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Weights measures and terminology

B3B3 Posts: 27,503

Could we agree the following:

Pots - what is large - medium - small?

When does a pot  become a container?

How many beans make five ?

How many angels can you get on the head of a pin?

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • Invicta2Invicta2 Posts: 663

    I only know the answer to your last question, which is nine million.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    A pot becomes a container at about £20.

    so that's 2 questions answeredimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503

    Invicta, I think that's the bicycles in Beijing. Are the angels riding them?

    You may well be right nut. It is all becoming clear. However, if you recycle a hollow object it becomes a container perhaps. But what if it's a yoghurt potimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Aster2Aster2 Posts: 629

    How long is never when planting raspberries? (They say never plant raspberries in a place where raspberries had grown before. That seems a bit impractical to say the least.)

  • Daryl2Daryl2 Posts: 452

    I would say that never is just a bit longer than a piece of string. 

    Not sure about the beans - 42 maybe? 

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    A large pot cannot be moved by one person, unless you are using a JCB or a wheeled pot mover and two large strong people  A medium pot can be moved by one gardener, but not far if full of compost, a small one can be popped around the garden as and when you choose - but then, so can a large one if you choose to do so!!  How long is a piece of string? As long as it needs to be to just fail to do the job you had hoped it would - or maybe not ………..

    A pot is a container when you feel the shape suggests something different from a flower pot shape - or not, maybe. If you have to make a hole in it rather than it coming with one it might be a container, or worn out wellies, or if it had something else in it before the compost it might be a container - or a pot if it was a saucepan …...

    One bean makes five, or fifty five if you plant them well.

    Ask God, I suggest as many as they choose, are you going to argue with the angels??

     

  • Children around here all know the answer to the beans one:

    One bean, two beans, a bean and a half and half a bean!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    did I miss the magic mushroom hand out?

    Devon.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601

    What about the has bean?

  • And in my garden we more usually come across the Might have bean image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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