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Re: Re[2]: Green Manure

I do this over my deep wheelbarrow in a place where I can just dump the
debris off to one side and not care. Next to the compost pile seems to be
the usual spot. The compost and manure and peat all go through the screen
and the avocado shells and rocks and branches don't. I scrape it through
with my shovel back and forth and shake it a bit and tip it off the side of
the wheelbarrow. This works well with a minimum of effort and leaves me
with a full wheelbarrow of screened soil.

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> From: tom_williams@mail.agr.state.nc.us
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re[2]: Green Manure 
> Date: November 7, 1997 9:11 AM
> 
> 
>      
> Susan,
> Earlier in my gardening career, I built a frame with a screen over it 
> for sifting rocks.  I really hate rocks and was enthusiastic about 
> removing them.
> 
> Lessons I've learned:
> 1.  I grow rocks better than anything.  I never run out of them
> 2.  Plants don't mind rocks as much as I (we?) do.
> 3.  After sifting rocks out of the garden, I then have to find 
> something to do with them.
> 
> Think about how you'll do the sifting.  Set the screen on the ground; 
> put in a shovel full of dirt; PICK UP the screen and shake.  Repeat 
> many, many times.  My back and arms got pretty tired of this.  If you 
> decide to go through with this, you might want to consider building 
> some type of stand that would hold the screen up for you.
> 
> Tom in Raleigh, NC
> 
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re: Green Manure 
> Author:  <veggie-list@eskimo.com > at NCDAMAIL
> Date:    11/7/97 7:15 AM
> 
> 
> I have been trying to get my garden cleaned up.  It is football season,
so 
> most of my Saturdays have been spent at the stadium.  GO Penn State!  I
also 
> do  crafts shows so I have had a few of them lately.  Last weekend was a 
> complete wash out, literally, we had over 3 inches of rain.  I did manage
to 
> get out in the graden between showers and pull the majority of the dead 
> plants.  
>      
> I would like to try chopping up the leaves from the yard and covering the

> garden with a layer of them followed by a layer of compost.  I am in
central 
> PA so hopefully I can get this done before the snow falls.  The weather
is 
> raining right now and tomorrow is the big game between PSU and Michigan
so 
> you know where I'll be.  
>      
> One of my plans for the spring is to fabricate some sort of screen to
sift 
> out the rocks from the soil.  I thought I could get some of the 1 inch
wire 
> fencing and put it over a square frame.  I would like to work on getting
my 
> soil in better shape.  THis is only the third year I have had the garden 
> dug.  It used to be a grassy area of the yard.  Just when I thought I had

> done a good job removing rocks, they had to dig up our water line which
went 
> through the upper edge of the garden.  That area of the garden needs lots
of 
> work now.  Anyone else use a frame for sifting top soil?
>      
>      
>      
>      
> Susan W. Smith
> State College, PA 16801
> sws2@psu.edu
>      
>
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