Repeating Decimal wrote:
The five gallon containers for plants always seemed small to me. Today I got
to measure one of them. When I calculated the volume, it was 3.4 gallons not
five. Am I missing something? Is there a arcane standard for this?

Bill


That's about right. A gallon pot normally holds about 3/4 gallon. Don't
try to make sense of it.

Lorenzo L. Love
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