[Bluedave]

I've just been in the garden to prepare a bed for some carrots and parsnips and it's still full of stones. So I thought i'd sieve the soil to get rid of the stones. It's taking forever though.

I've dug and sieved a hole about 90cm wide by 50cm by just over a spades depth in about half an hour.....is a spades depth enough or should i be going deeper - or less deep which would be good as i've got 7m to dig before the cup final starts (assuming my back holds out!!).

[skywalker]

I spent two days last year sieving soil into a bath to grow carrots. The slugs at them before they made it to an edible size 

[mumofstig]

they are only little stones  (not huge boulders) so personally I wouldn't bother.
Do you have to have perfect veg......in other words is the effort worth it to you?

[Yabba]

I used a bulb planter last year to take out a double depth "core" of soil. I then filled the hole with sieved soil. Far less effort than sieving a whole block



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[Bluedave]

That, my friend, is genius!!!! I'll do that I think!

[penance]

I just sow the seeds and let it grow.

[chris23005]

I just sow the seeds and let it grow.

Me too - after all there is usually a class for "the rudest looking vegetable" in the local show later in the year! 

[bigben]

last year I dug a trench and filled that with seived soil mixed with sand it seemed to work- and I knew anything not growing out of the sandy stuff was a weed. This was important because I have previously managed to weed half my parsnips thinking they woud come up looking like carrot leaves

[Jonajo]

I just sow the seeds and let it grow.

Me too - after all there is usually a class for "the rudest looking vegetable" in the local show later in the year! 

lol. How I love making the old dears blush when they come judging; And the old boys fondly remembering years gone by....sigh!