One of the things that sold me on this rental property was the huge backyard. After that? Two garden sheds! Our previous place had no shed. We had a tiny garage, but it housed anything that didn’t fit in the house. Having a shed just for yard and garden tools and equipment is a gardener’s dream. Two sheds? Even better.
A garden shed can be anything from a simple lean-to on the side of your house to a custom built dream shed in a picturesque garden. Every gardener’s needs will be different, and while practicality is of upmost importance, I think we all dream a little when it comes to the perfect garden shed.
What Makes a Perfect Garden Shed?
I asked some of my gardening friends what features would be in their dream garden shed from TESCO… I’ll start!
While I feel like my shed is pretty perfect, if I were building one from scratch I’d make the bench a little lower for a convenient potting station. I’d also add a few more shelving units to keep my pots, watering can, fertilizers and insect repellants more organized. And while we’re dreaming, a nice garden sink off the side would be really nice! (both of those links lead to amazing how-to articles from my friends at Homestead Chronicles!) – yours truly
Adequate wall space to hang garden tools, shelving with bins to house hand tools, rope and other equipment, a filing cabinet for my seed library, an outlet for electric items, windows for natural light and lastly a small table and chairs to enjoy the space when I’m not working! – Erin from Turner Farm Living
One half would be a glass walled greenhouse, the other would have tools neatly hung on a wall, drawers for hand tools, space for my huge seed collection, and an amazing planting bench with buckets of soil and shelves of pots and trays for starts!! – Teri from Homestead Honey
What to Store in a Garden Shed
One of the nice things about having two sheds is we can use the smaller one for the kids’ outdoor toys and some of the larger items we don’t need access to on a daily basis. This shed holds our tomato cages, large pots, boards and the plastic we use to cover the hoop houses. All that fits on one side and up on a shelf across the top, leaving plenty of room for toys under it.
Our big shed is a double duty as well. The back half is storage. The front half is all about the yard and garden. Here we store the mower, weedeater, wheelbarrow, garden tools, hand tools, small pots and potting soil, and anything else we need constant access to. It is an open space with a wonderful workbench on one side. If we had a tiller, it would be stored in here too, but our city garden is small enough that we turn it once a year with a garden fork.
What would your perfect garden shed be like?
This post is proudly sponsored by Tesco Direct. All views and opinions are my own!
Hi Erica,
Who wouldn’t want this shed in their yard? What a beautiful and functional garden shed! Thank you for sharing this enlightening post with us at the Healthy Happy Green and Natural Party! I am pinning and sharing!
Beautiful, inspiring, whimsical!!! This gardening shed is sooo me! The second that I saw it, I pictured as the perfect ART studio for me. Painting is my passion, my therapy, my love! What a perfect atmosphere that would create for me, I thought. I love that it isn’t “perfect”. The older wood with the randomness of color. Like my artwork, it’s not perfect. It’s bold, colorful, whimsical and loose. I’m not afraid to paint outside of the lines. Blooming flowers, colorful fish, mandalas, cottages…all the fun things I love to paint and now, I want one of these sheds to paint all if it in. So happy that I came across this. Now, where to build it and conveniencing my other half to help me do it! I’m in love….thank you!