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Large crates for storing tubers etc.

Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
edited November 2019 in Tools and techniques
As above, anyone know any good suppliers of such things?

My tubers are larger than expected so the pots I was going to use are useless. I've got the old council recycling box I can use for a few but will still need more room.

A lot of the largest crates I'm finding on amazon and ebay are only 40 cm long.

Along the lines of this so it will contain the compost but bigger-

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brown-Oval-Cut-Wooden-Crates-Display-Fruits-Storage-Gift-Hamper/162779684796?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20171012094517%26meid%3D786576fc9b5a45359000e10a48070f4b%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D163582111860%26itm%3D162779684796%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

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  • HelixHelix Posts: 631
    edited November 2019
    Go to a market and pick up the light wooden trays used for veg. Lined with newspaper they work fine for me.  No need to buy more things....
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Good advice from Helix. My local organic food shop also gave away old wooden veg boxes for free - they were desperate to get rid of them and I took a car load home for a particular job where I needed to transport loads of plants - remember the Somerset floods in 2014? I helped organise replacement plants for the village that flooded. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    once they're dry, you could store them in banana boxes from supermarkets, they're pretty robust. When they fall apart, you can stick them in the compost bins too.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sturdy cardboard boxes do the job here. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    If the tubers are very large, you need to tease them apart, once they get huge they don’t flower so well. You only need to save the tubers with a neck shoot/stem on them. 
    I use cardboard boxes as well. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    Great info Lyn- do they just pull apart or do they need cutting apart. I presume to keep only ones with roots as well?
  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    They're not huge, just a lot bigger than they were and what you'd ever buy in the spring from a garden centre.

    Think I may have a spare cardboard box that could do the trick, good shout.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    A good use for old laundry baskets when they start falling apart. As long as they aren't too decrepit, although gaffer tape sorts a multitude of sins.
    Re cycling instead of landfill.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • WeaveyDaveyWeaveyDavey Posts: 575
    Along the same lines as @Fairygirl; I use half a dozen old deep milk carton crates (for 30+ years & counting..) - very durable & with a multitude of temporary uses around garden & home. [They're about 28cms deep & about 36-40 cms long (slight taper to base) by about 20 wide]. *The odd corner 'bash' acts as drainage - larger wounds are held together with"large hairy primate tape" -other gaffer type tapes are available but don't last half as long...!!
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