How much mulch do you need to dress your garden? Enter the area of your garden in square feet and the desired depth of mulch. Click on the [Calculate] button and this calculator will return the number of cubic yards required. See below for square foot calculators for your beds and trees.
You may enter the area and depth with decimals or fractions (e.g. 4.75 or 4 3/4), but the results are in decimal form with two digits to the right of the decimal point.
Calculator scripts courtesy of Stephen Bucaro
Enter the length of the sides of the bed in feet and this calculator will return
the area in square feet. This calculator will work with rectangular areas (sides a & c are equal as are
sides b & d) as well as trapezoidal (two sides of the area must be parallel) shaped area.
Note the trapezoid pictured. Enter the parallel sides of the bed in box c and a with the longest side in box a.
This calculator uses the formula shown below:
Enter the radius of a circle, and the calculator will return the area. A radius is a straight line extending from the center of a circle to the circumference or surface (the radius of a circle is half the diameter.)
To calculate the sq ft area around a tree:
**Be sure to subtract the area of the tree after calculating your total bed area rather than not including it.
Example
for a bed extending out 5 ft. from a 2 ft. diameter tree,
you would calculate for 6 ft. radius (5 plus 1/2 of tree diam.),
then calculate for the radius of the tree (1 ft.) and subtract:
113.10 - 3.14 = 109.96 sq. ft.
Calculating just as a 5 ft. bed gives a result 31.43 sq. ft. short of the true area.
