Need a dirt shifter for ground cover?
Being basically lazy…. I took a shortcut to sifting dirt. The dirt that I use has some clay in it so it tends to clump together. After the dirt was dry, I put a cup or so in a cheap blender that I bought at Walmart. The blender sifts it in to a very fine powder. Gary Rush At the Pomona Valley MRC, we use a commercial clothes drier lint screen for selecting ballast from quarry run. If you start with a bucket, use a 1/4″ hardware cloth screen and let the very fine dust winnow (blow away). Then we sift the rest through the finer screen. The willow would be good soil. Test your source for magetic atraction before filling the bucket. Jerry The dirt that I have collected for use on my layout has come from several areas. I collect it in large coffee cans. I don’t bring it into the house until I am ready to use it. The first thing I do is spread it out on an old baking sheet and bake it in the oven for one hour at 450 degrees. Not only does that kill all germs, fungus and eggs; but it also d
