Pot sizes

Here is a link which might help: http://www.beckfieldnurseries.com/plant-pot-sizes.html

 

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Here's some of my 10Litre pots, 10" inside diameter below the (11" dia) rim, and 8" inside diameter at the base. 10p each from boot sale.



P.S. The largest size of Morrisons flower buckets is 8 Litres.

 

Yes. I reckon on a 12" pot for Cucumbers / Tomatoes, which is about 10L. If you have the choice I would get deeper (can still be 10L, will just be taller & narrower), particularly for Tomatoes so you can then "plant deep". Alternatively cut the bottom out of a smaller pot, e.g. 2L, and place that over the Tomato plant (once planted into the 10L pot) and fill it with compost to "bury" the stem a bit.

Don't do that for Cucumbers!! (they are prone to stem rot)

 

For another example , your standard bucket (£1 ) much loved by the GC Canna growers is about 15 litres.

 

Dont know why we cant stick to inches or even the dreaded cm, I can visualise those in my head, but thinking about how big a litre is is stupid, and then two litres and so on.

You actually need a calculator to buy flower pots, crazy.

 

Is that a one gallon bucket or a two gallon bucket, or just one of those you get when you buy chicken pellets?

 

Indeed. I need a 6" pot (about 1L), or a 6" Deep one (about 2L) ...

 

I would say anything under 15l is a bit small for any major plant like cucumbers and tomatoes, but then that is likely because of the heat here means drying quickly from plant transpiration. Here I like to use 1 cubic foot, to throw in another annoying variable (7.5 gallons which would be 28 liters).

Also the plant does not need that amount of soil, just that mass to buffer water use / depletion. So I put the bottom half full of chopped up, preferably part rotted, oak leaves. I have heard pinecones and pine bark also work well that way. (broken up pine bark being the best) Then the actual growing medium for the top half. (the leaves, bark, cones are because they are cheap/free and light)

 

I think a cubic foot is 6.25 gallons in the UK.
Not being picky
The whole set up of pot sizes is a nightmare these days.
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If they just made standard pots with a diameter that increased in depth as the diameter increased, just like in the old days, then you went onto differing depths for certain plants.
I find those ones often used by nurseries are far too deep,. and I'm digging into solid clay in order to plant.

 

Pete ya standard British bucket is a 3 gallon ( 15 litre ) bucket. Smaller sizes its best to think in cans of beer at 0.44 litres per can

 

Oh yes, the 440ml can of beer, why is it 440mls for gods sake
And then we have the bottles ranging from the tiny continental 250mls to the 330 mls and the 500mls, who works this lot out, its ridiculous.

Actually pot sizes are easy comp[ared to beer bottles, what happened to the pint?

 

The pint became 561 millilitres or 20 fluid ounces . Like you , what the heck is 440mls doing as a beer can size ! Sell it by the litre and save on can opening time

 

7.5 UK Imperial Gallons = 34 Litres

7.5 US Gallons = 28 Litres

P.S. UK Homebrewers be careful if using US websites for recipes, as you will need to increase your amount of fruit/sugar per gallon by 20% to get the proportions right.