Sandbaggy Burlap Sand Bag - Size: 14" x 26" - Sandbags 50lb Weight Capacity - For Flooding, Flood Water Barrier, Tent Sandbags, Store Bags - Sand Not Included (50 Bags)

I prefer the burlap material for several reasons, namely longer lasting than plastic, naturally biodegradable, and extremely sturdy. They don’t tear or leak soil contents even when roughly handled and dropped. I have used about 150 bags and the high quality is consistent. The last 100 bags I am placing in areas of soil erosion on a bare earth slope. My hope is that over several years they will weaken and spill the soils onto the slope in a slow rebuild of the ground. I am very pleased with this product.

Will be using these bags to cover my seedling trees this winter.

I took one star off because one of the bags isn't as durable as the rest given the price. I do like the size. Will be ordering more, I use them to direct rain runoff along my driveway. I spray painted them "camo" with green paint to help them blend between driveway and grass. It's my under $50 solution to a problem the township introduced when they repaved the road, a lot more runoff comes on my side now, rather than spending at least $1,000 to bury some kind of rocks or brick to redirect.

I used these with a mix of the standard polypropylene bags--25 of these and 75 of the others. These cost more but I really liked them--they're more flexible than the others so they fit together more closely and provide a more solid barrier (I was using mine as a bullet backstop that has to be good to stop .308 Win rounds). They look far better too than the stark white of the other sandbags. Just a pleasure to use and they stack really well. In hindsight I'd probably pay more and just use these.

I'm using this product to store flower bulbs in vermiculite. It's was important to be to be able to order just 1 bag and a smaller size (versus the big potato sacks). This one allows air flow, but doesn't allow leakage with the vermiculite. It's perfect for what I'm using it for. It's sturdy and durable as well.

Make sure to look at second picture. I saw can hold 50 lbs and was expecting the size of a feed sack. These are small sacks. No other problems that I can see.

No one wants to need sandbags to prepare for a potential flood, but if you are in that situation like I was, these bags are perfect. Many people in our town got white polypropylene bags instead of burlap bags, because the town was handing them out for free. With a couple of months, those bags were literally ripping apart and shredding just from sitting outside! Our burlap sandbags looked as good as new in the same timeframe. Fortunately, our area of town didn't flood, but there were multiple floods north of us and they are expecting more. People from that area were very happy to get my already used (& filled) burlap sandbags when I didn't need them anymore, so those sandbags are still serving our community, months after the other kind have fallen apart.

I filled 10 bags with sand and set them out to protect the low perimeter of my shed from monsoon flooding. After about 3 weeks when I decided to move them, I found 8 of the 10 bags had rotted so bad they dumped most of the sand out on to the ground. I bought burlap bags hoping they would last the entire monsoon season. We live in Tucson, which is high desert and not usually damp for long periods. I am not impressed.