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Title: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: Squash64 on November 12, 2009, 08:51:29

One of our plotholders owns a fish and chip shop and will give us as many paper potato sacks as we want.  They are made of thick brown paper, about 3 layers thick.

Apart from the obvious - using them to store our potatoes - what else could they be used for?  Would they be ok for lining paths or would they disintegrate too quickly?  Any other uses?

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: tomatoada on November 12, 2009, 08:53:29

Sell them at your open days.  I hope to be there and would buy some.

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: Squash64 on November 12, 2009, 09:00:29

Quote from: tomatoada on November 12, 2009, 08:53:29

Sell them at your open days.  I hope to be there and would buy some.

What a good idea, I never thought of that!
(see you next year) :)

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: tomatoada on November 12, 2009, 09:11:27

Please be sure to save me some.

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: shirlton on November 12, 2009, 09:14:53

Good idea about the open day Betty. I would have some but have already bought the hessian ones last year.

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: saddad on November 12, 2009, 09:53:31

If you really get too many you can shred and compost them... but selling at the open day is a good idea..  :)

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: cornykev on November 13, 2009, 19:17:37

Line them in bean and squash trenches.  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: InfraDig on November 13, 2009, 20:04:25

My worms like brown corrugated cardboard, perhaps they might get to like shredded brown paper!

Title: Re: What can we do with an endless supply of potato sacks?
Post by: Slug_killer on November 13, 2009, 21:54:58

Wrap Christmas presents ?

You could stand by the cash desks at Toys'R'Us or the local GC, doing a wrap-and-go service.

Sack races ?