[savbo]

A project for this year is to organise my 2 potting benches, in the greenhouses at home and on the plot. What do people think makes for the perfect bench?

My starter for 10...
- compost tray with sides and a high back, to make filling pots and shovelling up compost easy. I'm going to make mine from a sheet of Dibond (aluminium/plastic composite they use for signmaking) that I've come across
- shelves to hand for most commonly-used pot sizes, seed trays, dibbers, tampers, and labels
- a bucket below for spent compost, and another for compostables
- an old towel for cleaning my hands!
 - a watering can always full so it can warm up a bit
- a radio...

sav

[noshed]

A stool to sit on

[plum crumble]

sounds lovely. I'd need the cat to be able to get in and out too. Aaaaah, if only I had the space for one. I' d love to be there, listening to the cricket on the radio, doing my potting on..........

[Optimistic Gardener]

space for the mug of tea...and perhaps a packet of biccies...

[Trillium]

A bucket each for grit and perlite.

[sarajane]

A little jam jar containing  labels and a marker pen  :blink:

[JayG]

An electronic bleeper would be helpful to warn me every time I'm about to bump my stupid head on the stupid roof (shorter legs would also work but might be a bit expensive and/or painful!) 

[Gwiz]

Because our greenhouse is rather small, I use one of these.
As the greenhouse fills up, it can be removed from the bench top to create a little more space for seedlings.

[plum crumble]

I use one of those as well Gwiz, jolly useful.

[savbo]

Gwiz, where's that one from if you don't mind me asking? I could get that for my birthday and save the Dibond for something else. Or throw it away...

sav

[plum crumble]

greenfingers.com (other websites are available, etc) are currently doing it on special for £9.99. It might be cheaper elsewhere.

[Gwiz]

That particular one is from two west and Elliot.
There will be a link to them on this website.

[savbo]

Thanks Gwiz and Plum - identical photos on both sites but cheaper on one...

I've seen another online but it had a corrugated base which seems a bad design to me...

now - should I buy one or two?

[Trillium]

Buy two and send me the second  :blink:

[AndyRVTR]

I bought one of these about 2 years ago and I find it ideal, especially the side where you can store things like dibbers, trowel etc.. 

http://www.diy.com/nav/garden/garden-care-watering/growing/growing_pots___saucers/-specificproducttype-potting_benches/Sankey-Multipurpose-Handy-Bench-Green-W-520-x-L-600mm-9436522