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Potted up all the tomato seedlings.
Thought about buying a rotary compost sieve - then devised a moneyless version!
Found a supermarket plastic crate (one of the smaller ones - not the delivery ones). Wedged it into a huge, solid plastic trug (balanced on another pot so that it was a good working height) - no bending. Tipped a bucket of hotbin compost (previously sieved through a wire frame but was too lumpy for seed sowing) into the crate and pushed the compost around with a small rake until the compost fell through the bottom of the crate into the trug.
Result! Two flower buckets of compost that I mixed with coir and some old tomato compost from last year. I'm now ready for some more seed sowing/potting up and I've saved myself £30++.
Thought about buying a rotary compost sieve - then devised a moneyless version!
Found a supermarket plastic crate (one of the smaller ones - not the delivery ones). Wedged it into a huge, solid plastic trug (balanced on another pot so that it was a good working height) - no bending. Tipped a bucket of hotbin compost (previously sieved through a wire frame but was too lumpy for seed sowing) into the crate and pushed the compost around with a small rake until the compost fell through the bottom of the crate into the trug.
Result! Two flower buckets of compost that I mixed with coir and some old tomato compost from last year. I'm now ready for some more seed sowing/potting up and I've saved myself £30++.
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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