Garden Stool Ideas

Bucket Basic Stool

• For the ultimate highly functional garden stool, you cannot do better than to recycle a 5-gallon lidded bucket. Check with restaurants or your grocer's deli for free buckets. Place your seeds and garden gear inside, snap on the lid and head to the garden. With the lid in place, everything stays dry and safe so you can even leave it out in the rain or sprinklers. Add a cushion to the top for a softer seat and you can remove the lid to use as a kneeling pad as well. Paint with specially formulated plastic paint to jazz up the color if the utilitarian look does not appeal to you.

Folding Camp Stool

• If you do a lot of camping, you may already have one of these nifty folding stools. Otherwise, you can find them at any outdoor gear store or online. Get one with a canvas seat that includes hanging pouches or pockets for drinks and books so you can stow your small trowels, nippers and other garden tools where they will be handy. When you are not weeding and planting, this stool does double duty as a patio chair -- or you could even take it camping.

Little Red Wagon

• If you crave a rolling garden stool but hate the price tag, dig out that old kid's wagon that has cluttered up the garage for years and put it to good use. Drop the handle out of the way, toss a cushion in it and make yourself comfortable. It makes a great wide seat for weeding and harvesting the vegetable beds, and the extra space gives you a place for your tools. When you are not sitting in it, you can use it to haul seed flats or fresh vegetables.

Step Stool Plus

• Nearly everyone has a wooden step stool around the house for getting to those high cabinets in the kitchen or closet, but most have never discovered how comfortable they are as seating. Take yours to the garden and try it out for size. It is just the right height for weeding or planting, and a lot more comfortable than crawling around on the wet ground. Screw a couple of washed tin cans to the perimeter as holsters for your trowels or seed packets and you are in business. If you do not have a step stool, build one using one of the many simple and free online plans.