Potting sheds - are they worth it?

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Does anyone own one and would you recommend them? I find myself waiting for dry / non windy days to sow my seed trays etc and then have them all around my my conservatory to germinate where they inevitable grow leggy. I have room for some sort of shed and was wondering if to invest in a potting shed but not sure how much it would get used etc. I don't have a huge budget and it would be unseen from the house. Any experience / advise / recommendations gratefully appreciated 🙂

Don't bother - go for a small greenhouse instead with staging that you can plant seeds on and space for your seedlings so that they don't go leggy.

I agree with Bert2e. Small greenhouse.
I've a potting shed and it's very hit and miss what grows. Still end up using my house windowsills. Especually at the moment in the wet windy not much sunshine North.
Wish I had gone for a small greenhouse.

Also agree with a greenhouse. That way you can have tender plants in your garden that you can bring in in winter, grow tomatoes in summer and have somewhere to store your gardening kit, a light place to work on wet days and to bring seedlings on. All you need then is the radio and a cuppa an you're in heaven.

Sheds are dark and always seem to need fettling of some nature.

I agree, always go for a greenhouse rather than a shed.

I have a potting shed, my lovely dad built it for me but tbh I would rather have a greenhouse, the potting shed doesn’t give me enough space for my seedlings and is not as light as a greenhouse so all my seedlings grow at a angle (towards the light), it makes a great shed but I think eventually I will get a greenhouse too.

A potting shed is nothing to do with gardening, it's where you go to hide and listed to Radio 4.

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Thank you all🙏 so now I am thinking a greenhouse would be better! Any cheaper recommendations prob 6x6 maybe 6x8 at a push ??

I use my conservatory as my potting shed. I don't think a potting shed would improve your current potting experience.

I debated a greenhouse but they're so easily damaged and I don't think seedlings would grow any faster. I have plugs for grow lights in the early stages if I need them.

Go for the biggest one you can. I’ve got a 6x8 and it’s already full and it’s only April. I love pottering about in it.

you’ll often see them for free on FB if you’ll dismantle it. I paid for mine and someone to put it together as I’m not handy like that. Friend got end of line one at garden centre and handyman they recommended put it up.

The advantage for me of greenhouse over conservatory is that husband would have a blue fit at my taking over conservatory.

I find the greenhouse isn't ideal for storage of any equipment as the combination of glass and intense heat/sun (when we get it!) makes things deteriorate quickly. The shed is much better if it's storage you're after. I also need to be quite careful when potting up or using equipment in the greenhouse as it's (obvs) all glass so I don't want to be knocking anything accidently with my trowel. I use the greenhouse to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, chillies. And I start all my seeds off in there for planting veg outdoors.

i have a potting shed and a greenhouse and i would be without either. I store all the gardening tools and pot up in the potting shed, and grown everything in the green house. If i had to only have a green house then i’d have a big one to grow stuff and pot on, and just have a shed for the tools.

I have a potting shed and a small 6 x 4 greenhouse, and they both get used all the time. Potting shed is useful to pot up and on, and also on rainy days to potter. Obviously storage of tools etc as well

I use the area under the staging for storage so no direct sun. If I were doing it again, and money no limit, I’d have a wall up to bench height, for insulation, with the glass down to ground level (or top of pot level) only where I was growing cucumbers.