Repurposed Paper Sacks

We start all of our tomato and pepper plants ourselves.  (See my post "Start Your Own Seeds" on March 9, 2011)  During the winter, Tom pours over seed catalogs deciding what varieties to order.  We always end up with more than we planned and, as a result, have several varieties of each to offer.  We plant about half of these in our gardens and sell the others at our farmers' market.

Most people buy 2 or 3 plants at a time.  However, others only buy 1 and others may buy 8 to 10.  It varies.  If you've ever purchased bedding plants, you know the pots are usually dirty.   So, we try to have enough paper sacks on hand to put them in to help keep our customers' clothing and cars clean.  Therefore, one of the things we do all year around is collect paper sacks for this purpose.  We cut them in half and they work great.  Here is a picture of some of the ones we currently have on hand.

As you can see, there is quite a variety and they tell you something about the stores we frequent.  Panera Bread, Daylight Donuts, Cracker Barrel......  I wonder what these stores would think if they knew that the sack they gave us would be used to hold someone's tomato and pepper plants.  I hope they would be proud that it was being repurposed and reused.