My wife has just cleared some large weeds from a hill sloping away from
our house's north wall and she announced that she wants to smother it in
mulch. The question immediately arose, "How many bags of mulch will it
take?"
I had her look at a bag of mulch left from last year and she told me it
contained some number (which I've already forgotten) of cubic feet or 85
L of mulch. Yes, our local nursery supplier dual labels the bags!
I showed her 85 mm of yellow metal tape sticking out of my metric tape
measure and she said that was a nice depth for the coverage she wanted.
I told her that 1 L = 1 m² x 1 mm and so one bag would cover 1 m² to a
depth of 85 mm. We then went out and determined the area to be covered
was 7 m by 9 m or 63 m². Ergo, we needed 63 bags of mulch -- about 2
trips worth in my F-250. No calculators were needed.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
