How do get rid of spiders around my shed?

You'll need to get rid of the ones you have first, maybe sweep them outside (some people vacuum them but I can't do that). Then to reduce new visitors, try spraying or wiping around the inside of the shed and around the door with white vinegar. We usually leave a couple of small bowls of vinegar inside, on a shelf or on the floor and keep the bowls topped up. We find this helps a lot, but doesn't stop them completely.

You'll never keep them out, you're wasting your time.

I have heard Essential oils like peppermint, tea tree, eucalyptus, or citrus can deter spiders.

Why do people hate nature so much?

Know where I'm going, There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die

Could be wrong but I had a few house spiders for years and after a while got sick of webs in house so i either trapped them and took them outside or sprayed ones in corners i couldnt catch with insect killer. I have kept a spider free house since then. HOWEVER could be coinicidence i notice silverfish in my house first time ever since i went with no Zero tolerance policy on spiders! Could be coincidence! but i wont be kicking out anymore spiders, prefer them to silverfish!

was going to say the same.

I don't get this at all. Do some people need to constantly prove their mastery of all they survey? Is that why they can't tolerate the presence of tiny, harmless spiders?

Is it insecurity? Paranoia? Do they think the spiders are a threat?

Maybe are they just able to ignore everything we see happening around us, the loss of habitat and biodiversity, the fact that we are in an extinction phase. Or maybe they acknowledge this and their own part in it, but they just don't care.

Little spiders. That's what's living on your shed OP. They're not going to damage it, they won't bite you, you won't get tangled up in their webs and eaten by a passing squirrel. Leave them to it.

Maybe I was just unlucky, but some really do bite, as I discovered. Bitten twice in the past two summers by house spiders while cleaning, last year on the knee, this year on the ankle. The swelling and itching took weeks to calm down even with using anti-histamines and cortisone cream, and the mark is still visible on my ankle after three months. Not a fan, but we try to keep them out rather than kill them. Will try the conkers tip alongside the vinegar we currently use, hopefully it will help.

Yes some spiders do bite, we have been bitten in the garden several times in the past couple of years, 3 or 4 times between us just this summer. The bites swell into hard patches that itch and last a few days.

That's rather an overstatement, just on this thread at least half or more of the comments are suggesting that the spiders do more good than harm and to leave them alone!

Spiders work hard for us so leave them be -

A study by the University of Basel in Switzerland in 2017 found spiders have an enormous ecological impact as natural enemies of insects.

The report states: "With more than 45,000 species and a population density of up to 1,000 individuals per square metre, spiders are one of the world's most species-rich and widespread groups of predators."

They calculated that "the global spider population (with a weight of around 25 million tons) wipes out an estimated 400-800 million tons of prey every year".

I will bear your post in mind the next time my cat gets fleas or some standing water outside my house breeds mosquitos, or we get an invasion of cluster flies or clothes moths.