The troubles with garden sheds and green houses

It's the summer time again and today is the first day that I have felt a heat like no other in a long time. I say like no other, but obviously it has only been just less than a year since the last summer was here. My garden is the real indication of the changing seasons and now I can appreciate it a lot more by sitting outside now with a cool class of something tasty and lap up the sun. Lap lap. I'm planning a BBQ this weekend too, along with what will be, from now on, weekly lawn mowing, hedge pruning and weed killing, but that's what makes the summer garden a fun garden.  Right? I am looking forward to building my new shed as I have found some amazing shed designs on the Internet which guide me through, step by step, the build process from the foundations to the very last piece of roofing tile. I know that building a shed in this way will be a lot less cost effective than buying a pre-packed metal shed or other cheap garden shed, or will it? Maybe buying my own materials won't save me money after all. That sounds like something I will have to look into.

I'm tempted that once my shed is up and running to move into it, almost like a holiday home for the summer, a little place for myself, but it's a shed, not a logcabin. Maybe if I turned the shed into a one room little garden office then I could still enjoy the benefits of the outside garden atmosphere with all the comforts of a genuine office, but that might be short lived, unless I installed some sort of heater for when the cold comes... but that still leaves me with a pile of garden tools that need a home. I would suggest the same could be done with green houses but I think that come the cooler days I will be feeling a little too cold and slightly too hot when the temperature peaks in the middle of summer.

That reminds me that I need my green house looking at; I know I need to replace the door after an unfortunate incident with my grandson and his football, but where can you go for green house spares and accessories? How common are green house door sizes? Do I need a double glazed door and do they even exist? Good questions if I do say so myself. I'm thinking that I want to keep the pests out when the tomatoes start ripening as I can only imagine the disappointment on my face when it comes to harvest and all I can find are mouse sized teeth marks in what would be perfect vegetable specimens. Maybe I should invest in some good pest deterrents like mouse traps and other weed killers.

That's another thing, the cost of garden protection mounts up, once you have budgeted in all the costs of garden tools, spades, forks, gloves a new hozelock hose because my cheaper quality one had 54 holes in it you end up spending a small fortune, but it's justified as you can't put a price on the happiness that the summer garden can bring you and you certainly can't get tired of being outside in the fresh air working on something that has no deadlines, no time limit and will look good once the sun hits it.

Now lets just hope it doesn’t rain.