Pot sizes

You are so right! USA pint = 1 pound, 16 oz; Imperial pint = 20 oz. USA dollar = 100 pennies, British pound = 240 pennies (guinea 252). I sometimes forget the basics.

Really plays havoc in discussing Miles Per Gallon across the Atlantic; epically as km and liters will creep in.

 

Its what you get when you order a pint and the sales moron says "Can I supersize that for you?"

 

@colne , we have had a hundred pennies to the pound since about 1971, and unless your into buying race horses I dont think we use guineas anymore.
Is a eupoean litre the same as a US liter, I seem to remember once that a US liter was described as a quart, when buying Bacardi, which was I guess two US pints, which is slightly less than two imperial pints.

 

FC....this is what I've been growing tomatoes and cucumbers in for years.....

http://www.diy.com/nav/rooms/cleani...d-Q-Orange-Bucket-12L-10607581?skuId=11098289

A bit bright I know but they serve their purpose. I just drill four holes in the bottom and cover those with some stones.

Here on the island imperial measurement is still our 'first language' although we use metric as well. I have to go shopping with both measures as I never know which one will need to be used and I'm hopeless at conversion.

 

I know - I remember the hard time converting to 'new pence' and how all the tourist vendors lost billions collectively ripping off the tourists. Britain went down hill from the moment of conversion. In my lifetime I dread where it will all be. Returning to much of my old parts of London is like nothing the same but the buildings - and they are mostly scruffier.

Liters are universal, based of some mass of something elemental and tied to the gram. (oz/pounds being weight, (so gravity based) where grams are based on mass - so universal, even on the moon.) Still Bosch cr*p and the sign that WWI was really lost. Meters are based on wavelength of something so universal where the good, and excellent, foot is based on the foot.

Next you will give up all that common law claptrap when ECHR expands to be the ECOE (European court of everything)

 

Very useful information as usual from the members here

What size pot would be best for Sweet Peppers and Aubergines please?

 

I like to refer to the pots in my garden as small, medium and large, round, square and rectangle. All this volume talk is too complicated hehe!

 

I salvage wood, ideally 2" X 8", cut it into about 12" to 14" long pieces - one foot fine, but smaller - nail them together into a slightly rectangular frame (10d nails or is that not used any more?) place on the ground and dig under where it goes a bit, then fill it 6" deep with some grow medium. Like the sq ft garden thing but more so, then 2" mulch if it works there.

I like those a lot - but it is for permanent placing. Makes it all neat and demarcates where the grass, gravel, flowers end. Makes for exceptionally easy weeding. Houses 1 plant and a couple flowers or herbs. These are salvaged 1" X 8" (8d nails), I think 16 inches on a side, so quite a bit larger than 12 inch. Use pressure treated if you can tolerate it, the modern treatment no longer has arsenic but is copper based here - and safe, safe as plastic.

 

Those Orange buckets from B&Q never got a good review but the black ones got a much better response, so I brought 4 of these and they are the same price as the orange buckets and better quality as well.......these are 13.6L in size (3 Gallon)

http://www.diy.com/nav/build/buildi...uilder-s-Bucket-3-Gallons-12207539?icamp=recs

Paid £4 for 4 buckets, drilled 5 x 12mm holes in the bottom and then repotted my cucumbers into the new pots

 

You cant beat the old £1 bucket as a planter - you also get a built in carry handle !