Build a Cheap, DIY Soil Sifter for $20 or Less!

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Sometimes you need finer soil for starting seeds, growing carrots, or growing microgreens. Instead of going to the garden center and spending a bunch of cash on fancy soil mixes that are "perfect" for starting seeds, why not make your own with a soil screen?
All you need is:
- 2x4" plywood
- 1/4" chicken wire
- 3/4" chicken wire staples
- 20D 4" nails
- Tin snips
You can then easily screen poorly-finished compost, garden soil, cheap potting soil, etc. to be finer and create your own custom mixes.
Try something like this for seed starting:
- 1/3 peat moss
- 1/3 perlite
- 1/3 well-screened, blended compost
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@karieberry1070 3 месяца назад

It cost me 4-2-24 about $35 …. Not too bad! Home Depot had 2x4’s precut… nice! Thank you for this video! I put it together yesterday with my granddaughters- it felt so good to do something so useful . ;-) Bless you all !! ❤

@jonny4563 3 года назад

Nice video. FYI the "chicken wire" is called "hardware cloth" and I sifted rocks some dummy put in the garden. When the squares are 1" in size, it's called "cage wire". I used 1/2 X 3's to make it lighter and used 1/2" grid (1/4" is too small for my application). I used free wood from an old pallet and I put lawnmower wheels on one end and drawer handles on the other to move the rocks after the soil sifted through. I didn't put on the rails because I didn't need it, so mine is less than 1/2 the weight.

@NotoriousPyro 2 года назад

Instead of using nails, use screws so you can change the mesh if needed.

@jimbertucci4766 2 года назад

The longer 2x4's that he used to cover the net and first frame assembly, should have been cut longer (1 1/2 inch + 1 1/2 inch = 3 inches, each board) to overlap and be nailed onto the previously assembled joints. The two shorter 2x4's should also be cut 3 inches shorter to fit in between the longer 2x4's. It will be stronger and last longer.

@slodown3670 4 года назад

Excellent video! Simple, straightforward and informative - with no distracting music or graphics. Many thanks 🙏

@elaineadams3982 Год назад

This is quite possibly THE BEST how to video I've ever watched. No music, no long pauses, succinct and told me everything I need to know. Thank you:))

@daze023 3 месяца назад

I had to mute the horrendous music when I watched it, so that must have been added after your viewing

@dathip 3 месяца назад

@@daze023 You can barely hear it! Get over yourself!

@HoeIngandSowIngGardening 3 года назад

I just planted some carrots yesterday and I was thinking Man i need a sifter bad. This is a very affordable choice. Thanks for the tips. I love your channel so much. 👍😀🌱🌼🌻😀

@TwistedTornsTirade 4 года назад

loved watching those staples just fall in the hole!

@anthonytriolo3643 3 года назад

Put 1 or 2 1/8” rods in the middle divide in section so the screen does not sag after long use.

@fredericdudley6184 Год назад

Good idea, especially if you’re going to use a shaker or vibrator help sift the soil. I use all thread and use a nut and washer on both sides of each bulkhead to secure them.

@user-sw8tw4yk9q 3 года назад

Excellent video and tutorial - this helped me to build a sifter in under 30 min, though prices are a fair bit higher now in the United States.

@mylittlerebornlove8851 2 года назад

Thank you for making this! So quick and to the point!

@kmcsciguy 3 года назад

Building one of these this weekend! Great simple video.

@andreaberryman5354 2 года назад

Well, the technical term is hardware cloth. Lol Chicken wire is thin and flexible 1" hexagonal wire. Thanks for the tutorial!

@JungleScene 3 года назад

I have one 1/4 inch and one 1/8 inch... I sieve through the 1/4 screen onto the 1/8 screen.... this helps me get a consistent 1/4 size for bonsai and succulent mixes, and a fine 1/8 size for anything I need finer soil for. a 1/4 screen is probably enough for most people, but for some applications you dont only want to sieve out the big particles, but also the small particles.

