Compost Sieve

The Compost sieve is used to filter out unwanted items from your compost, leaving pure, rich, sifted compost. Many people who make compost at home will find unwanted elements in it such as stones, pebbles, twigs, leaves, and solid organic materials. Stones and pebbles probably litter your garden already and organic materials that haven't broken down in your home composting bin are not at all harmful to your garden. However, there are good reasons for eliminating these items from your garden compost:

• Removing large items from your compost helps small seedlings that may be unable to grow if they are suffocated or damaged by stones or solid organic waste that has not broken down fully in your compost bin.
  
• Many home composters invest a lot of time in producing healthy, rich fertilizer for their gardens and want their home compost to look like fertilizer you buy from the garden centre, but without the chemicals. To achieve this look you will need to sieve your home compost.

Compost filtering methods

It is possible to filter large or unwanted elements from your compost by hand, but it is far easier and faster to use a compost sieve. Simply pour your compost on to the tray, and shake the compost allowing fine grains of fertilizer to pass through the tray and the harder objects to remain in the sieve.

Fine grain compost is perfect for all your gardening needs and the best fertilizer for young seedlings.

Compost sieve specifications

• Made from plastic
• Mesh base made from galvanized steel
• Sieve width 32cm
• Sieve length 37cm
• Sieve depth 13cm