Seed Trays

Many thanks TMTT - that's just the review I needed to save me some money! The comments were also worth reading. Time to ask myself the question - do I really need to buy them?

You don't really NEED to buy them, the question is do you really WANT them, if so treat yourself.

OK, Do I really want them (enough to spend money)?

OK, Do I really want them (enough to spend money)?

Probably not    remember you're the moneyless chicken.

Here's the volumes of each cell in the different cell trays:

Standard 24 - 100ml
Standard 12 - 110ml
Standard 9 - 140ml
Standard 6 - 240ml
Dowding - 21ml
Huw - 70ml
77L - 35ml
40L - 70ml
28L - 115ml
15L - 310ml (a bit bigger than a standard round 9cm pot)
77H - 60ml
40H - 115ml
28H - 210ml
15H - 500ml

Here's the volumes of each cell in the different cell trays:

Standard 24 - 100ml
Standard 12 - 110ml
Standard 9 - 140ml
Standard 6 - 240ml
Dowding - 21ml
Huw - 70ml
77L - 35ml
40L - 70ml
28L - 115ml
15L - 310ml (a bit bigger than a standard round 9cm pot)
77H - 60ml
40H - 115ml
28H - 210ml
15H - 500ml

That's incredibly technical TMTT, a good deal of research went into it I'm sure.  Being  old school and old tech the written  volumes mean  very little to me, I've got to see them side by side. That's entirely my fault.

I have a simple way of measuring volume - with my kitchen measuring cups! The one I use most often, holds an ounce of oats and 80ml or 1/3 cup. With my measuring cup in front of me, I can look at TMTT's list and decide which ones are compost meanies and which ones are compost greedies.
There - simples.
Thanks TMTT for your hard work.

Don't worry, I didn't have to calculate them myself! Containerwise have the volumes on their website and the rest were just from a quick Google. The only one I had to use a calculator website for was the standard 24 cell - apparently a tapered cube is called a truncated square pyramid.

I think for my purposes the 15H would be good for tomatoes/peppers/cucumbers and the 40H for beans/sweetcorn. Huw's /40L are a bit too small and the 28L a bit too big to replace the standard 24 cell tray for me.

I thought Containerwise were the manufacturers but they're actually made in Portugal by this company - https://www.sinorplasticos.com/en/produt...ecordID=56

I love my containerwise trays. I got the deep ones - worth every penny. Not the super small. I couldn't stand split and broken trays anymore. I am growing lots of seedlings and a split in a tray can easily end up with a cut.

A few days ago I decided I didn't need any seedtrays but.......yesterday, having found some dollars that I'd forgotten I had, I've decided to spend them on seed trays.
I've ordered 5 x 28 low trays and 4 x 40 low trays and, using a 5% discount code, they cost £65.46. Its a lot more money that I would normally spend on the garden but hopefully, they'll see me through until I'm kicking up daisies.
The discount code is OAK0222 valid for September only. I think it applies to anything on the Oakland Gardens website. https://www.oaklandgardens.co.uk/
P&P is free - even to the Highlands and Islands.