Stone me!

[Nicos]

I'm not in a wine growing region...but if I recall don't they leave the white reflective stones at the base of vines to reflect the light upwards to the grapes?

When we has this place as a holiday home, we carefully selected various plants to put in pots which would cope without water and yet cope with very cold winters.
We were told to get hold of crushed red volcanic lava to use instead of an organic mulch as it would trap the water and prevent evaporation from the soil beneath.
We did , but it's horrid stuff...you can never tell if the tub needs watering without debriding your fingers first!

[WilliamD]

Luigi's neighbours down the hill weren't enamoured with his plans for clearing the bigger stones from his vegetable patch.

[binley100]

I don't worry about them , I'll rake the bed ans pile a few big ones at the end for the beetles to hide in . Still making my pebble beach around the pond with them as and when .
Parsnips get sown into their own compost filled planting holes and carrots just have to take their chance... Life's too short to riddle the beds and anyway no matter how many you remove you have some rainfall and another load appear...

[Dorothy rouse]

That's what I mean someone comes in the middle of the night and chucks them on your plot!

[Chippy Minton]

Natural part of this rocky outcrop upon which we live. Easy to find, when you jab the fork in the reverberation up the shaft tells you you've snagged another. I dig them out and am determined to have a beautiful gritstone path

Must work out whether the saving on the stones for the path outweighs the cost of sharpening / fixing the tools

[Vince G]

The main track from the lottie gates runs right past my plot. Field sec often says chippings are expensive, so provided the stones I dig out don't have sharp edges, I chuck them on the track. She'll notice the track by my plot is multi-coloured before long and I'll probably get told off. Difficult person to please.....

[chris]

I remove them. I'll take a picture if a few I removed - others I've scattered in various places in my front garden.


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[veggiechicken]

If I removed any "stones" from my cliff garden, there'd be a landslide
Otherwise, I only remove stones that are in my way when trying to plant summat. It would take forever to remove them all

[wellywoo]

We remove the worst of them from our plot and pile them up out the way


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[AllInContainers]

I have a gravelled garden, so ....

[Bren In Pots]

When you've saved lots of stones and pebbles how about something like this

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1209388

[Feral007]

I could do that! Just been talking to the guy who did the slashing in two of my paddocks. Apparently there are a load of coconut sized rocks in the hilly paddock and it would half the time (and fee) if they weren't there.
So I shall be building a bit of a rockery on the hill I'd say....there'll be no sieving tho!

[marcofez]

I'm collecting them(stones) all up so that I can make a path around the polytunnel with them.

[SeleneMourie]

Our allotment is on the grounds of an abandoned 19c quarry.... I can not remember the last time i put a spade in the soil without finding a three inch rock lol

[cptncrackoff]

When (if) spring arrives I'm going to bribe the kids to pick out the biggest stones, there arnt that many but the ones we have are big!

We are still working on the price, I suggested 1p each stone, they are after £1 per stone.. hoping to come to an agreement around the 5p mark...