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Organize Your Next Garden Project on a Vision Board

January 3, 2015 By Karen Creel

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Gardeners are always waiting for “next spring”,  dreaming of our next garden  or our next garden project.  At any given time I have at LEAST 5-6 ideas in my head for “next years garden”.   Hometalk clip boards, Pinterest boards, sticky notes and piles of magazines hold my thoughts and ideas, but those are not always in front of me, and certainly can’t be carried with me as I go searching for  supplies, flowers, or finds.

Garden Shed Vision Board

After creating a  board for my business, Gardenchick, I decided a vision board for my next garden project, a combination potting shed and chicken coop was a great idea.  I  collected all my pictures, magazine clippings ( I knew those stacks of magazines downstairs would come in handy!)  notes and sat down to create my perfect garden project.

Magazines

If you would rather have something you can carry along and keep with you, you can place your ideas in a notebook.  Either way you have a clear picture of what you want, and not be distracted.

Garden shed notebook ideasI knew what I wanted, and what I didn’t want.  I didn’t want a prefabricated or standard garden shed.  I wanted to use repurposed materials that supported my “flea market” garden theme. I began placing my photos, pictures from magazines, and words that created a visual picture of my planned project on my poster board.

Salvaged garden shed

As a collector of “garden junk”,  I knew I wanted to incorporate some of my finds in the shed.  Old tools as door handles, lighting repurposed from flea market visits and other junking finds, scattered throughout and around the shed.

vision board blog 3

I would need storage, and wanted to bring in old cabinets for my gardening books, pots, seeds, and small garden tools. Seeing the old box with potting soil in it reminded me of a great old coca cola container I have that would be perfect.  I have several small ladders that would look great on a potting bench for storage.

storage in potting shed for blog post

 And of course, last but not least, I would need a potting table. This is one thing that I will definitely have to be on the look out for.

Potting table

Vision boards are great to help you keep focused on what you want.  Place it in an area where you will see it often.  It won’t be long until you have gathered everything you need to create your next garden project.

Vision board

Happy Gardening

Karen

Garden Shed Vision Board Collage

 

 

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Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age.  I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers.  Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch.  I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard.  My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden.  He had me help him  plant a garden in May before he died in August.  So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together.  I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.

 

 

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