Gardening Toolshed

One of the things I like best about gardening is that it’s seasonal. I love the sense of anticipation I feel when the spring bulb leaves first break the ground. I love the smell of sweet spring flowers, the pride I get from eating food that I grew, and the satisfaction that comes with clearing the beds and putting away the tools until next spring. And then I love taking a break from gardening all winter long.

But not everyone is like me. I realize that a lot of you love gardening so much that you want to do it year-round. Gardening with a greenhouse will extend your growing season and allow you to “winter over” many plants that would otherwise perish during the winter.

If gardening all winter long appeals to you, then greenhouse gardening is for you.

No Room For A Greenhouse?

Would you love to have a greenhouse and do gardening all year long, but you don’t have room for a greenhouse? That’s not surprising. The average residential home lot size dropped by more than 500 feet between 2001 and 2003, and lots are getting smaller all the time.

Twenty-six percent of new residential home lots are only 4,000 square feet in size. Put a 2,500 square foot home, a deck, a couple trees and some flowerbeds on that lot, and you don’t have the kind of room that traditional greenhouse gardening requires.

With a small scale greenhouse, you can have your own greenhouse garden on a small lot or even on a deck or patio.

Lean-To Greenhouse

A lean-to greenhouse makes gardening year-round possible on a small scale. This size of greenhouse is perfect if you just want to grow some winter salad crops in pots, winter over some potted plants, or start seeds early in the year.

A lean-to greenhouse is a three-sided structure made of clear, unbreakable polycarbonate panels set into an aluminum frame. The structure attaches to the exterior wall of a home, a shed, a garage, or a fence.

The structure is 51 inches wide, 26 inches deep, and 77 inches tall – tall enough for to fit three shelves. If you also put plants on the base of the greenhouse, you get 32 square feet of greenhouse space for gardening.

Juliana Greenhouse offers a lean-to greenhouse for gardening all year long. The price ranges from $308 to $430. A larger model, with the same depth and height, but measuring 75 inches wide for gardeners who can handle a seven-foot wide greenhouse.

When you are embarking on a hobby such as gardening, you want to be sure that you have the right types of tools that you need in order to do it well. You are going to want to make sure that you have gardening wagons that you can use in your garden. These gardening wagons can help you haul the things that you need to haul, as well as carry things that you need to carry. However, you have to be sure that you are choosing and finding gardening wagons that will work best for you.

Choose the Right Kind

The first thing that you have to figure out when you are looking at gardening wagons is the size and kind of wagon that you are going to need. First of all, you want to make sure that the wagon you choose is big enough to handle all of the things that you want it to handle. You should be finding gardening wagons that you can fit all of your stuff into, and one that is not going to be too large for you to actually use. You want to be sure that the gardening wagons are the perfect size for what you will be needing.

The other thing that you want to sure about when you are choosing your gardening wagons is that you need to have one that can navigate the area where your garden is. You want to be sure that you can pull the gardening wagons around when you are gardening, so be sure that it has the right types of wheels and that they are large enough to get through whatever material they have to get through.

When you are finding gardening wagons that you need, price is something that you want to keep in mind. You want to get a wagon that is going to be durable and last a long time, but you don’t’ want to buy the most expensive one out there because it will end up being outdoors and might end up being damaged. So think about price carefully when it comes to your gardening wagons.

The other thing that you want to focus on is taking care of your gardening wagons once you have them. Be sure that they have an indoor place to be so that they are not in the rain or snow. Also, be sure that you are cleaning them when they get dirty and drying them when they get wet.

Depending on the size of the garden and the amount of time and effort a person wants to put into it, gardening tools can make their life much easier. The selection of available tools can be confusing, especially for the beginning gardener and many have the tendency to go out and buy all of the gardening tools on the market. Unfortunately, after the first growing season they find that many of the tools they own serve no useful purpose and will spend the next year rusting away in their storage shed or garage.

It has often been said that if a person is going to get into gardening they have to dig it, and with power tillers and plows, a shovel seems like a prehistoric method of turning over the soil. However, a shovel is one of the gardening tools that will be necessary for anyone planting fruits, vegetable or flowers as most power tools will not get close enough to the edge to be useful. Hopefully, manual labor can be at a minimum, but a shovel will be one tool that is an absolute must.

Rakes and hoes are a couple of other back-driven gardening tools that are needed for smoothing out the stop soil and for making rows and chipping away at spurious patches of weeds. Without them, some of this work will need done by hand and as tiring as using rakes, shovels and hoes can be, being on the knees and doing it by hand is much worse.

Many Tools Made Just For Profit

Some of the tools found in the stores are designed simply to make money for the manufacturer. Rototillers that also work as an edger may be nice and combine two totally different and unrelated functions, but not many people will use an edger along their garden. This is one of the gardening tools that may be nice to have, but may not be necessary to help the garden grow.

Possibly one of the most useless items on the market are tool bags in which all the gardening tools are carried between the shed and the garden. Not that they are not convenient, but they can get dirty at the end of the day and many are difficult to clean. Keeping all of the gardening tools in a plastic bucket accomplishes the same thing and they can be cleaned out with a garden hose. Buckets can be used or bought new for about $3 compared to some of the totes that begin at around $20.