Wanted: any suggestions about where to get paper sacks for storing my potatoes.
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.
I had no luck at my local 'chippy' :'( but got a few from my local green grocers. ;D
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 ! ;)
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
Farm shop for mine.
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.
As Emma.
i reuse sturdy paper shopping bags, myself. large size, sturdy, my bread shop provides these with their ginormous rounds of yummy bread! :)
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.
I get mine from my local corner shop
Quote from: Leonnie on September 28, 2006, 09:30:58
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.
Market for me also onion bags too.They only throw them away. Also got egg trays to put the seed potatoes on.
i use apple trays from well known supermarket ( name begins with w ) for my seed potatoes ;D
thankyou for all the ideas, particularly like the paper reem box idea :) :) :)
This came up last year.
Tesco.
They are only too happy to give you them!!
Hi all,
I use cardboard boxes from the local shops,and find the spuds keep very well in these.
Regards,
Mark.
me too Mark
All the large supermarkets get their potatoes in the prepacked polybags inside a large paper sack
Phil
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
Greetings all
I was in Plymoth last week and while shopping in the Co-Op noticed that they sell paper liners in kitchen caddys and wheelie bins. The bin size liners are HUGE but a good price.
This could be a solution for peeps in the SW
My local Tesco told me they don't get paper sacks! Back to the chippy for me.