Home made garden sieve

[Fred]

When we moved we lost our garden sieve. After looking around I thought €15 was a bit much for a new one and I never did like shaking it about to get some nice potting compost anyway. I thought there has to be another way of turning our own compost into a good quality potting compost with less effort.

Looking in the old shed I remembered we had a knackered bottled gas heater tucked up the back somewhere. The front of the heater looked like it could make a good sieve to me, and here it is.



Next I remembered I had a couple of old plastic box's, I put one in the wheelbarrow to bring it up to a comfortable working height and to make it easy moving it around once full.



Ok let's shove a couple of spadefuls of our own compost in, throw on an old pair of gloves and just move it around till you're left with the rough stuff which you throw back in your compost bin.





And there you have it nice fine potting compost made with your own fair hands and it didn't cost you anything.





Here is the whole set up, and we can now start filling the compost bin up again ready for the next lot. *Remember to add a bit of your old compost to your new batch to help it get going.