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General => News => Topic started by: noorie on February 20, 2011, 10:54:19
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The best way to achieve compost like soil try this new device. Highly recomended by gardening experts. For further information go to http://www.castlefieldproducts.com/en/gardening-equipment/Soil-Seive/WatfordUniversalSoilSieve/
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I don't think any amount of rocking back and forward would get my clay through that sieve!
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Are u selling it. ??? ??? ???
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It's far too expensive for what it is when an ordinary sieve would do the same job!! :o
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Wouldn't have time to do all that......just about manage to have time to do all the digging :D
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You might as well use a shopping trolley and shake it about a bit, would be a lot cheaper....and illegal to nick one of course she adds hastily... ;) No use on my heavy clay either I'm afraid!
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I am not selling it I do have one and it works very well without much effort. The hopper takes 7-8 spades at the time and it's done in less tha 1 minute. ;)
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Who wants to sieve a 10 perch allotment? Also, you are removing larger lumps of soil too.
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A few years ago a couple on our site did riddle by hand the entire plot.
Our site used to be a brick works and has pit shafts and the small site has amazing variation in the quality of the plots. They are on thin virtually shale "soil" -absolute rubbish
We didn't know them at the time and everyone thought they were a a bit unhinged. :-[
However they did it- so it can be done! Mountains of small stones went in the skip and they now have a good plot. They then put in small raised beds to add the depth back.
Perseverance!! ;D
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When I first got my plot I stuck the spade in and it went boyong. Did try to start picking out the stones but the rock pile I call my plot had too many in. Decided to leave them and wait for erosion to occur.
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If I used one of those things on my soil I wouldn't ahve any soil left.... it wouldn't touch the clay and the rest of it is pebbles..... I'm just heaving on manure and letting the worms help me out.... plus it's awfully expensive....
chrisc
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Part of my plot was so thick with bits of broken brick - fortunately just a surface layer embedded in the couch - that I needed a pickaxe to break it up. Another plot's been used for large-scale dumping in the past, but we're turning it into an orchard. A riddle can be useful, but we've got a middle eastern plotholder who told me he likes stones as they stop the soil drying out so fast.
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The stones help with drainage in the wet weather and my geologist daughter told me the hold water as well. In my last house my neighbour sieved out all the stones from her garden but it just turned into a mud patch in winter.
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I'm with Chris if I seived my lottie I would end up with a huge hole, parts of it were pure gravel. Plants don't seem to mind.
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waste of time / effort.
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AS said :
Waste of time and effort
Stones = drainage and also help to warm the soil
Take out the biggies by all means
The soil will turn to mush and mud.
KT will probably come on soon and mention the £3 sieve, I agree with him 100%
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It's far too expensive for what it is when an ordinary sieve would do the same job!! :o
A plastic sieve the size of a washing bowl for £3 is cheap at half the price ;)
My grandad and dad did ok last century without one and I have managed fine this past seven years also. Will stick with what I know works best - my spade, gripe and rake.
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MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR COMMENTS. I DONT WANT TO SOUND LIKE A SALES MAN, BUT TO SIMPLY EXPRESS HOW MY LIFE WAS MADE EASY WIYH THIS SIEVE. THERE WERE ABOUT 20 WHEEL BARROWS OF GLASS THAT CAME OUT OF MY SOIL, PLUS OTHER RUBBISH. IN THE PROCESS LOTS OF BIG STONES WERE REMOVED. AT THE SAME SIX WEEKS LATER THERE WERE HARDLY ANY WEEDS. I MANAGED TO ACHIEVE ALL THIS IN ONE ACTION. I AM DISABLED AND THIS SAVED ME FROM LOTS OF EFFORT AND ENERGY.
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MANY T.......SABLED AND THIS SAVED ME FROM LOTS OF EFFORT AND ENERGY.
please stop shouting, it's very hard to read....