John Suavecito wrote: I'm now trying to figure out what to do with the old bags that have holes in them.
I use them for all sorts of things...
1. nest box liners form my chickens and ducks
2. quick mulch to slow down weeds
3. cut and rolled into a cylinder to make a biodegradable plant pot that lasts longer than a paper pot.
4. I just tied a bunch to some hardware cloth on a duck run to give some winter wind protection.
5. Add to my compost when I need more "browns". (I tend to have more greens and chicken shit, so I'm always looking to balance that.) This is an "end" use when they're done with higher level uses.
6. This is up-coming. I cut holes in a regular pattern, place the sack on my garden bed, and put a garlic clove in each hole. I have issues with some bird tending to pull up the cloves when they see a green shoot come up. The sack seems to help the cloves get their roots down quickly so birds can't mess with them. It also slows the weeds down while the garlic gets going. It also helps me get the cloves fairly evenly spaced.
That's all I can think of at the moment. We have an organic coffee distributer not too far away, so we get sacks by the hundred every so often. The ones we get have been sewn shut with a thread that isn't biodegradable, so I always try to remove that before using the sack for plants/compost.
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