Hi all!
I have a lot of small rocks in one half on my garden, mainly from a rock boarder that used to go around my yard. They are small, bout an inch wide size of rocks, but there's a lot of them. Picking them out would be a time consuming nightmare but I'll do it if I have to.
So my question is, do I need to? will they "hurt" my vegetable garden if I leave them there?
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mtgarden gal
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mtgarden gal
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Handsomeryan
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If the soil is dry and has nice loose texture you can build a screen that will allow the soil to fall through but separate the rocks out.
To build a soil screen, simply make a square out of 2x4's and staple hardware cloth to it. Each time you go out to the garden just shovel a few shovelfuls of soil onto the screen and shake it until the soil falls through.
If you have a small garden you can get the entire thing done pretty quickly, if you have a big garden you can just section it off and do a little at a time. Even if it takes you a decade, eventually you'll have gotten all those rocks out.
[img]https://www.hammerzone.com/archives/landscape/tools/sifter/xlgtss31aprl.jpg[/img]
To build a soil screen, simply make a square out of 2x4's and staple hardware cloth to it. Each time you go out to the garden just shovel a few shovelfuls of soil onto the screen and shake it until the soil falls through.
If you have a small garden you can get the entire thing done pretty quickly, if you have a big garden you can just section it off and do a little at a time. Even if it takes you a decade, eventually you'll have gotten all those rocks out.
[img]https://www.hammerzone.com/archives/landscape/tools/sifter/xlgtss31aprl.jpg[/img]
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mtgarden gal
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