Greenhouse Staging Tables:
With surging food prices, increased awareness of food provenance, and a growing desire to minimise food waste and cut down on ‘food miles’, there has never been a better time to start growing your own fruit and vegetables. Whether you start small with just a few herbs or go all-out with a full-scale veg plot or an allotment, there’s something incredibly satisfying about
nurturing something from seed, watching it grow, and then harvesting it to eat that very day. A greenhouse, of course, extends the growing season, gets your seeds off to the best possible start and allows you to grow more tender plants that wouldn’t fare well outside. In order to grow well in a greenhouse, plants need three things: access to light, good air circulation, and regular and consistent watering and feeding. That’s where greenhouse staging tables come in handy - they’re perfectly designed to maximise space utilisation, allow excellent airflow and make it simple and straightforward for you to water and feed your plants. Let’s take an in-depth look at what makes a good staging table…
What Is A Staging Table? A greenhouse staging table is a long thin table, positioned along the sides of a greenhouse, for standing starter trays on, from when you sow your seeds to the point at which your seedlings are ready to be transplanted into larger pots or outside in their final growing position. They can also be used to stand tender plants on during the winter, when they wouldn’t survive outside in the colder temperatures. A greenhouse staging table needs to be fairly narrow, so that you can fit one along each side of your greenhouse and potentially across the back wall too, whilst still having enough room to move about freely to tend to your plants. What Are Staging Tables Made Of? Staging tables are often made of wood or aluminium, but there are downsides to both of these choices. As they are subjected to high temperatures and constant exposure to water, wooden staging tables can soon start to look shabby and can even warp and split where water gets into the grain of the wood. Aluminium staging tables are lightweight, but that means that they are susceptible to being bent or damaged if too much weight is placed on them. In contrast, Copagrey’s innovative steel staging tables are durable, long-lasting and reliable. Made from premium-grade steel, these tables are tough enough to withstand the knocks and bumps that are inevitable as you work in the greenhouse, and they can withstand heat and moisture extremely well. They’re easy to clean and to disinfect too, which is vital in keeping your greenhouse environment healthy and free from plant diseases. Staging Design And Accessories:
Our staging tables typically have two shelves, in order to maximise the available space. There’s plenty of room between the lower shelf and the top shelf, so your plants have ample space to grow and to receive light through the greenhouse windows. The shelves of the staging are slatted, to provide excellent airflow and drainage throughout, even when they are filled with trays of seedlings. To make even more use of your available space, staging table toppers are available. These work as an extra ‘mini shelf’, sitting at the back of the main shelves, to provide another half-height shelf. Pop small plant pots on the topper, and then place your seed trays as normal on the main shelf - even with the topper in place, there’s still lots of room for everything to grow well and get enough light. In addition to our traditional staging tables, we also offer options for wall mounted staging racks, for lean-to greenhouses that are attached to a house wall. Irrigation systems can also be combined easily with our staging tables, to make light work of the daily task of watering your seedlings and plants. Outdoor Use:
If you have a sheltered spot in your garden, why not install some staging tables outdoors, for hardening off your young plants before planting them out? Whilst aluminium tables would likely blow over or get damaged easily in an outdoor setting, our high-performance steel tables can take outdoor use in their stride, performing well in any weather, and maintaining their good looks through years of use. Likewise, where wooden staging would soon start to look tired when exposed to the sun’s harsh UV rays, our steel staging tables will continue to look smart and professional, no matter what the weather brings. Growing your own has never been easier or more enjoyable! Whether you have the smallest of lean-to greenhouses or a luxury greenhouse that professional gardeners would envy, our steel greenhouse staging tables will help you get the very most from your growing space, ensuring strong and healthy crops to be proud of. Potting Tables:
When it comes to growing your own plants, whether they’re fruit and vegetables or flowers and garden shrubs, getting things off to the very best start is key. That means choosing the right compost, ensuring your plant pots are clean and the right size, and potting each plant up with care and attention. Creating the right environment for this part of your gardening adventure makes it an enjoyable way to spend time, rather than a chore. A good potting bench can make a world of difference when it comes to propagation and potting on. What Makes A Good Potting Bench? Potting tables and benches come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, to suit different garden environments. Some people place their potting bench in their greenhouse, some have a dedicated potting shed, and some even site their potting bench outdoors, in a sheltered corner of their garden or yard. Whilst most potting benches have traditionally been made from either wood or aluminium, our benches are made of premium-grade steel, making them ideally suited to any location, either under cover or outdoors. The design of a potting bench is important too. The table area needs to be deep and wide, so that you can tip your compost on it, and still have plenty of room to pot