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I like the baggies with the twist tie. Naomi From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Dorogi I’ve been bagging apples using
sandwich bags and noticed a few things. I bought 900 bags at Meijer, since they
were cheap (about $6.50 per 300 count box) but the seals just don’t snap
shut well. After one day, some had come off, and the seal has opened up
on many others. So I bought some at Kroger and although
they are slightly more expensive, they have deeper grooves on the seal and they
close very securely and tightly. Last year I used these Kroger bags and
they stayed on all year. I’m surprised that there’s such a
difference in the bags. It takes a while to prepare these baggies
for use. I cut off the lower two corners with a sharp knife (10 to 15
bags at a time) and them remove the excess flap near the seal with scissors. After installing 200 of these baggies, I
noticed an obvious thing: there is no need to remove the flap for long stem
apple varieties. Most of my trees have pretty long stems, so I can save some
work by skipping that step. I do have a couple short stem varieties though that
will require that extra step. Mark
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