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Garden & Landscaping Planner

One spreadsheet for garden and landscaping projects. List your beds, paths and lawns once and get mulch, topsoil, compost, gravel, sand and turf quantities in bags or bulk, with delivery weights, a budget, an expense log, a shopping list and a month-by-month plan for your hemisphere.

What's inside

• Areas: up to 25 beds, borders, paths or lawns: rectangles, circles or a known area.
• Materials: mulch, topsoil, compost, gravel and sand for each area: volume, bags, bulk to order and weight, priced by the bag or in bulk.
• Turf: pieces or rolls and pallets for new lawns.
• Budget and Expenses: 11 categories from plants to delivery, planned against actual, with a chart.
• Shopping List: bags or bulk for each material, ready for the garden centre.
• Season Plan: jobs by month, with your spring and autumn months for the northern or southern hemisphere.

How the numbers work

The quantities use the same formulas as our free mulch, topsoil, gravel and sod calculators. Default depths, settling allowances and densities are listed with their sources inside the file (for example, mulch depth from University of Georgia and Mississippi State University Extension), and you can change every one.

Good to know

• Format: One .xlsx file. Works with Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc.
• Units: feet and inches or metres and millimetres, and any currency.
• Limits: It plans quantities and spending. It doesn’t tell you what to plant or when: use local advice for your climate.
• Refunds: If the file doesn't work for you, email hello@yardstickly.com within 14 days for a full refund.
• Questions? Contact us.

Quantities are estimates for planning. Check product labels and local building rules before you buy or build.