Spent an hour tonight screening some of the hummus that I get at the Lower Mac yard waste depot. It does wonders to break down the large chunks of soil and get rid of the unwanted small twigs, rocks, etc. The other benefit to screening seems to be that of aeration – I couldn’t believe how it made the soil so much looser. I made the screen last year and used chicken wire with 1/4″ spacing. Anything smaller and the screen would probably just clog. It’s sandwiched between a 12 x 16″ (apx.) 1×2″ frame that I made and fits nicely over a 16 gallon storage container, used to catch everything that’s screened.

This one isn’t mine, but it looks something like this:

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