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Tool needs and preparation work

Before you devote yourself to sifting garden soil, please have the appropriate tools to hand and carry out important preparatory work. You need one spade, a disused, clean mortar bucket, a large garden rubbish bag and an earth sieve with a mesh size of 6 to 7 millimeters. How to properly prepare the sieving process:

• Dig the earth to a depth of 20 or 30 cm
• Manually cleaning excavation of stones, roots, weeds and other coarse debris
• Alternatively, the excavation through a Pass-through sieve throw

Collect the coarse plant remains in the garbage bag provided. The remains are usually not suitable for disposal on the compost. In case you Make compost yourself, you are not interested in re-applying any weed seeds or pathogenic agents in the garden later in this way. You collect the separated garden soil in the mortar bucket.

Sift garden soil properly - this is how it works

After the preparatory work, you can dedicate yourself to the fine-tuning. Gradually fill the pre-filtered soil into the soil sieve with one hand. Shake the sieve vigorously with the other hand. You can either collect the sieved earth in a bucket or let it trickle down into the bed. In some cases, thicker clods of earth have to be crushed by hand so that they can fit through the narrow mesh.

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