I was browsing through gardening sites earlier today trying to get ideas for our garden and I came across this fantastic Outdoor Sink Station.
I don’t know about you, but each spring and then in early summer I spend a lot of time outdoors planting seedlings that I’ve grown indoors during the late winter and early spring months, or flats of plants that I’ve purchased from a local nursery.
Planting is messy business! Heck, even weeding or spending time putting fresh soil and compost on the garden is a dirty job.
Rather than trudge inside with dirty hands (my shoes, socks and clothing are usually well dusted too!) it would be nice to have a sink outdoors.
An outdoor sink would also come in handy when it comes time to pluck radishes, carrots, potatoes and other veggies from the soil. You could easily give them a rinse before bringing them into your kitchen.
If you use your backyard and or garden for entertaining guests – sitting outdoors barbecuing on the grill and eating outdoors it might also be handy to have a sink nearby.
What I really like about this Outdoor Sink Station is that there’s also a full size hose located at the bottom of the station. So you might end up having access to a hose closer to the garden than you did in the past. Plus the outdoor sink hose reel has a water-powered engine inside which uses water power to automatically reel-in the hose!
I like the idea but I’m not impressed with plastics some of these things are made of. I can see myself building something similar since it would prove very useful. My wife has been hinting about an outdoor sink for too long. And I need a larger reel that doesn’t fall over when pulling a couple hundred feet of hose.
I really like the idea of an outdoor sink, however I think I’d want one with more of a counter in order to do some planting beside the sink or place dishes or pots if we were BBQ’ing outdoors.
That is a fantastic outdoor sink station! Thanks for the post. Fortunately I was able to browse on by and catch this. I’m definitely bookmarking this. It looks very space-efficient too. That’s a plus.
I’ve never thought about an outdoor sink before. That makes perfectly good since to me. Not having to crouchover the water spicket would save my back for sure
We’ve had this for years. It’s brilliant. We keep ours out year round too. The retracting hose is helpful. I use it all the time so I don’t have to walk paste spiders to turn the hose on.