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How Do I Get Rocks Out of My Garden?

Published in Garden Maintenance 2 mins read

To remove rocks from your garden, focus on turning the soil and using the right tools to extract them as you go.

One primary method involves actively clearing rocks while you are working the soil. As you are turning or digging the garden area, keep an eye out for rocks.

Steps to Remove Rocks from Your Garden

Follow these steps, utilizing the information from the reference:

  1. Turn or Dig the Soil: Begin by tilling or digging the garden area. This action exposes buried rocks and loosens the soil around them, making removal easier (though, as the reference notes, there's nothing truly "easy" about this task).
  2. Use a Metal-Tined Garden Rake: As you work through the soil, use a metal-tined garden rake to remove as many of the large, visible rocks as you can. The tines help sift through the soil and catch the rocks.
  3. Collect and Dispose: Gather the removed rocks into a bucket or wheelbarrow for disposal away from the garden bed.
  4. Repeat the Process: Know that you'll never get them all on the first time through. After the initial raking and clearing, you may need to till or dig the garden area again to bring more rocks to the surface. Repeat the raking and collection process until you've removed a satisfactory amount of rocks.

While this method targets the large, visible rocks, it is an effective initial strategy for clearing garden beds for planting. Removing rocks helps improve soil structure and allows plant roots to grow more freely.