I am interested to find out what others use for storing all your garden ferts/spray liquids/ pellets etc. My personal gardening guru is complaining that we have stuff stored in too many places. Some in the garage. Some in the shed and a lot under the potting bench outside the fernery.

The bulky stuff is in plastic gargage bins and/or plastic storage boxes on wheels. These are all stored under the potting bench. More dangerous stuff is stored in an old upright freezer also next to the potting bench. The problem here is that anything in that freezer sweats in the heat and all the “directions” have faded or just worn off. Some things like pump spray packs are stored in the shed in a cupboard. Along with the gardening hand tools, hose fittings etc. They are safer there but a long way from where they are used and needed.

Anyway, what do you do with your garden stuff? Do you have as much stuff as we do? We could start our own nursery I reckon.

pomolo said:

I am interested to find out what others use for storing all your garden ferts/spray liquids/ pellets etc. My personal gardening guru is complaining that we have stuff stored in too many places. Some in the garage. Some in the shed and a lot under the potting bench outside the fernery.

The bulky stuff is in plastic gargage bins and/or plastic storage boxes on wheels. These are all stored under the potting bench. More dangerous stuff is stored in an old upright freezer also next to the potting bench. The problem here is that anything in that freezer sweats in the heat and all the “directions” have faded or just worn off. Some things like pump spray packs are stored in the shed in a cupboard. Along with the gardening hand tools, hose fittings etc. They are safer there but a long way from where they are used and needed.

Anyway, what do you do with your garden stuff? Do you have as much stuff as we do? We could start our own nursery I reckon.

That sounds pretty organised compared to my set up – I love the idea of the old freezer!

I have thought for ages that I need to copy or remove labels from things and put them in a binder. All my labels end up destroyed by slugs or spillages, and unreadable. Most of the labels aren’t removable though and writing them out by hand sounds like tedious work.

I’ve got bulk stuff in clear plastic bins on wheels which has been working pretty well. Odds and ends like hose fittings are either grouped together in a medium sized plastic bin, or in little plastic trays in a couple of drawers. That worked will until the rats got in the drawers and pooped and peed on everything in the little trays :(

Oh and anything that can hang I have hung up on pegboard – keeps the rodents away and minimises spider interference.

Hanging out to see if the rest of you respond.. Organisation tips and tricks are a bit of a hobby of mine. I’ve filed a few shed ideas away here: http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/organisation-pr0n/ but it’s mostly household things.

http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/organisation-pr0n/

Gee Bon I am impressed. There are some great ideas in that lot. A few laughs as well. From your comments. You have started me thinking seriously about storage and not only in the garden domain.

pomolo said:

http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/organisation-pr0n/

Gee Bon I am impressed. There are some great ideas in that lot. A few laughs as well. From your comments. You have started me thinking seriously about storage and not only in the garden domain.

Hey pom, glad to be of help! However I haven’t written all those comments, or personally tracked down all the photos.

Pinterest is like a giant collective scrapbook – someone will originally pin a photo and add a description, and then other people who like it will re-pin it to their boards. Sometimes when I re-pin something I erase the original comment and write my own, but sometimes I keep the original. Unfortunately pinterest doesn’t show you who wrote the comment, which is disappointing.

I’m finding it massively useful, especially for the new house. I have separate boards for kitchens, laundries, entries (more organisation pron there!), garden ideas (http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/garden-inspiration/) and so on.

Little bit addicted! :)

bon008 said:

pomolo said:

http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/organisation-pr0n/

Gee Bon I am impressed. There are some great ideas in that lot. A few laughs as well. From your comments. You have started me thinking seriously about storage and not only in the garden domain.

Hey pom, glad to be of help! However I haven’t written all those comments, or personally tracked down all the photos.

Pinterest is like a giant collective scrapbook – someone will originally pin a photo and add a description, and then other people who like it will re-pin it to their boards. Sometimes when I re-pin something I erase the original comment and write my own, but sometimes I keep the original. Unfortunately pinterest doesn’t show you who wrote the comment, which is disappointing.

