Where do you keep your garden chemicals??

I'd like to tap into all of you, and see where everybody keeps their garden chemicals. I have a really nice potting shed, which used to be attached to a trailer house, and has a "mantle" shelf, which used to set above the wood burner. (I did not get the wood burner for insurance reasons).
This is where I have most of my garden "stuff". I am talking Round UP and all the other weed applications, as well as bug stuff, and fertilizers. Milorganite, Rose Food, etc. etc. etc.

Here is my problem, THEY STINK! My cute potting shed reeks. I thought about getting Rubbermaid Tubs to store most of it in, but it is so convenient out where I can just grab what I need. I'm interested to hear what everyone else does.......many of these things you just use a bit a year, and some years none at all, (Bug Stuff) so to use them up is not an option. Legit

I keep mine in the tool shed.

Things in bottles shouldn't be smelling unless they're left open. You sure the milwaulkee sewage isn't the real culprit? Put things like that in 5gal buckets with a lid that snaps on. Kitty litter containers work well too.

I work out of my garage and all the sprays are shelves near the doors. I bend the tops of open bags of fertilizer and stuff over then cinch one of those zip ties down. Besides smoking there's the open garbage can for crushed beer cans. It could get aromatic in there.

Do the same thing you do in your house or vehicle. I burn big candles or incense off and on, besides having the doors open almost daily since I'm out there every day. The other thing I've done that worked well. Get your favorite scented car freshener and hang in the rafters. In fact I'm fixing to hang a few this afternoon.

8ftbed, LOL, I don't think the MW sewage is getting to me 50 miles north of Green Bay!!!

Maybe the biggest problem is that I don't spend enough time in and out of there!!! My DH wants to know constantly why I don't actually POT in my POTTING SHED. He just won't buy my answers that it is more for storage than potting, you'd think I pulled off a large scam asking for a potting shed, and not potting in it!!!!

I think the main smelly thing is fertilzer, especially in this crummy hot humid weather. Better containers would def. help. legit

BTW, I ended up with a few thriving var. dogwoods inspite of the blasted drought this year, thank you! Legit

if you're spreading Milorganite around, you're walking around in pureed Wisconsin Sea Pickles. I think it stands for Milwaulkee Organic something but it's composted sewage treatment plant sludge. That would be your "smelly fertilizer" maybe? :)

from a website :
The city has produced the 100% natural organic fertilizer product, a co-product of the city's waste water treatment process, since 1926 making Milorganite the real grandfather of all fertilizers in the turf industry.
I believe that human based smell is what's turned out to be good deterrant for deer as well. I got the same result by hanging nylon feet stuffed with hair from the barbershop around a veggie garden for a friend one year.

I was just going back through mail send requests for updates on stuff I've sent out. Glad you got some going. Now you can make a bunch more next spring.



This message was edited Aug 9, 2005 12:47 PM

I got the Milorganite for the purpose of deer deterrant in the first place, but then I couldn't take it any longer, and put up a 6ft. chain link fence on 3 sides of the property. Now I haven't needed the Milorganite any longer, and I would use it up as fertilizer, but it's pretty hard to use fertilizer when it never rains. It would just sit there and stink forever!!

I watched the fence being tested last Saturday morning around 6AM when a deer came out of the woods across the road. The apple trees are dropping their excess apples mostly due to dryness, and there is quite a few on the ground inside the fence. He looked and switched his tail everytime he/she looked into the yard. I think he was calculating how bad he really wanted the apples. He walked about a 100 feet down the fence, and off into the field, so, score one for the fence! This time!!! So far we haven't seen anything inside except a fawn that probably came in thru the horse pasture at the back, and we chased that little bugger right back where he came from!! Legit