Garden & Landscaping Planner (Excel & Google Sheets)

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 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, for the northern or southern hemisphere.

How the numbers work: the same formulas as the free mulch, topsoil, gravel and sod calculators on yardstickly.com. Default depths, settling allowances and densities are listed with their sources inside the file, and you can change every one.

Format: one .xlsx file for Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice Calc. Feet or metres, any currency.

Good to know: it plans quantities and spending. It doesn’t tell you what to plant; use local advice for your climate.