Sifting The Day Away

A bit of balmy spring weather culled Nathan, Galen and I outside to finish the sifting of the new grow space today. It's certainly a relief to have all that hard labor out of the way. Now we can start to focus on how our vegetables will be situated in the garden. We' still need to turn the soil of last year's grow space and move the compost pile to the other side of the concrete path, but that will be cake comparatively. To sift the remainder of the soil, we used the wire mesh we'll be employing later to build a new composter. The mesh is a 5'x3' piece of 1/4" hardware cloth you can find at your local hardware store. Four zip-ties are used to hold it together. It's placed on the ground, loaded with clumps of grass and rolled around until the majority of the dirt is separated from the grass.

Nathan later managed to escape from his mesh prison.