What do you use to carry your harvest home?

[gorgeousgrower]

I live a few mins walk from my allotment and was thinking today about what I'll need to keep at the lottie to carry home my harvest.

What do you use? How do you keep your soft fruit and toms etc protected on the way home? Do you simply chuck it all in together to sort at home or do you have some kind of special containers for specific veg?

Trug, special bag, box, carrier bags ? Interested to hear what everyone else does.

Thanks

[Alison]

Things like spuds, carrots etc will simply go straight into a smallish trug but soft fruit or smaller things will go in those little plastic trays that you get stuff from the supermarket which I nicked off a friend who was throwing them away.

[binley100]

Most stuff is wrapped in newspaper , then put in a carrier bag. Soft fruit goes in those little plastic containers that you can get for using in microwave or freezer.

[Caro]

At the moment, I carry it home in a pinch using index finger and thumb. Hoping to need more later in the season

[rustylady]

An assortment of things really. I have a green plastic trug, a bendy bucket, carrier bags, and for the soft fruit that doesn't get eaten on the allotment I use plastic tubs (I bought a pack of assorted sizes for £3 at Asda - they're very sturdy and useful for the freezer too)

[frogdoctor]

All mine go into my basket which fits onto my cycle, soft items dependant on size go into old plastic plant pots, which peeps leave around the allotment. Just came with radishes and some early shallots stuffed into my basket..

[Hans Mum]

cloth bags for spuds & stuff, delicate fruits go in the plastic boxes mushrooms come in

[Mrs Dobby]

mushroom plastic boxes, cloth bags and trugs, plus a couple of bendy plastic buckets for heavier stuff!

[Two_Sheds]

I save up bread bags, apple bags etc from the supermarket and use these for my veg. Chinese takeaway boxes for soft fruit (although tbh I eat strawbs on the plot, they don't travel well).
Everything goes on my bike: I can carry 3 carrier bags full on the one, and 6 on this one.

[Nicos]

I used to use plastic carrier bags for the lottie- with more delicate produce on top- and then sort it all out when I got home.

Now we are growing at home, I have a couple of metal mesh trugs and large plastic measuring jugs or mixing bowls for the soft fruit.

[Flummery]

Soft stuff goes in the willow trug - which then goes with everything else into the wheelbarrow - I live a very short walk from the plot!

[weekendwellies]

i got some biggish plastic boxes from the milkman, from a vegetables delivery I used to have, so the more robust stuff, like spuds and courgettes go in one of these. Then I have tonnes of plastic margarine tubs, the big ones 2kg, for the soft stuff, like strawberries. During peak harvest season, I try to take lots of different ones, with their lids, so that things can be sorted into different tubs as picked. Saves sorting them out when I get home.

Start collecting tubs of various sizes from margarine, ice-cream, takeaways, etc.

I looked into getting proper trugs, like you see on tv, but they cost a bomb.
Someone kindly sent me a link how to make them from old tyres, but I am not that handy with things like drills and saws.

Others have these Rhino Aromatub Trug Bucket | EquiShopping.com

If you dont have a lot but its heavy then try this Basket Truck

[HeyWayne]

We once ordered enough Chinese takeaway to feed the street (we had friends round), and the food arrived in a blue plastic 'basket'. Works a treat.

[chris]

I don't have an allotment, but for harvesting & returning from garden I use my wife!

[HeyWayne]

I don't have an allotment, but for harvesting & returning from garden I use my wife!

For now.