@heyitstemo2478 Месяц назад

I love it! for sure going to build it

@allistergourlay1695 2 месяца назад

Thank for this from Scotland - just built ours today!

@muddyjake 3 года назад

Hey Eric! I started sifting my seed starting mix after seeing one of your episodes with Nature's Always Right. Much better results with my germination. Added benefit: I used the larger materials that didn't make the grade as mulch once the seedlings are transplanted! Thanks for your content.

@rileykorbin5896 3 года назад

dont know if anyone gives a shit but if you guys are bored like me atm you can stream pretty much all the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my gf these days :)

@emerydarwin1077 3 года назад

@Riley Korbin yea, have been using InstaFlixxer for months myself =)

@shayinla1942 Год назад

Thanks for the video! I’m reusing soil and it’s got a lot of roots in. This will be perfect.

@AlvinMcManus 2 года назад

Dude! I was a carpenter for 23 yrs and got a chuckle from the hammer you used. I'm OCD about tools and how they are used, but good job old bean.

@steved0603 2 года назад

Looks great. Thank you for some good ideas and useful info!

@jrivera901011 3 года назад

Thanks. I was looking for something like this so I can sift pine litter.

@CaptainRScott 10 месяцев назад

Nicely done! I made one in wheels that fit on top of my wheelbarrow. But it did cause my breathing to get worse. Be careful ❤

@chrissimon8368 2 года назад

Those are usually called fence staples and that should be 1/2" Hardware Cloth. I am going to use this sifter for big stones that were dug up making a drainage system in my yard. It seems to me that 1/4" would be very hard to shift the red clay dirt here in Tennessee. That humus in his hands is good for your garden.

@jennetgage9284 2 года назад

Don't forget to measure your wheelbarrow or tub that you will be sifting into - then you will know how long to cut your lumber. Thank you again for posting videos like this - I think you only showed me how to make a screen, but solved the mystery of my stumpy carrots and seed sowing failutes - the Soil was not fine enough!

@rowlandrose 3 года назад

Very easy to understand, thank you

@nataliecordero9518 3 года назад

Could I use this to also sift compost? Thank you for the great video!

@marystackpole118 2 года назад

Great info!!! Thank you!!!

@ryandrest2056 3 года назад

Well done, thank you.

@MrHechmo 6 лет назад

Appreciate all the videos. I just made mine the other day with this quick run down. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Awesome to hear. Hope it serves you well!

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Noah Hechimovich Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@hanablelectner2521 3 года назад

simple easy cheap. thank you

@ltlbnsgarden 6 лет назад

Excellent! I am sure going to give this a try ! 😉

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Lemme know how it goes!

@krissylee7363 4 года назад

Thank you!

@shoeknowme 2 года назад

The way I made mine for a box put down two legs each side so you can shake it back and forth get some exercise while doing it. You have a round container if you had a rectangle like a Rubbermaid tote you can have that screen with the legs going down sliding back and forth like you're panning gold LOL. Everything he said is exactly true save your money do a little work go old Style. Thank you for the video you're awesome

@jabennett92 4 года назад

Thanks. Just finished making mine, appreciate the video and advice

@epicgardening 4 года назад

Enjoy it!

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

J AB Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@jamesmorris6204 3 года назад

Amazing thanks

@popeyeyankee5477 3 года назад

Good job. 👍

@argonaut119 2 года назад

What type, size, brand of bucket do you use? Listed anywhere? At the store? Can you make a recommendation on wheelbarrows? garden tools?

@K03sport 2 года назад

Thanks. It doesn't need to be well constructed, but it needs to last a while...? How do those two go together? I put down tiny rocks for a fire pit, now the pit has to go and so do the rocks. Area will be grass again and I don't want the rocks jacking up my mower; hence me looking at how to make a sifter

@Hippiecat67 6 лет назад

The guy at the store told me it was called 1/4 " hardware cloth. Hope this info helps. Enjoyed your video.

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

They're slightly different, but either could be used for this purpose!

