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Old 15-02-2008, 02:05 PM
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Default Huge supply of compost

Hi, I volunteer at a local farm trust and we have a ton or two of old,very rich compost/soil - my plants love it! I'd like to bag it up and sell it to raise funds for the trust but there are three issues:

1. There are shards of glass, bits of plastic & occasional seeds in it (mainly grass from the meadow it's in). So in order to sell it I need to sieve it easily, but it'll take forever with a hand-held one - any ideas on faster screening?

2. I presume it also needs sterilising because of the seeds (although they're only in the surface soil so I suppose the answer would be to take that off first).

3. The compost is very fine & so compressed and dense, having been sitting around for several decades. I want to lighten it up a bit - could I mix in vermiculite or perlite, or even wood scraps which are lying around the floor of the woodyard?

Anyone around West Kent/Greenwich border want to a) help or b) buy some?! (we also sell chopped wood, and hay £4/bale)

Thank you very much.

Last edited by Mamohau; 15-02-2008 at 02:06 PM.
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