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Some garden center bags shown in liters and some in kg.

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  • 06-06-2018 7:39pm
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    Worztron
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    Hi.

    I've noticed in garden centers that they sell for example bags of Multi Purpose Compost in liters and do no show the weight in kg. Bags of grass seed are shown in kg but not liters. Why is this? Surely a better system would be to show both liters and kg.

    Thanks.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."

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    Lumen
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    Compost weight varies depending on water content, so they use volume because it's a more stable measure.

    Grass seed settles so the volume varies, but it's dry so they use kg, also because application area is calculated in grams/sqm.


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    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,674 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Lumen wrote: »
    Compost weight varies depending on water content, so they use volume because it's a more stable measure.

    Grass seed settles so the volume varies, but it's dry so they use kg, also because application area is calculated in grams/sqm.

    Hi Lumen. Ah, so the water content is key. Thanks.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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