CWTurner
Omono
Despite storing up on soil last fall, I can already see that I'll need lots more this spring, as I had to pot up a giant that I collected last weekend.
So it was sifting time again today: Pine Bark. Which is a mindless task and I got to thinking... Is there a preferred method of sifting that saves time/muscle? Large to small, small to large?
What I do is sift out everything larger than 1/4".
Then sift out everything larger than 1/8" from what was left.
Then sift out everything larger than window screen from what's left and toss the remainder in my mulch pile.
That means that I sifted the smallest stuff 3 times, and there tends to be a lot of the small stuff in this mix. But if I sift with a window screen first I'm sifting everything over those tiny holes which takes a long time too.
Short of making my teenage son do it, does anyone have an opinion on the best way to do this?
CW
So it was sifting time again today: Pine Bark. Which is a mindless task and I got to thinking... Is there a preferred method of sifting that saves time/muscle? Large to small, small to large?
What I do is sift out everything larger than 1/4".
Then sift out everything larger than 1/8" from what was left.
Then sift out everything larger than window screen from what's left and toss the remainder in my mulch pile.
That means that I sifted the smallest stuff 3 times, and there tends to be a lot of the small stuff in this mix. But if I sift with a window screen first I'm sifting everything over those tiny holes which takes a long time too.
Short of making my teenage son do it, does anyone have an opinion on the best way to do this?
CW