When most people are considering garden buildings for their allotment, they only think of standard garden sheds, and while these do have benefits and a place (both in your allotment and on this blog!), there is so much more out there that can help you take your allotment from ordinary to extraordinary.
Potting Shed
Year-Round Use
If you are familiar with us, you may know that we love creating buildings for year-round use. This is because we don’t want the joy you get out of your outside space to be confined to the warmer months. We crafted the potting shed so that you don’t have to only experience the joy of gardening at one time or with one type of plant. Grow whenever and whatever you desire. This is perfect for allotments.
Protect younglings and delicate plants
Protect more delicate plants or start some out well before planting them outside. This can also allow you to tend to plants and garden even when it is cold or wet outside, thus ensuring you make the most of the allotment, and you can also keep an eye on the rest of the plants in your plot through the expansive glass panels.
Versatile Space
With the storage and security of a shed and the growing potential of a greenhouse, you get the best of both worlds, striking a perfect balance and making it an excellent multipurpose space. This blend takes it beyond its original purpose of a place to nurture plants to somewhere with multiple possibilities. The glazed panels are brilliant for not only giving you beautiful views of your allotment, but also letting in an abundance of natural light. This light can help you see your task more clearly.
Pergola
Visual Interest and Maximising Space
Growing vertically is an excellent way to maximise space in your allotment, as it utilises the often untapped area above your allotment. When space is a premium, this can be a game-changer. Add structure to your plants and expand your space by utilising vertical space with a pergola. This will encourage the use of different plants, giving your allotment variety, such as giving you the opportunity to use trailing plants.
Add visual interest by making the most of layers in your allotment to draw the eye upwards. You need not use your allotment just for gardening; use a pergola as an architectural structure to enter into the realm of landscaping. Consider experimenting with adding lights. You don’t just have to enjoy your allotment in the morning or afternoon, but can also unwind in nature in the evening and adding lights will make the space usable and interesting.
Shade
It also provides shade for both you and your plants, so use it strategically to provide shaded spaces in your allotment, which, unless you have managed to get a plot at the edges, are in an open space and probably lack these shaded places. Your plants, just like you, can get sunburnt, stressed from the heat, and dehydrated. Having shaded areas in your allotment can help mitigate these issues by blocking the sun a certain times, which helps retain water, control temperature, and restrict light. It also gives you a haven from the sun so that you can enjoy your gardening without overheating.
Divide your allotment
A pergola can be an excellent way to help make dedicated spaces for different functions. It lets you want to separate your allotment space between:
- Relaxing area
- Vegetable garden
- Flower garden
- Herb garden
- Workshop area
- Shed area
- Kids’ gardening and play area
- Activity area
This division of the space can make it usable for multiple different people; you don’t have to have the same hobbies as your friends and family to spend time with them.
Arbour
Sit and appreciate your allotment
With the release of our new arbour ranges, the Apocallipos and Somersets, along with our tried-and-loved Jasmine and Gerlinde ranges, you can find the perfect place to sit and enjoy your allotment. A place to rest, plan and shelter from the showers of the variable British weather. If you’ve put work into your allotment, it is nice to take the time to appreciate all you’ve done and bring your friends and family to do the same (maybe over a picnic!).
Spend time with loved ones
Bring your non-gardening friends and family, maybe bring a picnic, so you can garden and spend time with them at the same time. Some of your loved ones may relish the chance to see you in your element on the allotment or just want to experience reconnecting with nature. Why not welcome them to your allotment with somewhere lovely to relax? Thus encouraging to spend more time at your allotment.
Shed
Smaller sheds mean more room for gardening, while bigger sheds mean more versatility. It’s all about personal preference.
Maximise space for your preferences
With the somewhat limited space allotments offer, especially on half or quarter-sized allotments, a small to medium shed allows you to maximise your garden space and have a smart storage solution. Think about a larger shed if you have enough space for socialising, more storage or a workshop. Allotments don’t just have to be used for gardening, and a bigger shed is perfect, making use of your allotment to be a social space or to pursue other hobbies.
Shed Secure Storage
Gardening in your allotment should be a peaceful and enjoyable experience, so why add the stress of fretting about what to do with your tools, spare soil, and other gardening equipment? Instead, get a shed and take a load off (metaphorically and literally!). With tongue and groove cladding, pressure treatment (with a 10-year guarantee) and a secure hinge and lock system, remove worries about weather deterioration and sticky fingers.
Organise
Have somewhere to put your things and keep your allotment tidy in order to enjoy your space, get more meaningful things done while you’re there – you don’t want to go to your allotment for a bit of gardening only to realise you can’t find your trowel. This storage space can also increase the aesthetic appeal as it assists in controlling levels of clutter in your allotment. To make your time in allotment even more enjoyable having your shed organised would be ideal.
Save time and effort
Visiting your allotment and gardening is your hobby, don’t let chores like cleaning and travelling get in the way, not to mention the detrimental impact of forgetting your gardening equipment. Get rid of those worries with an allotment shed. This easy accessibility to your belongings can improve the allotment in its entirety – one small change and one great gain.
We hope this blog has inspired you to think about all the possibilities your allotment holds and maybe even given you some new ideas about what you want to do with your allotment.
Before you can get these fantastic garden building you first need to find out how to start your allotment journey!
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