Garden shelving and shelves for storing tools and items in sheds and garages for uk gardeners. You can choose from wooden shelving or metal shelves or simple garden racks to put boxes on with your gardening items for a neat and tidy solution so you can find everything quickly.
It also helps keep fertilizers, weed killer and other harmful substances out of reach of children and apart from paints, plant pots, bulbs and other materials. Some shelving units can be bolted to a garage floor and most racking can take a lot of weight but just ensure you stack items properly so the rack doesn't fall over and injure someone.
You can add shelves in your garden itself by the greenhouse or other areas such as your vegetable
garden to keep what you need at hand. Good quality shelving is power coded or in aluminium so they
don't rust and are easy to keep clean just by wiping the surfaces. You can choose from many colours
including natural, green, black, white and sometimes terracota. There are also plastic varieties which
won't rust but might not be able to carry the same weight as metal shelves.
Greenhouse shelving
units make for a tidy place to put your cuttings and vegetable plants no matter what stage of growth you
are at. Greenhouse staging allows you to place the shelf at the height you need for easy access to
be able to water and pot plants easily.
Choose one with slats which is useful in the winter months where plants don't require so much water but need ventilation.
All DIY stores will sell shelving kits and shelving rack brackets that you can easily put up yourself if you know how to use a drill. There are stand alone cabinet shelving or simple structures made of steel that are quick and easy to assemble like an ikea kit.