Raised bed soil calculator
Measure inside the walls and choose a fill depth. Work out bags and cubic yards for your raised bed.
Garden and landscape calculators
Choose what you are working out. Each calculator starts with an example you can replace, shows its arithmetic, and works in feet or meters.
Filling raised beds
Soil inside the walls, the mix, and how to buy it.
Raised bed soil mix calculator
Split your bed’s volume into topsoil, compost and other ingredients, with bags of each.
Bagged vs bulk soil calculator
Compare bags with a delivered bulk load using your own quotes.
Soil for your bed or pot size
Soil for 23 common bed sizes and 8 pot sizes, ready worked out.
Mulch, soil, stone and sand
Layers you spread on the ground, in bags, cubic yards and tons.
Mulch calculator
Work out how many bags or cubic yards of mulch to buy for your beds, borders and tree rings, at the depth you want.
Topsoil calculator
Measure the ground and the layer you want to add, then work out your topsoil order in bags, cubic yards and weight.
Compost calculator
Work out compost for topping up raised beds, amending a new bed or top-dressing a lawn, in bags and cubic yards.
Gravel and stone calculator
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.
Sand calculator
Work out sand for paver bedding, fill or a sandbox in cubic yards, tons and bags, from the area and the depth you need.
Patios, paths, driveways and edges
Hard landscaping, layer by layer.
Paver calculator
Count pavers for a patio or garden path, with separate quantities for the base and bedding sand.
Paver base calculator
Work out the crushed-stone base and bedding sand under a patio, walkway or driveway in cubic yards and tons.
Polymeric sand calculator
Count bags of polymeric joint sand from your paved area and the coverage the maker publishes for your paver size and joint width.
Gravel driveway calculator
Work out each layer of a gravel driveway, from the base course to the top stone, in cubic yards and tons.
Landscape edging calculator
Measure around a bed, border or path and work out feet of edging, pieces to buy and stakes to hold them.
Lawns
Sod and seed for the area you measured.
Sod calculator
Work out the lawn area you need to cover, then count rolls or pallets using your sod farm’s sizes.
Grass seed calculator
Work out pounds of grass seed for a new lawn or overseeding, from your lawn area and the seeding rate for your grass type.
Area, volume and weight
The conversions every order needs.
Cubic yard calculator
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.
Square footage calculator
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.
Cubic yards to tons 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.
Planning the garden
Space, reach, plants and water.
Raised bed garden planner
Keep beds, soil, layout and watering in one plan you can save and share.
Raised bed layout planner
Check that your beds fit, with paths, and that you can reach the middle.
Plant spacing calculator
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.
Drip line and parts calculator
Count dripline, emitters, connectors and end closures for your beds.
Drip irrigation kit fit checker
Check a watering kit against your beds, pressure and tubing route.
Measure the right space first
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.