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)
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?
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!
and convert kilo to pound lol
anyone else?
2.2lbs per kg 8)
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!
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
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
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.
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
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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