Having bolted the new metal raised bed together and placed them where the family gardening goddess requested, it was time to transfer the soil from the existing raised bed to the new ones. We learned over the years a key step is to always screen the soil to remove any undesirable materials, whatever they may be. I built the screen many years ago and it still has many years of life left.

The plastic bag between the two bed is filled with the undesirable material. I don’t try to get every last little bit of soil out of the existing beds since we are going to be placing a new bed in this same general location.