@almudenasotovillalba5677 4 года назад

@@epicgardening Thank you. This helped find it on homedepot.com

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@user-sw8tw4yk9q 3 года назад

They also called it hardware cloth where I am in the northeast.

@pineappleapplepens 4 года назад

what do you do with the larger clumps & rocks?

@TigerLilyGzzTLRoars 4 месяца назад

Great vid. Even I can do it 😄

@CoAcRob 6 лет назад

When the updated captions come in, let me know what you think. I'd love to work with you on a regular basis. Being able to help you would brighten my day, week, month. :) My husband and I are city kids who now live in a rural area. I love plants and gardening (our 2 gardens are in the laundry room and a spare bedroom). I'm a freelance transcriptionist/captionist/SEO Specialist. I want more people to learn about gardening from you.

@danwaud3149 2 года назад

Hardware cloth (not chicken wire, which has hexagon holes about 3/4" in diameter--great for sifting out rocks), if you go to buy it. 1/2 " is better if you have soil that doesn't break up so easily. Making two, one 1/2" and one 1/4", will give you the best results for very fine soil when you need it.

@robert420medical2 3 года назад

I'm wanting one so I can reuse my soil

@Lpell159 Год назад

Gotta swing hard with that Fisher price hammer

@JS-cb7rx 4 года назад

What size were your wood cuts?

@CVenza 2 года назад

Is that wire sold as chicken? All I saw was a hexagon one but it was to big an opening.

@dfunited1 3 года назад

I need something like this to sift broken seashells. I'll ask my hardware store for some scrap chicken wire and get to it.

@TheMlamjav 3 года назад

Any sign of the Swift Sifter, Kevin?

@richmilhoan 6 лет назад

Cool

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Thanks!

@jefferycates5179 3 года назад

2x4 is not plywood, it is usually pine, but is solid wood, not plys of wood pressed together. Also, that wire may be used by some people for chicken wire, but it is actually wire hardware cloth. Want the cheapest wood? Use an old pallet, usually free!!

@eileenharder2473 3 года назад

its really difficult to find 1/4" chicken wire, at least at our Home depot in Canada, or anywhere. But thanks for the video

@thrivewithessentials 3 года назад

I'm finding that a 1/4" hole sifts my shredded paper through. I suppose that's ok as long as I'm not 'selling it, but I'd rather not have the shredded paper blowing around in my yard.. Suggestions?

@allupinya5938 3 года назад

Don't sift paper.

@markmilliken9711 Год назад

Thank you….

@sportster2827 2 года назад

Pull it taught?

@Industryresolution 6 лет назад

Good video man

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Thanks dude

@rae1632 2 года назад

Maybe it's under $20 if you already have the tools like a wire cutter or maybe it's prices went up. Went to Home Depot to buy the materials and almost spent $50. That's including the cheapest materials I could find.

@monteroisaac 4 месяца назад

Agreed! I did pick up the wire cutter at Habor Freight for a lot cheaper. Total for me was $32. Hope it went well for you too!

@crisantechris 3 месяца назад

Lumber has increased by probably 300% since this video. That 2x4 is now $6-7 instead of $2

@jeanniemiller4040 Год назад

I can't believe the people who will quickly point out the faults. Come on people he is a gardener not a carpenter. Cut him some slack.

@Bmindful1161 5 лет назад

Is used also, to separate landscape rock and soil/sturdy enough?

@epicgardening 5 лет назад

Prob not, would need heavier duty mesh

@Bmindful1161 5 лет назад

@@epicgardening is it basically the same concept/design with heavier duty mesh?

@garrycole9187 5 лет назад

@@Bmindful1161 , depending on size of rock? 1/4-1/2 inch would be okay, but 3/4 and above would be too heavy. You would need to reinforce it first with heavier nails or screws. I first got rid of the bigger rocks with a dirt rake, not a leaf rake. Then I screened for further small rocks, but my soil is clay and heavy as heck so I only could do a little at a time.

@Bmindful1161 5 лет назад

@@garrycole9187 thank you

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Bmindful1161 Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@sazookeyhiyaboosta 2 года назад

Looks good! You have very cheap hammer.

