Selling Excess spuds

[Philbasford]

As ive grown far to many spuds and harvested some of my mains now due to blight ,i have 3 sacks of mains (with another 2 or so sacks worth in the ground!)

So am now thinking of selling the excess either on my street or through work

Can anyone suggest how much i should ask for them (say per poung)?(i have cara/king edward/desree (and another one i cant remember)

[Philbasford]

[katynewbie]

Pop in to the local tesmorisburys and see how much they are charging per kilo/pound and then adjust to what you think is fair or reasonable?

[Biscombe]

Mine are organic red pontiacs, I'm selling at 2€ a kilo which is cheaper than the organic shop in town, people are happy with the price, all you need now is a Euro to Sterling converter!

[Philbasford]

and convert kilo to pound lol

anyone else?

[kt.]

2.2lbs per kg 8)

[Old bird]

Hi Philasford

I sell loads outside my house!

I sell tomatoes per bag (normally 50p) and cucumbers/courgettes/artichokes etc per unit ie "each"

So if you had a biggish "bag" of potatoes you would put a price on that rather than going down the weighing route!

I haven't a clue how much potatoes cost nowadays - I haven't bought any for ages!

Good luck with it anyway!

Old Bird!

[Philbasford]

thanks old bird
am going to do a sign, but living on edge of city may well get some stupid council official knocking on me door!

only reason why i wanted to know about a price per lb was me OH would sell them at work so would be a couple of lb;s here and there

[Old bird]

Yes - agreed but then do different sized bags!

Like a 50p one and £1 one and so on! 

I am not sure that they can stop you doing this (the Council I mean) Hopefully you will get away with it anyway!

I think if you go down the weighing and selling by weight route - you may well get some nosy "official" checking the weights and measures type of thingy!

Old Bird

[Squashman]

I sell mine by the pound in punnets, the strong blue ones you get in supermarkets, at the moment I am getting .50p per pound, most people bring their own carrier bags otherwise I use bags saved from the supermarket, that way I retain the punnets. I have a sign saying "Local Produce grown the Natural Way". Having formed several different allotment associations and assisted local coucils in sorting out their sites, I was able to get the local council to agree that any association member could sell their surpluss produce. It pays for the seed, manure, rent and other costs.

[kitty]

i'm selling organic salad leaves at 50p for a goodly sized bag....will sell more stuff as it becomes available-covers my seed costs and the feedback gives me heart!
kitt
xx

[Philbasford]

thanks guys thats great!
had put a sign saying fresh spuds, may change it to fresh veg, people might be a bit more interested then