small vegetable patch. In the mean time I'm burying all my kitchen scraps in there.

All that's left is:

1. Put 2 posts in this area. One to bolt the shed to and one to hold an umbrella for me.

2. install the shed, (its sitting in the garage right now) It will sit up towards the house and open towards the a/c unit. We'll set it on a base of pavers and bolt it to a post. I'll install a trellis on the back side of the post and grow something up it to help hide the back of the shed.

3. build and hang a hinging shelf along the fence in front of the a/c unit and install an umbrella for shade. We need the shelf to be moveable so when work needs to be done to a/c unit or the water heater (which is behind that door you see in the pictures) It will be easy to clear the area for who ever needs to work over there.

Here's a long shot of the area:

Here is a link that might be useful: storage shed link

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Comments (16)

carrie751
15 years ago
Well, looking good there, girl ..........no HARD work involved in this venture !!!!
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
15 years ago
Wow -- it's going to be great to have a potting area and all you need in one place. There's been some good planning go into this project for sure! Thanks for the photos and inspiration!
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PKponder TX Z7B
15 years ago
It'll be nice to have a dedicated space for your potting supplies! Looking great there, M !
bossjim1
15 years ago
Mel, that is really going to be nice! I hope you will keep it tidy. I have a dedicated potting area, and it looks like a bomb went off back there.
Jim
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
15 years ago
Jim, about your potting shed -- I think I know what you mean. Wanna' bet that mine looks more bombed out than yours? I've got a picture to prove it ... hahaha!
bossjim1
15 years ago
Roselee, I wouldn't dare take a picture. Once it's out there, you're always susceptible to blackmail.
Jim
melvalena
Original Author
15 years ago
Jim, I'm sure mine will end up looking just like everyone else's.

Hey! That's a thought... pictures (even the ugly ones) of potting areas and storage areas.
We all have them. Which is why I want to get all that blankityblank stuff off my porch once and for all!

Carrie has a great potting area at her place.
rock_oak_deer
15 years ago
That will be great to have an out of the way area and get stuff off the porch.

My stuff always ends up outside the shed a lot. I'll be brave. Here's mine at the beginning of the summer, it looks even messier right now.
melvalena
Original Author
15 years ago
What a great looking shed! I love that you have a little covered porch on it.
rock_oak_deer
15 years ago
Thanks, my husband built it from scratch and it's meant to sorta look like the house.

I see we now have a thread going. I'll have to take another picture for the contest so you can see I'm serious about the mess.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
15 years ago
Oh wow Shirley! TRULY -- that's a great little shed! How wonderful of your hubby to build such a nice little hidaway for your garden stuff. However, so far it won't have much of a chance in the Great Potting Shed Challenge ... lol.
Vulture61
15 years ago
and you call that a mess, rock oak deer? Ha! I don't even have a shed. All the pots are laying in a corner, framed by weeds. I'm with Jim: "Once it's out there, you're always susceptible to blackmail." Lol!

Omar
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
15 years ago
"I'm with Jim: 'Once it's out there, you're always susceptible to blackmail.'"

Cheep, cheep, cheeep ....

Ha! ;-)
Vulture61
15 years ago
Nah, ah. No way...

Omar
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
15 years ago
Omar, prove it :-)))

Jim, if everything is out in the open how would you be subject to blackmail? (So says one who doesn't want to be left dangling as the only one with a messy shed :-)
pjtexgirl
15 years ago
Y'alls look great compared to mine. Mine is scary. I have an industrial wire shelf (found in field) lean-to covered with an old pool liner to keep rain off. It's mostly hidden behind the dog kennel. I was hoping for a shed next year!

I love that dedicated area. You sure got a work out!
The potting shed with a porch is too cute.