I buy it from B&Q if I need it. It was about a fiver for a 20kg bag last time I got it. It goes into a plastic container with drainage holes. I have some very fine mesh which goes in the bottom, and it's just left there. The rain cleans it. If I need it before that happens, I just wash some 'manually' in a bucket, draining off the dirty water a couple of times.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've spent the afternoon 'designing' sieves in my head! 🤣 A riddle with green mesh seems like a starter. Then a visit to my local hardware shop. The little old men in there are going to think I have a notion of them! I'll take a sample of my purchase and see what they come up with. Exactly why are you buying all this wood four bits at a time Mrs PP? 😳 Oh it's gravel you're after now is it?!?!?!?
I made a makeshift sieve @plant pauper. 4 pieces of tubular metal [from one of those useless plastic greenhouses] joined by using the little plastic connectors from the same gr'house. Made a rectangle, and added a double layer of some netting I already had. I just wired that onto the frame. I've used it a lot, mainly for sieving soil or old compost, and it worked well. I now use it to cover a container for collecting water, so that nothing can fall in and drown, because I treated myself to a manufactured, circular one, earlier this year. I know how to live...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I made sure that a soil sieve was on the wedding present list. We still use the same one after many years. There again, my parents still use theirs, and I remember it as a child. They are worth having.
Having used both the builders stuff and the proper horticultural variety I can state with absolute confidence that I still lose over 50% of my cuttings.🤭
When I consider other contributory factors such as laziness, forgetfulness and standing on them by accident (clumsiness) I sometimes think I’d be as well throwing them straight on the compost heap and cut out the middle man.🤨
When I consider other contributory factors such as laziness, forgetfulness and standing on them by accident (clumsiness)
I can honestly say - I've never had that problem..... Aye right Sometimes, they just do it to spite us @DaveGreig. I have all sorts of cuttings in various spots, usually against walls or tucked in somewhere, but it doesn't mean I don't manage to stand on them or knock them over!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Depends what you are going to use it for. The smaller bags are a fiver from GC are great for the tops of flower pots and easy to carry. If you are going to buy tons of the stuff remember it will just be dumped at the front door or the street then the rest is up to you. Just like what my log delivery man did for our wood burner in our last house.
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It goes into a plastic container with drainage holes. I have some very fine mesh which goes in the bottom, and it's just left there. The rain cleans it.
If I need it before that happens, I just wash some 'manually' in a bucket, draining off the dirty water a couple of times.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Exactly why are you buying all this wood four bits at a time Mrs PP? 😳 Oh it's gravel you're after now is it?!?!?!?
I've used it a lot, mainly for sieving soil or old compost, and it worked well. I now use it to cover a container for collecting water, so that nothing can fall in and drown, because
I treated myself to a manufactured, circular one, earlier this year.
I know how to live...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.kaizenbonsai.com/soil-sieve-set-for-bonsai-interchangeable-screens-12-inch-30cm
There again, my parents still use theirs, and I remember it as a child.
They are worth having.
When I consider other contributory factors such as laziness, forgetfulness and standing on them by accident (clumsiness) I sometimes think I’d be as well throwing them straight on the compost heap and cut out the middle man.🤨
Aye right
Sometimes, they just do it to spite us @DaveGreig. I have all sorts of cuttings in various spots, usually against walls or tucked in somewhere, but it doesn't mean I don't manage to stand on them or knock them over!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...