paper sacks for potatoes

[clara]

Wanted:  any suggestions about where to get paper sacks for storing my potatoes.

[clara]

[Linda Tal]

Go to your local chippy - I managed to get some from mine, he was more than happy to let me have some, as he was only going to throw them away!

Linda.

[Roy Bham UK]

I had no luck at my local 'chippy' :'(  but got a few from my local green grocers. ;D

[Ragged Robin]

 My local council supply brown paper sacks for recycling garden waste, available from local library; or I used to "snaffle" the paper bags provided by a well-known D.I.Y store to pack stuff in!
  .... depends on your social conscious ! ;)

[cambourne7]

Hi

I find that collecting all the paint samples is a very good way to get the paper bags.

I also got the very large double lined ones from my local recycling place as they give then to you to take away free compost.

So i get one full of compost and empty it on the plot to fill with spuds :-)

L

[Mrs Ava]

Farm shop for mine.

[keef]

Someone posted about storing them in paper ream boxes a few weeks ago. Sounded like a good idea to me, easy to stack up, and a use-able amount in each box.

[tim]

As Emma.

[Svea]

i reuse sturdy paper shopping bags, myself. large size, sturdy, my bread shop provides these with their ginormous rounds of yummy bread! :)

[Leonnie]

find someone who keeps chickens, the paper feed bags from the chicken feed is ideal for storing potatoes and they're a nice large size too.

[powerspade]

I get mine from my local corner shop

[greyhound]

find someone who keeps chickens, the paper feed bags from the chicken feed is ideal for storing potatoes and they're a nice large size too.

Same with dog biscuits.

[Meg]

Market for me also onion bags too.They only throw them away. Also got egg trays to put the seed potatoes on.

[cambourne7]

i use apple trays from well known supermarket ( name begins with w ) for my seed potatoes  ;D

[clara]

  thankyou for all the ideas, particularly like the paper reem box idea  :) :) :)

[telboy]

This came up last year.
Tesco.
They are only too happy to give you them!!

[KMARKSnr]

Hi all,
        I use cardboard boxes from the local shops,and find the spuds keep very well in these.

                   Regards,
                           Mark.

[flossie]

me too Mark

[philcooper]

All the large supermarkets get their potatoes in the prepacked polybags inside a large paper sack

Phil

[Little Bean]

Our Allotment Association shop sells paper sacks for potatoes

The suppliers are
R G Warwick & partners Ltd
Wickham
Hampshire
PO17 5JP

Check out our website

www.eastleigh-allotments-association.org.uk