How to Organize Your Garden Supplies

A well organized Garden means organized garden supplies! You can keep your Garden bench, shed, seed collection, gardening tools and planting schedule on track with these easy tips.

What Garden Supplies Do You Need?

Every gardener needs a good stock of gardening tools and supplies to help them build and grow a flourishing vegetable garden. So what are some basics you might need?

A garden shed to store all your supplies in and protect them from the weather and animals etc.
A propogation kit for rasing your own seedlings or cuttings
A good compost heap. You can buy compost bins but it’s easy enough to set up your own as well. They supply an invaluable source of organic material for your vegetable garden. Wooden bin or a series of 3 bins is ideal for composting. The front side of the bin should be removable to that you can access the compost easily. You can also take an old rubbish bin, cut the bottom out of it and use that too. When the compost becomes crumbly, it’s ready to use. Good ingredients for your compost are:
o Start the heap with a thick layer of manure or old compost
o Layer of vegetable scraps
o Layer of manure
o Garden scraps such as leaves, grass clippings etc
o Layer of manure …. And so on!
It’s good to turn the heap every two weeks to let oxygen in
The general gardening tools you need to work in the garden such as:
o Gardening gloves
o Rake
o Trowel
o Secateurs
o Hand shovel
o Digging fork
o Pruning tools
o Large Shovel
o String
o Wooden stakes
o Watering system of some kind
o Weed sprayer
For my seed collections I use little brown lunch bags and stored in alphabetical order in a shoe box. It keeps the seeds in a cool dark place but also keeps them ordered and ready to use!

Storage Solutions for Your Garden Supplies

GARDEN SUPPLIES TOOL BOX:

Collect the garden supplies you will need for your task. Do you have a gardening basket you can use to carry your tools around in? Some people use a carpenter’s tool belt which works well to carry the different gardening tools.

Set yourself up with a sturdy pine box with four compartments and a carry handle. In one compartment keep string, tie wires and labels, in another compartment keep secateurs, a small fork, narrow shovel, kitchen knife and other hand tools. The third compartment is for seed packets and the fourth for powders and potions to encourage growth of cuttings or discourage weeds.

GARDEN SUPPLIES SHED STORAGE:

In your garden shed, create a hanging board for all your tools. Get a sheet of plywood and paint it a plain colour (black or white). Gather all your tools together and lay them on top of the board in a neat and decorative pattern. With a contrasting marker, draw around each tool and fill in each shape with a contrasting colour to the background. Insert hooks and nails to help each tool hang neatly over its painted shape and then fix the board to your shed wall. It will help you have a very organized garden shed indeed!

Overall Garden Guide:

Set up an excel spreadsheet that tells you what you need to do in your garden throughout the year. Include as headings the different types of gardens you have (vege patch, flower garden, native garden patch) and then the different jobs you want done in that garden bed over the year (weeding, harvest, what seeds to plant when, mulching etc). You can download your own Garden Planner Guide Here

Print it off, laminate it and pin it up in your shed so your jobs never get out of hand and you never feel overloaded with jobs to do!

Organizing your garden supplies does not have to be difficult if you have a good system. Now it’s just up to you to use the system regularly!

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