Trug

[moto]

Hi,

does anyone know where I could get a reasonably priced but still eco-friendly trug from?

Thanks.

[allotmentlady]

Thomas Smith's Trug Shop i got mine from here :-) hand made!

[Snadger]

Thomas Smith's Trug Shop i got mine from here :-) hand made!

Flippin eck.......and gold plated I would hope!

[Lemon]

Flippin eck.......and gold plated I would hope!

Thomas Smith's Trug Shop i got mine from here :-) hand made!

Would love a lovely wooden trug - these are gorgeous but too pricey for my pocket despite being hand-made.....if only hubby was as clever with his hands...

Where can you get wooden veg crates these days like those shown on GW on Friday?

[allotmentlady]

wooden veg crates ask vegetable shops, wilkinsons, morrisons etc etc etc etc

my trug has got gold leaf in the handle lol..

[moto]

Thanks allotmentlady-

meets the eco friendly criteria, but might need to save up a bit!

[NOG]

wooden veg crates ask vegetable shops, wilkinsons, morrisons etc etc etc etc

And they will laugh and laugh fruit and veg comes in cardboard boxes these days. Some mushrooms come in blue plastic trays.

if you are lucky some spanish oranges come in balsa trays.

If you want proper wooden crates you need to buy them from
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and not cheap.

[zazen999]

I bought a common and garden plastic one yesterday....£10.99 from Shoots Garden Centre in North London Village. It needs to be basic as it will bungeed to the back of my bike.

[NOG]

My plastic trug is great....I use it abuse it and wash it out.

I keep my proper trug for best.

[digthatchick]

Lovely trug AL, you get what you pay for - hand made by a craftsman continuing a craft long forgotten. If we all by cheap plastic ones who will continue this art? ... mine ? I bought at a flea market some years ago it is hand made and dated ... 1887

I do understand we can not all afford to pay this price but remember all the problems this country is in? remember the redundancies etc.? we used to be a country that made things, good things (well except the Morris Marina and the Austin Princess!) and now folks want cheap foreign tat ... now we buy things and not make them.

All my hand tools are made by Skelton, Brades or Parkes nearly 50 years old but all hand made and going strong, used every day and made to last, I need tools I can rely on.

Sorry rant over x

[smallblueplanet]

These traditional handmade wooden trugs seem better value.

Trug Makers

[zazen999]

Lovely trug AL, you get what you pay for - hand made by a craftsman continuing a craft long forgotten. If we all by cheap plastic ones who will continue this art? ... mine ? I bought at a flea market some years ago it is hand made and dated ... 1887

I do understand we can not all afford to pay this price but remember all the problems this country is in? remember the redundancies etc.? we used to be a country that made things, good things (well except the Morris Marina and the Austin Princess!) and now folks want cheap foreign tat ... now we buy things and not make them.

All my hand tools are made by Skelton, Brades or Parkes nearly 50 years old but all hand made and going strong, used every day and made to last, I need tools I can rely on.

Sorry rant over x

I need one for my bike.....how miffed would I be if a gold plated hand made wooded carved trug slipped off on the unadopted ridiculously bumpy not ashphalted in decades road that my lottie is on and smashed to smithereens.

I buy lots of hand made and antique items, and at good prices; please do not assume because I bought 1 plastic trug [and you rant was aimed at me for suggesting it] that i wish destruction upon the handicrafters of this country. I collect antique furniture and old japanese ceramics, just because I can.

Price is not an issue for moi, I am a higher tax payer and a Director of a small but perfectly formed company.

Please desist from ranting and making assumptions based on one post in one thread. I have just spent [since January] over £16,000 on a wall made from hand made bricks, reclaimed coping stones and lime mortar - all to preserve the integrity of the conservation area that I live in [we could have just put a fence up]; a hand made timber framed garden room [we could have got a large shed] and a hand made timber greenhouse [again, could have got aluminium one from B&Q].

[smallblueplanet]

Lend us a tenner zazen?

[zazen999]

Lend us a tenner zazen?

Sure, once I've sorted out this year's tax return and diddled the expense account - my pool needs a clean and as you know - this doesn't come cheap.

[Madasafish]

I am using a wooden trug my father bought in 1948 (yes really). It has outlived him, despite woodworm and the large holes through rot have been replaced with aluminium sheeting and fibreglass resin.

As it's now all covered in dung/earth and compost, it looks normal. It should outlive me.