Stay Organized With Potting Benches

Gardeners sometimes have a difficult time trying to keep all of the material and tools they use organized. They find themselves spending time sorting through their things to find the hand rake or the right pot. Sometimes they even forget items in their garden and then can't find when they need it again. If this has happened to you on more than one occasion, then there's a good possibility that you need the services that potting benches provide.

Potting benches provide the serious gardener with shelves and hooks so that you can store all the pots, bags of soil, and small hand tools in one organized place. By hanging your small tools on the hooks that are located on the sides of your potting bench, they are easily in reach, but not in the road or in danger of getting left out in the elements accidentally. The shelves will allow you to store than many sized pots you use stacked neatly where they can be found without having to tear the shed apart. The same can be said for your potting soil and loam. Potting benches are extremely hand in keeping you organized at all times.

Individuals who garden can attest to the wear and tear on their lower back and knees. A Potting bench can alleviate the need of having to kneel for long periods of time, sometimes painfully if you have arthritis in your joints. You can stand or even sit as you work. You will find that gardening is much more enjoyable when you do not have to try to crawl to get a tool you left a few feet away or struggle to stand to get more soil when your joints have stiffened. Potting benches will help you keep fatigue at bay and you will be able to enjoy working with the soil once again.

Potting benches can even come with locking caster wheels so that you can move it into position where you need it. If you have a garden path that it will roll on, you will be to work in the area of the garden that needs replanting without having to run back and forth to get tools or go looking for another pot. Everything is there at your fingertips. Plus, if your potting bench should happen to be made of cedar, you can leave it under an overhang and not worry about it getting ruined if you are a suddenly caught in a rain storm. Cedar is very strong and weather resistant wood that can easily be stored anywhere no matter what time of year it is.

While you can purchase potting benches in just about any material, but wood benches match your outdoor wooden furniture and cedar one especially last for a long time. Using potting benches will save you hours of work and they will save your knees. If you enjoy wood craft, you can find a plethora of simple potting bench plans online for free. And that's definitely worth saving your knees.

Simon Douglass, an author, is a collector of outdoor furniture. Most of his writings are about potting benches for Adams All Natural Cedar. He has always loved writing, and now that he is older, he has grown an interest in collecting wood planters and spending time in his garden.