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Mar 08, 2023 - 08:51 AM
You'll want to calculate the volume of soil needed to fill the garden bed. To calculate the volume, you'll need to measure the length and width of your garden bed. Then, you'll have to decide how deep you want the soil to be. That will depend on the plants you want, to some extent, but most succulents don't need to root deeply. 4-8 inches of soil will be plenty. Then, the calculation becomes simple, just multiply the length, width, and depth of your garden bed together. Be sure that the units of your measurements are the same. Either measure everything in feet or in inches.
For example, someone has a garden bed that they want to fill with soil. Say their bed is 4 feet wide by 6 feet long and they want a soil depth of 8 inches. For them to calculate the volume, all the units must be the same, so they covert the length and width to inches. That's 48 inches wide by 72 inches long and the soil depth is still 8 inches. Multiplying these together gets you 27,648 inches cubed (48 * 72 * 8 = 27648). That's great but the bags are in gallons so they'll have to covert inches cubed to gallons. Google has a great converter, which I'll link to below, and it says that 27,648 inches cubed equals, roughly, 119.7 gallons.
For example, someone has a garden bed that they want to fill with soil. Say their bed is 4 feet wide by 6 feet long and they want a soil depth of 8 inches. For them to calculate the volume, all the units must be the same, so they covert the length and width to inches. That's 48 inches wide by 72 inches long and the soil depth is still 8 inches. Multiplying these together gets you 27,648 inches cubed (48 * 72 * 8 = 27648). That's great but the bags are in gallons so they'll have to covert inches cubed to gallons. Google has a great converter, which I'll link to below, and it says that 27,648 inches cubed equals, roughly, 119.7 gallons.
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