[peapod]

Dont know if Im telling people how to suck eggs... 

But rather than buying shop bought (usually small) hessian sacks, go to your local fabric shop and buy hessian direct.  I bought mine for the grand total of £6 and have 3 1m x 2m sacks full of lovely King Eddies. 

[Larkshall]

I made mine out of Taram (weed control fabric) which my neighbour (a road contractor) gave me. It doesn't rot, it's black so the potatoes don't go green.

[peapod]

Thanks Larkshall

Can you wash that stuff?

[Rosy]

Don't know if this helps but our sacks came from the local pet shop as their bird seed is delivered in them and they just throw them out when they are finished with them

[Trillium]

The problem with the plastic/poly type sack is that they don't breathe well and produce inside tends to rot quickly, particularly near the bottom where air flow is non-existent. Apples, which give off lots of ethylene gas, will rot very quickly in non-hessian sacks.
So there's a reason why its seeds and animal feed you find in the poly type sacks.

For spuds and carrots I much prefer hessian, and making your own is the cheapest route, particularly if you catch the fabric in sales.

[Paul Plots]

I bought several from Ebay (are we allowed to say that?)... they've lasted ages and were quite cheap as each had a mis-print on the front.. 

[Trillium]

A word of warning though on hessian sacks - never ever run them through the washing machine  .....unless you want a handful of rubbish. Any that need washing should be soaked in a basin and squeezed out or run only through the spin cycle of the washer, never the washing part. Learned that one the hard way.   

[Arnfields]

We are saving the big paper sacks that our chook feed comes in - to store veg in this year.  Didn't have anything to store last year, chooks ate it!