Hessian Sacks
Price range: £6.95 through £19.95
Potato House branded hessian sacks are one of the best ways to store your potatoes once they have been harvested, allowing air to get around the tubers. Once harvested, allow the tubers to dry, leaving them dirty and then sore in the bags. Earlies will store for about a month – they really are best eaten as soon after harvest as possible and the main crop will store for many months in these bags. Keep in a dark cool (but frost free) place to enjoy your harvest. We have customers who buy a bag per variety that they grow and others who put potatoes of similar sizes or cooking methods in one bag for a melody on their plates. One size – will hold about 25kg when full, these are industrial strength and will last years if kept dry. We use these for our larger orders to stack pallets and so they are strong.
Sack dimensions
Width 20″ or 50cms
7oz fabric – industrial strength.
Note if buying in the autumn – if your order just has hessian sacks we can dispatch immediately if you let us know. If you also have seed potatoes in your order, the bags will be dispatched when we dispatch the seed potatoes.
| Quantity | Discount | Discounted price |
| 5 - 9 | £1.00 | £9.95 |
| 10 + | £2.00 | £8.95 |
We will dispatch Seed Potatoes and accessories on a week to suit you in the Spring at no extra charge.
Prices include UK delivery with very few exceptions.
Orders will be dispatched within 4 days then will take 4-5 days to get to you. But this can be longer especially if we have any industrial action.
If you want a specific week, let us know at checkout box. We recommend that you get your potatoes in plenty of time to chit. If you plan to plant in March, we would suggest delivery in late January/February to give 4-6 weeks chitting, if you plan to plant in April, a late February/March date would suit. OVER 98% success rate last year!
Do not ask for delivery too early 4-6 weeks before planting is best.
After delivery it is YOUR responsibility to store the seed potatoes in the correct manner. We have a FREE DELAYED DELIVERY service for our customers and STRONGLY recommend that you if you do not have the correct conditions to store the seed potatoes it would be better to ask for delivery 4-6 weeks before you intend to plant. Seed Potatoes are a natural product and will deteriorate if not stored correctly.
For the vast majority of orders, we do not charge a surcharge for Scottish Highlands and Islands and other remote areas. However, we reserve the right to contact you if we can't get a viable rate. Unfortunately, for large or extremely remote orders, it is likely that we will need to pass on some haulage charge. Please see FAQ for full details
For Isle of Man and the Channel Islands please see FAQ for details.
If you wish to pick up we offer a 15% discount. By default, this option will only appear for local postcodes. If yours doesn’t appear, use our postcode DD3 0QN in the “Deliver to Address”. You need to select local pick up and also put code Pickup in the coupon box. Also to help us, put “pick up” in the “deliver to address”. Note that your order may still take a day or two to organise and we will contact you when your order is ready. We operate on a working farm with machinery, vehicles and livestock and so please keep children and pets inside your car when picking up. This is only available for orders up to £50 – if you wish to pick up a larger order, please contact us prior to ordering.
If we get a parcel returned to us due to wrong details we will charge you postage to re-send. Please check the details on your confirmation note and inform us immediately of any mistakes. Small typos are easy to do!
All products ordered will be sent together in the same delivery. If you require us to split the delivery YOU MUST do two orders. Bulk discounts are only available for the same order. A mixed order for Seed Potatoes and Potatoes to Eat is welcome as long as they are to be dispatched immediately.
During times of frost or low temperatures deliveries will be held back until more favourable conditions prevail and we will inform customers of any delays over social media and on our website. Some deliveries may be delayed if we have to re- stock our nets.
See our FAQ page for more information on payment, discounts and delivery dates and our Terms and Conditions regarding refunds
For orders:
up to 2kg we use Royal Mail
2-10 kg we use Hermes / Evri
10 kg+ Parcel Force
The vast majority of our parcels arrive at their destination on time and intact, which is of no consolation when there are issues. It is as frustrating for us as it is for our customers when delays happen as we work hard to get our orders out in a timely manner.
Changing courier companies is not as easy as it sounds – we are “rurally challenged” – changing courier companies is not very easy when the courier depots are 15 miles away, necessitating a round trip of an hour and a half (meaning staff time away from other jobs – i.e. packing other orders – and the expense of vehicle, fuel and parking). Hermes/Evri offers a pickup service to us. We have to have a courier company that will deliver to Shetland, Cornwall and everywhere in-between. Changing companies would result in an overall slower and more expensive service to the majority of our customers. Different people in different areas of the country will state that X company is the worst.
If there is a known problem with delivery in your area, please contact us BEFORE you place your order and we will see if we can work something out.
If a parcel goes missing we will get another one out to you immediately – we have to wait for 28 days to make our claim.
Penny Millar –
I am so glad you have these now, I remember asking you! They are really strong and will last for ages. I didn’t grow 10 varieties, but I got the 10 pack and I am glad I did as they will do for my other veg. Huge healthy harvest of tatties again this year.
Amy Skea –
We’re always happy to look at customer suggestions.