@hula186 5 лет назад

Your video was really helpful. I did have a hard time figuring out which 2x4 to use. They had 3 different ones. I got kinda overwhelmed and left the store. I did tho take pictures of prices with the names.

@epicgardening 5 лет назад

Anything will do for a 2x4, cheapest is fine

@jluich 5 лет назад

@@epicgardening used old barn wood

@missconi1982 4 года назад

Epic Gardening will this work? www.homedepot.com/p/2-in-x-4-in-x-10-ft-Standard-and-Better-Kiln-Dried-Heat-Treated-Spruce-Pine-Fir-Lumber-161659/100080482

@lavonnestucky5196 5 лет назад

That's not technically chicken wire, it's hardware cloth.

@cici8427 4 года назад

What is the exact measurements for the plywood

@muddyjake 3 года назад

Apologies KEVIN! Finished a conversation with a family member ERIC before entering my comment.

@louise4326 2 года назад

This is hardware cloth not chicken wire. Chick wire has large round holes.

@iron60bitch62 4 года назад

When you start screaming out garden soil that you buy at the store you will be shocked at how poor that soil is

@ETExpressLlcMuscleShoalsAlabam 2 года назад

I’ve found pallet material in mine

@AdventInnovative 3 года назад

probably cost more like 40 bucks but thanks for the tutorial.

@jasonbean7296 6 лет назад

Gee, I don't know. When I was a teenage gardener, I built a soil screen for zero dollars. Just used materials we had laying around on the farm. Good thing I could, too. My dad would have flipped his wig if I had spent a dime on playing in the dirt. He didn't think much of my gardening hobby. Didn't mind eating the veggies, though.:)

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Hey, if you can do it at home, go for it!

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Jason Bean Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@tzevun1223 3 года назад

Sounds like Ryan Reynolds

@ranjah007 3 года назад

Have you seen the price of a 2x4. Lol. 20dollars for a single piece of 2x4 in Canda.

@MikesHobbyPlanet 2 года назад

40 bucks in USA for this

@LordPadriac Год назад

Holy shit could you have found a smaller hammer to pound in 4" nails?

@amallica 4 года назад

Great video thank you. By the way, get yourself a man’s hammer LOL

@epicgardening 4 года назад

LOL working w/ what I've got

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Kevin Corcoran Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@glxxyz 4 года назад

@@epicgardening Was that an IKEA hammer?

@rebekahallen6188 Месяц назад

I think he’s using hardware cloth

@oopsscottforgot 3 года назад

Its 40 dollars now with these lumber prices lol

@malrec 5 лет назад

You don't need 2X4, you can get away with 2X2. This brings the cost down WAY down. You can even upgrade to screws and still come in for less than 12 bucks. HD rapes people for 2X4.

@TheMlamjav 4 года назад

Mike Smith Check out this a new, simple, efficient, and effort saving soil dirt sifting tool called, SWIFT SIFTER. If you like my product please like and leave a comment on my video. Thank you. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd8N4_mG8Tk.html

@elijahwu4168 6 лет назад

Your hammer looks so tiny for some reason

@epicgardening 6 лет назад

Let's just say it wasn't the best suited hammer for the job 😂

@JD-ce4so 4 года назад

Maybe it’s because your hands are so big the hammer looks small🤥

@Metallican91 3 года назад

Price of lumber now this is a $100 sifter RIP

@jesusisGod1434 Год назад

How did you get 2 million subscribers when you don’t even know what hardware cloth is?

@fredericdudley6184 Год назад

Before you post a video please learn the difference between chicken wire and hardware cloth. There is no chicken that needs to be contained by a 1/4” mesh. They are only that small as an embryo and not a flight risk. I’ve use 1/4” mesh hardware cloth. It’s too small for most soils although it makes a nice media if you have the time. Suggest using 3/8” beekeepers #3 mesh or two layers of 1/2” hardware cloth, one slight out of phase with the other to make ~3/8” mesh. One half inch will make very good soil as well and it’s much faster to use.