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Post by stevemc on Oct 5, 2015 2:15:19 GMT
I've Decided to prepare an area of about 12 foot by 12 foot or there about for veg. That end of the garden where no one goes is full of bind weed etc. I'm thinking of digging about 2ft deep and sieving the whole lot to remove roots and stones.
question is what size holes do I need in the Riddle??? Any ideas?
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Post by owdboggy on Oct 5, 2015 8:12:06 GMT
I've Decided to prepare an area of about 12 foot by 12 foot or there about for veg. That end of the garden where no one goes is full of bind weed etc. I'm thinking of digging about 2ft deep and sieving the whole lot to remove roots and stones. question is what size holes do I need in the Riddle??? Any ideas? I riddled about 20 tons of soil a lot of years back. I made a frame from roofing lath timber. It was about 6 feet by 3 feet. I put some cross members in to strengthen it. Then I covered the lot with two layers of one inch chicken wire. This is then propped up at about 60 degrees. You then throw the dry (and it needs to be dry) soil at the frame top half. It trickles down and the fine stuff goes through , the rubbish falls to the base at the front. Mind no matter what you do you will not remove all the weed roots, even if you put the sieved material then through a finer garden riddle. Hard work, it took my daughter and me 6 weeks to do the load we had. And you have to get rid of the rubbish afterwards. |
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Post by Barbara on Oct 5, 2015 9:58:45 GMT
We used a metal shopping basket to do our ''bad'' area, that was full of couch grass and bindweed, we didn't get it all but made it manageable, someone on here Andy I think got hold of a shopping trolley and pushed it backwards and forwards to do the same job. stevemc, |
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Post by stevemc on Oct 6, 2015 2:25:57 GMT
Ok Thanks. Might wait for the dry weather :-)
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 9, 2015 7:20:25 GMT
stevemc, owdboggy, Barbara, Good luck with this task Steve. It maybe worth mentioning that couch grass (twitch) roots normaly only go down between 6-12 inches. I did an area many moons ago by lifting and loosening the area the depth of a garden fork and then working my way through the loosened soil, use a plank of wood to stand on so you don't compact the area you've just done. I kept an eye out for any young shoots from bits I missed and dug them out as they appeared.
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