Potting Table Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Potting Table Is The Workbench For Your Garden

By Rodger G Allenby

Potting table is one of the most useful tools to maintain your garden. It is the workbench of the gardener. Usually kept in the garden shed or the garage worskhop.

On a potting table, you can have all your tools laid out. Prepare your seeds and seedlings for planting, have any natural fertilizers like blood and bone, ready to apply to the soil.

You would work on your potting table, when it is raining or too dark to be in the garden. When you want to avoid the heat in the middle of summer, you can continue to work for your garden, in the coolness of your garden shed, pottering around on your potting table.

Avid Gardener

If you’re an avid gardener, it’s likely a potting table is on your wish list. If you’re a beginning gardener, you may wonder, “What’s a potting table?”.

Your potting table is a simple work bench, allowing you the space to arrange your pots, mix your soil, store supplies and plant your seeds or plants.

A potting table is the gardener’s dream come true. When you’re planning next year’s garden, you need a space to make those dreams come true. During the rainy months, there’s not much you can do to till the ground or set up beds.

Plan For Tomorrow, On The Potting Table

This table gives you a space to plan for tomorrow, or at least for spring. A potting table serves you well in mid-season, starting seeds and potting up your next generation of plants. The potting table is a nourishing refuge for plants to come.

If you’re an indoor gardener, a potting table in the garage or basement helps save a mess in the house and makes a handy place for storing potting soil, fertilizers, spray bottles and the like.

All that’s required for a potting table is a space about four feet long and two feet wide. You can purchase one or it can be a DIY project if you’re handy with tools. It’s not a difficult project. Your potting table can be as simple or elaborate as you please.

Online Plans For Potting Tables

Plans for building these tables abound on the net, from simple workbench style tables to potting tables with all the bells and whistles.

Some have a shelf below for storing pots, bags of soil, fertilizers, rooting mediums and the like. The lower shelf is handy because it keeps these supplies off the ground and away from insects, who may otherwise take up residence in your supplies.

Upper Shelf

Table designs may also include a shelf above, handy for gardeners who do a lot of potting. This allows the upper shelf to be used for bottles, boxes and jars of fertilizers, rooting mediums and other such gardeners’ “condiments”, leaving the lower shelf for soil bags and pots.

Yet another available feature is a strip of wood across the upper shelf which is equipped with hooks from which tools, like hand-held spades, pruners and bulb planters may be hung.

Incubating Spring Seedlings

The surface of the table may also be used as an “incubating” table for spring seedlings. Just put a heating pad (especially designed for seedlings, available at the nursery) on the table top and set your seedling trays on top. You can set the temperature that’s right for the particular plants you’re growing.

Whether you buy or make your own potting table, this gardener’s tool will keep you organized with many a happy plant to boot! For those of you with gardening friends, this type of table makes a terrific gift at any time of year.

A potting table is one of the most handy tools to maintain your garden. It is most convenient to have in the garden shed, where a lot of the work is done when not in the garden.

Custom Made Potting Table

You can visit your local nursery and ask for a potting table made to your specifications, to meet all your gardening needs. You may want to include the shelves below the table and an upper shelf as part of the main design.

While you are at the nursery, you may consider replenishing some of your garden seedlings. It is always a good idea to try out new seedlings for different vegetables to grow in the garden.

You may have some seedlings that will not grow, or grow too slowly, you can buy a few more seedlings from the nursery, so you have a greater chance of successful growth. While you are there, you may also ask for advice from the nursery staff about gardening matters, including successful seedling growth.

You may find the heating pad for the seedlings is one of the most useful tools when using the potting table.

About the Author:
Rodger G Allenby has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including Above Ground Storage Tank, Mum Flowers, Table Top Fountains, Garden Supplies, Green Lawn, Grass Seed, Bird Baths, Hummingbird Feeders, Gardening Tools, Backyard Putting Green, Backyard Ideas, Backyard Landscaping Pictures, Outdoor Fire Pit, Underground Pet Fence, Above Ground Storage Tank, Garden Supplies, Backyard Fences, Fish Ponds, Enclosed Porch.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.

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