This past weekend I got my hands dirty and it felt great! I love plants, flowers and gardening. I started with some of my house plants that needed to be re-potted and then started getting things ready for the flowers and plants I want to put out on the patio.
It’s easy to re-pot my plants outside on a beautiful day, but for those not so beautiful days during our Michigan winters, I set up a potting station for myself to make it easy to store my supplies and empty pots with a shelf that makes it easy to re-pot my plants. It works really well for me. I suggest setting one up in your garage, shed or even your basement. If you happen to set yours up in your garage or shed, don’t store your clay pots there during the winter. They crack in cold temperatures.
We all know how those bags of potting spoil can be bulky, hard to move around when they get wet, so I started keeping potting mix in plastic containers with air tight lids. This way, it stays in one spot, doesn’t spill out and it stays dry. If I need to move it, I can do so easily without it ripping open.
Keep open containers handy to put fresh cut flowers, veggies or weeds in and store your small utensils on a shelf, in a bin or use a peg board and corral that garden hose. A twisted, tangled garden hose doesn’t help you at all. Invest in a wall mounted hose hanger or hose pot and store the hose properly after each use so that you can easily access it and avoid wasting time trying to untangle it every time you need to use it.
Happy gardening!