I’m finding it massively useful, especially for the new house. I have separate boards for kitchens, laundries, entries (more organisation pron there!), garden ideas (http://pinterest.com/3tomatoesshort/garden-inspiration/) and so on.

Little bit addicted! :)

Thanks for the info anyway.

all chemicals will have their MSDS and dosage instructions on the internet nowadays, so print those off for your folder.

My bird seed and pellets are still in their bags but in garbage bins for protection form rats.

The two chemicals I have, one for weeds and one for termites are kept in a wardrobe in my shed, with their individual spray units. Each one dedicated to their chemical.

Fertilisers are purchased and used when required (let Bunnings et al be the storage area).

Liquid Fert is kept in original containers in the shade house on a shelf.

Now I have to think. The blue pellets, the osmocote, some Aquasol in a plastic container (with the front cut off the packet and inserted into the container and a small container of blue glyphosate (decanted from the drum) are on a high shelf in the little shed along with a small plastic bin of cut up pantyhose for ties. I have a hand sprayer for spot glyphosate use, and Mr buffy uses the drum for large sprays of fencelines etc with the backpack. There is a big drum of glyphosate in the big shed. Flatweed spray is bought as required and used up. I have a plastic rubbish bin with dynamic lifter (stinky, stinky poo!) and the agricultural lime is still in its paper bag, sitting on the floor. I noticed the other day that it is getting decrepit after about 4 years of sitting there….

The used paper shreds with chook poo on them are in an old bag from bird seed, but that stuff goes on the garden quite quickly anyway.

The woodash from the woodheater is in a tin bucket by the back door, but this is irregularly emptied onto any garden bed that is weeded and ready to go with something else.

My two mowers and my chipper are also in the small shed, as are most of my garden tools. But two spades and a couple of hand spades live dug into the soil not far from the back door so I can grab them without unlocking the shed.

The ride-on mower lives either in the big shed (with the two cars and a trailer) or in the equipment shed with the tractor and slasher and Scary Saw.

We don’t really keep much in the way of garden chemicals at all.

I keep my chook pellets in a galvanized rubbish bin, and the dog kibble in another one. I think they might be antiques by now! Mr buffy’s parrot seed for the cockatiels and the budgie seed are kept in plastic rubbish bins.
This lot are in the machinery shed.

All chucked willynilly in a downstairs gardening room.

I allow the rats and mice to have the blue pellets if they want to. It reduces the numbers.

roughbarked said:

I allow the rats and mice to have the blue pellets if they want to. It reduces the numbers.

does it reduce the numbers of others as well ? :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

I allow the rats and mice to have the blue pellets if they want to. It reduces the numbers.

does it reduce the numbers of others as well ? :)

Others?

I keep it locked in my shed.. The only others that can get into my shed are rats and mice. Though if I leave the roller door open I could easily get a brown snake.

Bubba Louie said:

All chucked willynilly in a downstairs gardening room.

But what about your wheelbarrows, (plural) your ride-on mower, your shredder? Etc. etc.

pomolo said:

Bubba Louie said:

All chucked willynilly in a downstairs gardening room.

But what about your wheelbarrows, (plural) your ride-on mower, your shredder? Etc. etc.

Ride-on mower???? LOL

The mower fits in there too and the rest are abandoned in various corners around the yard.

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

Bubba Louie said:

All chucked willynilly in a downstairs gardening room.

But what about your wheelbarrows, (plural) your ride-on mower, your shredder? Etc. etc.

Ride-on mower???? LOL

The mower fits in there too and the rest are abandoned in various corners around the yard.

Things will change when you get your bit of acreage. Can’t leave stuff all around the paddocks.

pomolo said:

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

But what about your wheelbarrows, (plural) your ride-on mower, your shredder? Etc. etc.

Ride-on mower???? LOL

The mower fits in there too and the rest are abandoned in various corners around the yard.

