Sending seedlings through the post

[dexterdoglancashire]

Could you not use egg carton modules to protect the roots? Just an idea - not necessarily a good one! Good luck chuck! DDL

[Two_Sheds]

I use recycled Coke/milk/water bottles. Cut the top off, pop plants inside, seal up with tape, send in a Jiffy bag. Postage rates are a bugger now, aren't they? Even a light packet costs over a quid. I wonder why Royal Mail are haemorrageing (?) money?

[pigletwillie]

Some very interesting ideas there peepsters, thank you very much.

[mandyballantyne]

Yogurt cartons or even things like plastic packaging that covers ink cartridges etc?

Mandy

[Snadger]

Wash soil off roots and pack roots in damp toilet paper. Put small poly bag around the tissue paper covered roots and selotape round neck. Get a small plastic pop bottle, cut off neck, put inverted neck over seedlings and slip rest of bottle over plant, selotape together with other cut off bottle over roots.

Sounds complicated, but isn't and doesn't cost anything apart from the jiffy bag or better still, scrounge some bubblewrap. Very little weight as no soil. Always send 1st class as you want them through the system as quick as possible!

[Two_Sheds]

... scrounge some bubblewrap

In the name of Recycling - while you're down at Aldi getting your cheap seeds, snaffle some of the bubblewrap out of their fruit stand

[Lesley Jay]

Piglet the obvious answer to the problem of increased postal charges is to ask people to pay for the postage.

[kittykat8]

I would like some plants and will be more than happy to pay for postage I don't made being a gunnie pig. if it works it works.

If you would like to try at some point email me and I will send address to send to

Marion