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(6 hours ago)Veggie Wrote: Potted up all the tomato seedlings.Well done. You saved money & disappointment. I brought a rotary sieve. Luckily second hand . God awful thing! The holes are really small wet compost doesn’t go through it. I thought that’s ok I’ll just use it on dry stuff. No that wouldn’t go through either. It was really dried out compost from pots in the tunnel. Crumbled to dust in the hand . Still wouldn’t go through the sieve. It’s been sent to the charity shop. Still looking fairly new. Because it’s less than useless.
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++.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.

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