Things will change when you get your bit of acreage. Can’t leave stuff all around the paddocks.

A big shed will be high on the agenda, for both of us, and if MrBL gets his way we’ll be living in it.

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

Bubba Louie said:

Ride-on mower???? LOL

The mower fits in there too and the rest are abandoned in various corners around the yard.

Things will change when you get your bit of acreage. Can’t leave stuff all around the paddocks.

A big shed will be high on the agenda, for both of us, and if MrBL gets his way we’ll be living in it.

That’s funny BL.

pomolo said:

Bubba Louie said:

pomolo said:

Things will change when you get your bit of acreage. Can’t leave stuff all around the paddocks.

A big shed will be high on the agenda, for both of us, and if MrBL gets his way we’ll be living in it.

That’s funny BL.

Tis not. :(

Thanks for your contributions on this subject. I’ve read it all through again and I think the best advice was to put all the relevant information from each product into a binder that’s kept where it won’t get destroyed. This won’t please the Pomolorosa Garden Guru (he thinks he is and I humour him because he does all the hard stuff for me) because he was hoping to be able to keep all our stuff in one place for easy access. It seems that can’t be so we will continue as we are and get the extra exercise going from one shed to another. We probably need it anyway.

I was also impressed with the Pinterest site put up by Bon. Not only for the garden either

Thanks everyone..

pomolo said:

I am interested to find out what others use for storing all your garden ferts/spray liquids/ pellets etc. My personal gardening guru is complaining that we have stuff stored in too many places. Some in the garage. Some in the shed and a lot under the potting bench outside the fernery. The bulky stuff is in plastic gargage bins and/or plastic storage boxes on wheels. These are all stored under the potting bench. More dangerous stuff is stored in an old upright freezer also next to the potting bench. The problem here is that anything in that freezer sweats in the heat and all the “directions” have faded or just worn off. Some things like pump spray packs are stored in the shed in a cupboard. Along with the gardening hand tools, hose fittings etc. They are safer there but a long way from where they are used and needed. Anyway, what do you do with your garden stuff? Do you have as much stuff as we do? We could start our own nursery I reckon.

what’s a woman doing in a shed? i thought that was prohibited LOL.

btw i cooked my first cheesecake yesterday – a donna hay chocolate baked thing – its cracked on top – like me LOL – but still good enuff for desert tonite.

anyway – back to the shed – wise old mrs shultz said she had a double garage but only used half of it, and every year she moved everything to the other side and thus cleaned the shed.
- so clean the shed every so often and you find that everything has its natural resting place.

justin said:

pomolo said:

I am interested to find out what others use for storing all your garden ferts/spray liquids/ pellets etc. My personal gardening guru is complaining that we have stuff stored in too many places. Some in the garage. Some in the shed and a lot under the potting bench outside the fernery. The bulky stuff is in plastic gargage bins and/or plastic storage boxes on wheels. These are all stored under the potting bench. More dangerous stuff is stored in an old upright freezer also next to the potting bench. The problem here is that anything in that freezer sweats in the heat and all the “directions” have faded or just worn off. Some things like pump spray packs are stored in the shed in a cupboard. Along with the gardening hand tools, hose fittings etc. They are safer there but a long way from where they are used and needed. Anyway, what do you do with your garden stuff? Do you have as much stuff as we do? We could start our own nursery I reckon.

what’s a woman doing in a shed? i thought that was prohibited LOL.

btw i cooked my first cheesecake yesterday – a donna hay chocolate baked thing – its cracked on top – like me LOL – but still good enuff for desert tonite.

anyway – back to the shed – wise old mrs shultz said she had a double garage but only used half of it, and every year she moved everything to the other side and thus cleaned the shed.
- so clean the shed every so often and you find that everything has its natural resting place.

You will be a contestant on Masterchef if you keep it up JC. Now I understand why you changed your name…it was so you could be referred to as “JC.” I should warn you that that name is already taken.