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Inevitably, you need designated areas in your home landscape for storing things when you aren’t using them and to avoid clutter. Vehicles may or may not go in the garage along with your gardening equipment, tools, and supplies.

When creating your landscape design, make sure you don’t forget your storage needs. Here are some ideas:

 Storage shed: You may need a shed dedicated to yard and garden maintenance if you don’t already have one. Having one for your tools and garden supplies can help alleviate any crowding in your garage. (Or if you don’t have a garage, a shed is a great place to keep all your yard gadgets and tools.) Think about how big it needs to be and where you want it. Don’t forget to figure out if will block access or sun. Last but not least, for security and safety, be sure it has a latching or locking door.

 Potting shed: These often look like playhouses, complete with shuttered windows and windowboxes, but they can be as practical as they are cute. Install shelves and hooks, a utility or dry sink, a potting bench, and hanging nesting wire baskets for storing gardening tools and supplies. You can also use a shed as a cool, dry place to dry freshly harvested bundles of herbs and to store stacked unused pots. (A she-shed is similar but may be less practical. It may look the same on the outside, but inside, harbors a comfy snoozing or reading nook, or art supplies.)

 Storage bins: These can be anything from weather-tough plastic bins with fitted lids that get stashed somewhere until needed to the outdoor equivalent of a parson’s bench — that is, a bench on your deck or patio whose seat lifts up to allow storage within.

 Outdoor closet: This can be tall and skinny and perhaps fit into a corner. It’s a place to store or hang long-handled tools such as rakes and shovels as well as perhaps a coiled hose and other useful items.

Make a list of items you expect to be storing; doing so helps clarify what you have and where you plan to put it. If you’re good with numbers, you can go ahead and calculate the amount of space (volume) your stored tool collection would require and then you’ll really know the size you need.