Garden planning kit

Time plantings to the frost date, size the soil and fertilizer for a raised bed, and work out the mulch or grass seed to finish it.

garden 8 items

5 hosted tools, 3 workflows

In this collection

• Garden Planting Calendar
  From your last spring frost date, get a per-crop schedule: when to start seeds indoors, when to plant out, and approximate harvest start.hosted tool
• Raised-Bed Soil Calculator
  Soil volume for one or more raised beds (cu ft / cu yd / bag counts) plus a standard 60/30/10 topsoil-compost-aeration mix breakdown.hosted tool
• Fertilizer Calculator
  Pounds of fertilizer product to deliver a target nitrogen rate over an area, from the bag's N percentage (first N-P-K number), with a rate-options table.hosted tool
• Mulch / Ground-Cover Calculator
  Mulch volume for a bed from area and depth — cubic feet, cubic yards, and 2/3 cu ft bag counts, with an optional waste factor and a depth-options table.hosted tool
• Grass Seed Calculator
  Grass seed needed for an area, for a new lawn or overseeding — pounds of seed and 50 lb bag count, with a new-vs-overseed comparison.hosted tool
• Plan a vegetable garden from frost dates
  Build a planting calendar off the last frost date, mulch the bed for moisture retention, then seed any bare ground around it.workflow
• Size soil and fertilizer for a raised bed
  Calculate the soil volume needed for a raised bed, work out the fertilizer needed to hit a target nitrogen rate, then mulch the top.workflow
• Reseed a lawn and calculate ground cover
  Calculate grass seed needed for a lawn area, mulch any bare patches, then work out the fertilizer schedule to establish it.workflow