up individual plants and seed trays. If the potting table is on the small side, the gardener will constantly have to move pots and trays somewhere else, in order to get on with the next lot. With our generously-sized benches, there’s plenty of room to position compost, trays, pots, labels, seeds and seedlings, and once potted up, plants can be placed to the side until you’re ready to take them to the greenhouse, cold frame or another location. With all that compost on top of the potting bench, it’s important to have a retaining edge along the sides and back of the bench. This keeps the compost on the table and avoids spillages and mess. When it comes to tidying up after your potting session, simply sweep your compost off the front edge and back into your compost bag or a garden trug. All of our potting tables and greenhouse benches are made of high-grade steel, which makes cleaning up a breeze. Simply wipe off any compost with a stiff brush, then wipe down with a wet cloth. Since good plant hygiene is essential for healthy crops and successful gardening, disinfecting your potting bench should be part of your regular gardening tasks, and as steel is so easy to clean, it makes the perfect choice of material for our range of potting benches. Making Best Use Of Your Space:
As any keen gardener will tell you, no matter how big your garden is, or how spacious your greenhouse or potting shed, there is always a need to maximise space. That’s why we’ve designed our steel potting benches to include either one or two lower shelves, as well as the main potting bench at the top. Each shelf can be used to store things like seed trays, plant pots, rooting powder, labels, gloves and other sundries. When you’re ready to start potting up your plants or sowing seeds, everything you need is close at hand, making the task so much more enjoyable and straightforward. Choosing The Right Potting Bench:
Before you decide on a particular model, think carefully about what space you have available and where your bench will be located. Do you have space in a potting shed, or even in an ordinary shed? Do you plan to use part of your greenhouse instead, or maybe you intend to keep your potting bench in a sheltered spot outdoors? If space is tight, have you considered a folding potting bench that you can set up when you need it, and store flat when you’ve finished? Another consideration when choosing the best potting bench for your needs is how much potting up, seed sowing and propagation you are planning to do. If you just plan to sow a few tomatoes and courgettes each year, but not much more, then a smaller bench will fit the bill perfectly. However, if you have a substantial vegetable garden, a polytunnel or allotment or a large flower garden, you may find that the smaller benches aren’t really big enough to allow you to spread out all of the pots, trays, compost and seedlings that you need. Our extra large potting benches may suit you better if you grow a significant amount of plants or you sow a wide variety of seeds each year. Get your gardening off to the best possible start with a sturdy, durable and long-lasting potting bench from Copagrey. Built to last and to look good through years of use, our potting benches set the standard when it comes to quality gardening equipment. Seed Tray Tables:
Growing plants from seeds is one of the most satisfying and enjoyable parts of gardening, saving you money and even helping you take a step towards self-sufficiency. There’s nothing to compare with the joy of seeing those tiny seedlings break the surface of the soil and unfurl those first tiny leaves, stretching up to the light at what seems like an incredible rate in the first few days. To help get your seeds off to the very best start, good preparation is important, and storing your seed trays sensibly is part of that preparation. The very best way to start off most seeds is in a seed tray. These offer just the right depth of potting compost for roots to get established, and they make best use of available space, as multiple seeds can be sown in each tray. In order to store your seed trays safely and to avoid knocking them over, using a seed tray table is a great idea. These tables are typically smaller than greenhouse staging tables, and are perfectly sized to take standard seed trays. Like staging tables, they are generally slatted in design, to allow for easy drainage after watering, and to permit air to circulate easily. They can be placed in a greenhouse or polytunnel, or even in a plastic pop-up grow tent - wherever you plan to start your seeds off, in fact. Our seed tray tables are made from high-grade steel, ensuring strength and reliability over many years of use. They are smart and built with ease of use in mind, making them the perfect choice for keen gardeners everywhere. Seedlings need to have the best possible growing environment from the start, and our seed tray tables are incredibly easy to clean and to disinfect, so good plant husbandry is simple and straightforward. Why Do I Need A Seed Tray Table? You may be tempted to think that you can simply store your trays of seeds in any available place in the greenhouse or polytunnel, but there are a number of reasons why this might not be the best idea. Any gardener will tell you that it’s heartbreaking to accidentally knock over a seed tray full of young plants that have recently germinated, and having a dedicated table to put all of those seed trays completely avoids this possibility. Standing seed trays on the soil in your greenhouse or polytunnel could allow insects to gain access to your tasty seedlings. Keeping your trays of seedlings off the ground in an organised way keeps them free from pests and diseases, and allows you to monitor their growth quickly and easily, saving space at the same time. Check out our 5 tier seed tray tables today, to make your seed propagation tasks simple and successful. Join our newsletter today and be notified when our range of 5 tier Seeding Tables become available.
