Expensive Garden Workspace Furniture Versus the Inexpensive

In my years of working with gardeners, I have found that there are two types. The ones that spring for expensive workspace tables, and the ones that wing it with a small, or no budget at all. Neither identified the more or less committed gardeners, not does it always coordinate with those with more money.

Those who furnish to impress, go for things like oversized cedar potting benches, matching framed chalkboards, and coordinating tool holders. They will have spend several hundreds of dollars or pounds on their gorgeous garden workshop furniture. This does often make a statement that implies the gardener is very serious about their outdoor work, but it is not always so.

And those in the other camp, they will have rigged unused pieces of household furniture, or been inventive with articles that they have found at market sales. But, you need not belong to one or the other groups, you can be in the middle if you do the following.

Attach a sheet of brightly painted lattice to the wall of your work area to hang your tools, and paint the frame of an otherwise unimpressive chalkboard to match or coordinate. Then, get yourself one of those fairly inexpensive rectangular plastic outdoor garden tables and cover it with an adorable oil cloth with dimensions that will conceal every inch of the table. And in a pattern with colors that compliment those of the lattice and board frame.