At the back of our yard against the fence, six old apple crates are stacked up like shelves. My mom has owned about twenty of these crates for ten years or so. Well, she probably doesn’t have that many anymore, but I think she might have ten or twelve. A farmer sold them to her for some obscenely cheap amount, like a dollar each. Many of them had lids, too. She used them for a long time to store all kinds of things, in lieu of an indoor storage unit. For awhile I used one as an end table. It went perfectly with the rest of my university-era furniture.
When my mom moved in with us in May, she brought along several of these crates to store her gardening supplies. They sat at the side of our house all closed up until recently, when she moved them down to the back of our yard, near the compost pile and closer to her garden. They look really great back there, and will be perfect for storing her pots, shovels and other gardening things.
What gardening storage solutions have you devised?
