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[Beer can]

Dollar store batteries you have to buy the more expensive one's. I always check their weight, heavy one's last as long as any expensive batteries. The light one's only good for a TV remote or wall clock.
I don't buy seed potatoes anymore.
Just buy a few big bags of what one's I want and store them for a few months, much cheaper.
Last yr I cut them down small, as long as they had a eye, right down to about one inch square chunks. They grew great.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I saw 'potato bags' in one of the seed catalogs, maybe Burpees that had little velcro edged access flaps built into them so you could harvest new potatoes from them without disturbing the rest of the plant or subsequent produce from that plant.

I used sand bags one year they work pretty good for that

 

[getaclue]

While my coop set up would not work nearly as well up north, it's perfect for here in the south. Heat is the major factor here, not cold winters.

Sorry to hear about all of you being inundated with water, and mud. That's why I started with a couple loads of clean sand, then put fill dirt on top of that in my coop, and runs. I know that area was low, and didn't want it to be flooded, or muddy most of the year. I know it was hard to get sand, and very expensive where my parents lived in KY. Their soil in that area is more like a clay, and gets mushy during the rainy season.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: see I buy bolts of burlap it is very porous so water goes in but also dries easily we had these really thick
boards left in the garage attack that where engineer drawing left from another owner another time
we set them on those to protect from pests also

 

[lilwildrabbit]

So are sandbags they are porus enough to let water pass through

 

[pennyJo1960]

So are sandbags they are porus enough to let water pass through

maybe if they are truly burlap they are

 

[lilwildrabbit]

They are like the barriers at construction sites it holds back the soil but let's water pass through

 

[Cynthia12]

Beautiful!

 

[Cynthia12]

Fantastic. Showing my DH!

 

[getaclue]

Feed used to come in burlap bags, and it had many uses back in the day. Yes, it would be well suited as a potato bag.