soil sieve

Hi all,

Does anyone ever sieve there soil when digging the allotment.

Chris

I've seen an article about someone who had a very stony plot. He used a shopping trolley as the sieve - seems it was very effective. My plot is huge so sieving would take forever 

My mates missus has just taken on 5 rods with their daughter. I dug it over with my rotovator and now my mate is building raised beds 6 or 8 so far.
They used a sieve and a plastic mushroom crate and took over a day to fill the first raised bed, they are also probably going to run out of available topsoil quite quickly.
The guy on the plot next to me uses a bread crate as a sieve, I rotovate and rake out anything big that comes to the surface, after that it takes it's chance.
It is different if you are looking to blend compost/ sand etc to make potting mix etc.

I did in the garden to get out weeds, glass and stones. Was after digging and major overhaul of garden. Plants are doing well 

I'm going to be making a rotary one in a few weeks time well before Christmas definantly. I will be using a wheel rim off a childs bike with fine wire mesh. and so on... plan let to be fully worked out but I will have a handle may make a drum...

Often looked at supermarket shopping baskets (the wire ones) and wondered they thry would be good as the handles would make it easier to rock the contents, good for stones or add mesh to make a finer sifter but unless you contact supermarket/supplier or shop closing down I'm not sure how you would aquire this.

Quote from: BestBreast on June 26, 2009, 22:49

Often looked at supermarket shopping baskets (the wire ones) and wondered they thry would be good as the handles would make it easier to rock the contents, good for stones or add mesh to make a finer sifter but unless you contact supermarket/supplier or shop closing down I'm not sure how you would aquire this.

Try looking in the local canal or woods, often plenty there 

Last time i had a look at the river Wey , Farnham , surrey there were three shopping trollies .............................. and a zimmer frame  :blink: