Window screen for Turface.

I also use a 1/4 inch plastic grid (a nursery flat for transporting plants) for the bark.

My latest tools are large pond-baskets that have 1/8 and 1/16 perforations around the outside
and bottom. I shake and rinse ingredients like bark and Perlite to remove dust and fines.

Josh

Thanks, Josh, great idea using pond baskets!

I have a basic screen frame with permanently attached 1/2 inch hardware cloth. Other screens from window screens up, slip inside the frame on top of the 1/2 inch. Al

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I have 2 'sets' of screens in sizes 1/2, 3/8, 1/4, 1/8, and aluminum insect screen.

Al

I like Josh's pond basket idea, too, and when I get to the larger garden center this spring, I plan on buying a few.

In the meantime, I use whatever is handy and workable to sieve the ingredients. For example, I use a piece of hardware cloth with holes about the size of Al's screen with the larger looking holes to sift bark for my outdoor 511 mix, and I have some other oddities from kitchen and crafting that have decent holes for getting rid of dust and tiny particles, or whatever else I need.

I would love to get my hands on a set of those really nice bonsai screens, but they're expensive. But I think the pond baskets will work great!