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How much soil do you need?

Pick what you are filling, tap a size or type your own, and the answer updates as you go: every unit soil is sold in, and how many bags.

1What are you filling?

What are you filling?

2How big?

Units

Quick sizes

Depth

3What size bags?

Your answer

32cubic feet

906liters
239US gallons
958US quarts
1.19cubic yards
0.91cubic meters
16

bags of 2 cubic feet covers it

That is how much. The next question is what goes in it. Get the right mix for this, measured to fit

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Pots are worked out as a straight sided cylinder or box, so tapered pots take a little less. The amounts are the volume of the space, before any watering in.

Now you know how much. What goes in it?

The amount is half the answer. A raised bed of vegetables, a row of succulents and a tray of seedlings each want a different mix. Living Soil gives you the right one for the plant you are growing, from published references, and splits this exact volume into every ingredient.

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