Raised bed soil calculator
Measure inside the walls and choose a fill depth. Work out bags and cubic yards for your raised bed.
Choose what you are working out. Each calculator starts with an example you can replace, shows its arithmetic, and works in feet or meters.
Soil inside the walls, the mix, and how to buy it.
Measure inside the walls and choose a fill depth. Work out bags and cubic yards for your raised bed.
Split your bed’s volume into topsoil, compost and other ingredients, with bags of each.
Compare bags with a delivered bulk load using your own quotes.
Soil for 23 common bed sizes and 8 pot sizes, ready worked out.
Layers you spread on the ground, in bags, cubic yards and tons.
Work out how many bags or cubic yards of mulch to buy for your beds, borders and tree rings, at the depth you want.
Measure the ground and the layer you want to add, then work out your topsoil order in bags, cubic yards and weight.
Work out compost for topping up raised beds, amending a new bed or top-dressing a lawn, in bags and cubic yards.
Calculate gravel, crushed stone or decorative rock for a path, border or base in cubic yards, bags and US tons, using the weight of your chosen stone.
Work out sand for paver bedding, fill or a sandbox in cubic yards, tons and bags, from the area and the depth you need.
Hard landscaping, layer by layer.
Count pavers for a patio or garden path, with separate quantities for the base and bedding sand.
Work out the crushed-stone base and bedding sand under a patio, walkway or driveway in cubic yards and tons.
Count bags of polymeric joint sand from your paved area and the coverage the maker publishes for your paver size and joint width.
Work out each layer of a gravel driveway, from the base course to the top stone, in cubic yards and tons.
Measure around a bed, border or path and work out feet of edging, pieces to buy and stakes to hold them.
Sod and seed for the area you measured.
Work out the lawn area you need to cover, then count rolls or pallets using your sod farm’s sizes.
Work out pounds of grass seed for a new lawn or overseeding, from your lawn area and the seeding rate for your grass type.
The conversions every order needs.
Turn an area and a depth into cubic yards, cubic feet and cubic meters for soil, mulch, gravel or any bulk material, with the area one yard covers at each depth.
Measure a rectangle, circle, triangle or irregular area in parts and get square feet, square yards, square meters and acres, ready for any material calculator.
Convert cubic yards to pounds and tons for gravel, sand, topsoil or mulch, then see how many wheelbarrow loads and vehicle trips it takes.
Space, reach, plants and water.
Keep beds, soil, layout and watering in one plan you can save and share.
Check that your beds fit, with paths, and that you can reach the middle.
Count how many plants fit a raised bed or border at the spacing on your seed packet or plant label, in a square grid or offset rows.
Count dripline, emitters, connectors and end closures for your beds.
Check a watering kit against your beds, pressure and tubing route.
For fill inside a raised bed, measure between the inner walls. For lawn, mulch or paving, measure the ground you will cover and leave beds and gaps out. The soil measuring guide explains why outside dimensions can overstate a soil order.