Gardening with twelve 100+ pound concrete flower pots

[Cleo]

Found out that if I tip the flower pots on their side they can be rolled pretty easy.

I've got half of them moved to where I want them. Going to decide where to put the rest over the next few days and place them.

They are 18" high and 24" across. That looks like a whole lot of potting soil. Probably best to get a truck load or something once the weather cools off rather then buying enough bags to fill twelve of them. I know it is something like diameter x Pi x hight or something like that to figure out cubic feet but not really sure.

The ones that I've moved into place do look real nice. Going to have to get something to place under the low sides of each one to level them out.

[SirMoby]

Why do you put yourself through such abuse?

[Cleo]

I've often asked myself the same question.

My rich neighbor was throwing them away so he had his yard people deliver them to my place in oder to just get rid of them.

Not sure what I'm going to plant in them yet.

[spacemanspiff]

You sure those are flower pots? They look like they'd be more suitable for plants.

Big, bushy plants with sticky....uhh....leaves. Yeah, leaves.

[cd34]

Pi * Radius ^ 2 * Height = volume of a cylinder. Then you get the fun of converting that to something like cubic yards which gardening companies tend to use. You COULD make your measurements in yards to avoid one computation.

3.1415 * .66 yards squared * .5 yards = or .684 cubic yards per pot.

12 pots would be about 8.2 yards of potting soil

Never have I had to use so much geometry since doing yardwork.