| Once you have built your wooden garden shed | | | | around the garden shed and need to pick and roll |
| there are several things you need to add to | | | | those hoses up to avoid tripping and to make the |
| make it even better. If for example you are using | | | | area just look better. Keeping the hoses under |
| your garden shed for a potting shed or garden | | | | control can be done in two ways. One, install a |
| shed then there are some things you need to add | | | | hose reel on the shed or sitting at the side of the |
| to make the gardener in your life happy. | | | | shed and reel the hose in after use. The other |
| Regardless, of the use for your garden shed | | | | way is for you to coil the hose up in a hose |
| there are several accessories you need to add to | | | | container. Either way solves the basic problem of |
| the garden shed. | | | | making it safer to walk around the garden shed. |
| SOLAR POWERED LIGHTS ALONG THE PATH | | | | PORTABLE SINKS - For those shed builders |
| LEADING TO THE SHED – No matter what | | | | who do not want to add plumbing to the garden |
| you store in your garden shed sooner or later | | | | shed there are a couple of ways to use portable |
| you will find yourself needing to go the shed at | | | | sinks to help out the gardener. First, you can |
| night to get something you have stored in the | | | | mount a portable sink on the side of the garden |
| shed. Lighting the pathway will make it much safer | | | | shed. Second you can use a portable sink that is |
| for you to get to the shed and to get there in a | | | | constructed on wheels and that can be moved |
| safer manner. No more tripping to get to the | | | | around. Both types of sinks are available online |
| shed. Best of all solar powered lights come in a | | | | today and are a great way to make watering |
| variety of styles to make the lighting very | | | | easier for the gardener in the family. |
| attractive along the pathway to your shed. | | | | ADD A WEATHERVANE AND A RAIN GAUGE |
| SOLAR POWERED PUMPS – If you are using | | | | – Adding a weathervane not only adds |
| a rain barrel to collect the rainfall coming off the | | | | character to your garden shed but it also provides |
| shed you will eventually want to pump the | | | | you with an accurate wind direction reading for |
| collected rain water to some plants, shrubs, trees, | | | | your micro-climate in your back yard. Add a rain |
| or flowers. Today you can get solar powered | | | | gauge so you can get accurate rain amounts for |
| pump kits that will allow you to pump the water | | | | your lawn and garden. You will probably already |
| to wherever you want plus you can also use the | | | | have thought of adding a thermometer but you |
| pump to pump the water into a drip irrigation | | | | can also add a device to give you the wind speed. |
| system or to run a fountain. Using solar powered | | | | I installed a complete weather station to my shed |
| pumps save electricity and are the right thing for | | | | and had it transmit to a control panel in my house. |
| all of us to do whenever possible. | | | | I was constantly looking at the monitor for |
| SOLAR POWERED SECURITY LIGHTS – As | | | | accurate information for my area. An added value |
| you approach your garden shed there is nothing | | | | to this station was that the information could be |
| better than a motion detector light coming on to | | | | downloaded to my computer for historical |
| light the area for you. This is a safe way to avoid | | | | weather records for my yard. |
| tripping over garden hoses, pots etc. as you | | | | WINDOW BOXES – Add some window boxes |
| approach the shed. Even if the solar powered | | | | to your garden shed to give you some additional |
| security light is not a motion detector type you | | | | areas to plant flowers, starter plants, and herbs. |
| can using get a motion detector kit to make your | | | | Adding a window box also beautifies the shed. |
| light a motion detector light. | | | | ADD PLANTER BOXES AROUND THE SHED – |
| HOSE REEL AND HOSE CONTAINERS – If | | | | Not only will planter boxes allow you to beautify |
| you have landscaped around your garden shed or | | | | the area around the shed but they also give you |
| if you have turned your garden shed into a | | | | an area to plant starter plants in the spring. You |
| potting shed then you will be using water to | | | | can start your seedlings in your planter box and |
| water the plants, vines, flowers, or shrubs around | | | | move them into the garden shed at night if the |
| or in the shed. In all likelihood you will have hoses | | | | temperatures get too cold. |