By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer
Handy husbands are a blessing. Nina Mueller has one. When she saw a storage device for nursery pots and other small garden paraphernalia on page 48 of the most recent issue of Smith & Hawkin she liked but didn't want to pay the price for, her husband Steve offered to build her something similar. Below is what it looks like. The upslanted edges of the shelves that keep everything neatly in place were inspired by chicken coops.
Nina's friends in her Lake Forest Garden Club all covet her new chicken coop cubbies structure. And I bet everyone that tours through the Muellers' garden on May 3--it's on the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour--will want one for themselves as well. So we asked Steve if he would share his construction plans and he was kind of enough to comply. If you have a handy husband, he can take it from here.
