While my wife Michele and I were shopping in Winco yesterday, the
first thing I noticed at the entrance was a shelf full of flower bulbs
for spring planting. I examined a package for any measurement. The
only measure I found was approximate bulb size given in cm only. That
experience was refreshing.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:25:35 +0100
From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:52609] RE: The joys of metric gardening
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Jim,
I think that one calculator was needed - a properly-functioning brain!
Martin
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of James Frysinger
Sent: 06 April 2013 22:46
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:52608] The joys of metric gardening
My wife has just cleared some large weeds from a hill sloping away from our
house's north wall and she announced that she wants to smother it in mulch.
The question immediately arose, "How many bags of mulch will it take?"
I had her look at a bag of mulch left from last year and she told me it
contained some number (which I've already forgotten) of cubic feet or 85 L
of mulch. Yes, our local nursery supplier dual labels the bags!
I showed her 85 mm of yellow metal tape sticking out of my metric tape
measure and she said that was a nice depth for the coverage she wanted.
I told her that 1 L = 1 m² x 1 mm and so one bag would cover 1 m² to a depth
of 85 mm. We then went out and determined the area to be covered was 7 m by
9 m or 63 m². Ergo, we needed 63 bags of mulch -- about 2 trips worth in my
F-250. No calculators were needed.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
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