Sooner or later you will want
to remove stones or debris from your Soil. For one or two
Flower Pots,
you can spread the Soil out on a Newspaper and do it by hand.
But for a Flower Bed or
Vegetable Garden you may want heavier equipment. The following photos
show
some possible choices.
This hand-made
Hardwood Sifter is
available from our Garden
Store
It uses 1-inch mesh screening. The two
Hardware-cloth inserts
(1/2", 1/4") can be laid in the bottom to produce even finer soils.
Granular Fertilizers, Perlite, Vermiculite, Compost and Sawdust
can be added prior to sifting, which will thoroughly blend them into the finished
product.
It's perfect for filling Flower Pots and sifting small Flower
Beds,
and its 1/4" mesh Screen produces a fine Seed-starting Mix.
Our Lifetime Guarantee
makes it a perfect gift
for your Gardening Friends.
For sifting
soil in
Flower Beds or Vegetable Gardens, you may want a larger
system.
An
old Freezer Basket in a Wheelbarrow works great for this.
If you have an old Riding Mower and Water
Tank lying around,
you may want to build this Power Sifter
from GardenGrapevine.com Plans.
It's such a great labor-saver, that you may even want to buy
the Mower
and Tank from a Scrap Yard at scrap prices,
and have a Machine shop build it for
you. 
If you have a
Really serious job, this Commercial Sifter may be the answer. A Truck dumps soil in the Hopper(1), siftings come out Conveyor(2) onto
another Truck, and debris is discarded at (3).
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Soil Sifters
