Premium quality garden soil has a loose, crumbly structure. Disruptive components such as thick clods of earth, stones and old roots must give way so that plants can happily stretch out their roots in the garden soil. This guide is packed with practical tips on how to properly sift garden soil.
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Tool requirements and preparatory work
Before you devote yourself to sifting garden soil, please have the appropriate tool ready to hand and carry out important preparatory work. You need a spade, a disused, clean mortar bucket, a large garden waste bag and a soil sieve with a mesh size of 6 to 7 millimeters. How to properly prepare the sieving process:
- Dig the soil to a depth of 20 or 30 cm
- Manually clean excavation from stones, roots, weeds and other coarse dirt
- Alternatively, throw the excavated material through a throw-through sieve
Collect the coarse plant remains in the rubbish bag provided. The remains are usually not suitable for disposal on the compost. If you produce compost soil yourself, you have no interest in re-spreading any weed seeds or pathogens in the garden later in this way. Collect the separated garden soil in the mortar bucket.
Sieve the garden soil correctly - this is how it works
After the preparatory work, you dedicate yourself to the fine work. Gradually fill the pre-filtered soil into the soil strainer with one hand. With the other hand, shake the sieve vigorously. You can either collect the sifted soil in a bucket or let it trickle straight into the bed. Under certain circumstances, thicker clods of earth must also be crushed by hand so that they fit through the narrow mesh.
Improve sifted soil
Sifting garden soil is an excellent opportunity to improve quality. Then optimize wet, clayey soil with fine-grained quartz sand.(15.85€) Too sandy, dry garden soil can be planted with mature compost soil.
tips
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