Garden shed base

Hello dear house-building community,

within the next two weeks, work will be carried out on the outdoor area.

For next year, we are also planning to purchase a garden shed (maybe 2x2 m). However, we want to have the ground prepared for this already now.

And now to the topic:
How would you lay the "base"?
I am thinking of a gravel layer (we would have this delivered now). Should this layer then protrude X cm?
My father gave me the tip of a strip foundation. Less because of the lack of stability, but more because of the potential flying properties he once observed at a neighbor (he suggests an additional anchoring in concrete).
My wife wants to put in geotextile fabric. This is a kind of stronger weed fabric, but it is also used, for example, for slope stabilization.

What do you think? What makes sense? What should be considered (e.g. regarding the protrusion of the gravel layer)?

Hello,
even though the outdoor area is only planned for next year for us, I am currently already thinking along similar lines.

I think the substructure also depends on what you plan to do inside the garden shed and whether it has its own floor.

At the moment, I tend to go for strip foundations and gravel in between, or alternatively a simple slab. However, my shed will also have its own floor and will be a bit larger.
If the shed has no floor of its own, I would border the area with edge stones and lay some kind of paving on gravel and grit in between, so you have a clean base. I think that should be sufficient for a 2x2 m garden shed. [Laienmeinung]
That’s definitely how I will prepare the base for the adjacent wooden shelter.

In any case, you should ask the (potential) manufacturer / seller of the shed.

By the way, I have a brochure here from Holz Paulus (you can also find it via Google with these terms). They had a few houses exhibited at the Saar trade fair that made a good impression. The prices were absolutely reasonable.

Hello, we simply had a layer of gravel laid and then compacted. When the small house of a similar size arrived, we just placed concrete slabs as a base and then started with the wooden substructure.

Hello, we simply had a layer of gravel laid and then compacted. When the shed of a similar size came, we just laid concrete slabs as a base

that's how we did it too - just without the wooden base. Our garden shed is so heavy that no wind will lift or move it. We built a garden shed ourselves from solid wood.

We will also build one ourselves according to the modified construction plan of my parents-in-law. No own floor, paved ground, screwed into it.

Thank you very much for the tips. I will discuss it with my in-house gardener (die geliebte Ehefrau) and my family’s internal perfectionist (Vater), but I think we will choose from the two mentioned options.