Soil Calculators..

[chris]

I've just gone onto a site to work out how much soil I need to buy to fill the beds that I've dug out.

just going on an 11ft x 3ft (rough estimates) bed, which is say 1ft deep (I have compost that I'm going to mix in with it to fill it up higher) I need 2 tonnes?

That seems an awful lot to me. I know soil is heavy, but 2 tonnes of soil for one bed? I need to fill 3 beds at the mo, with perhaps a further 3 coming on shortly...

I'm sure when I built a trough which was probably 8'x3'x2' I used 1 and a half 35L bags of compost?

Does this seem right?

[Pies]

well 1 tonne of anything,oil sand,compost is delivered in 1cubic yard bags 3ftx3ftx3ft = 27 cubic ft

your bed is 33 cubic ft

hth

[chris]

flippin eck !

And the mrs wants a sand pit for the baby? no way am I wheeling all that Wonder if they'll drop it over the back wall hehe.

Thanks, i'll give em a bell in the morning + order!