Gardening is growing and cultivating plants. Gardening includes planting, watering, weeding, fertilizing, and caring for plants to encourage healthy growth and development. People garden for many reasons, including aesthetics, food production, relaxation, and environmental benefits.

Types of gardening include:

1. Vegetable Gardening: Growing edible plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and herbs for personal consumption.
2. Flower Gardening: Cultivating ornamental flowers such as roses, tulips, daisies, and lilies for their beauty and fragrance.
3. Fruit Gardening: Growing fruit-bearing plants like apples, strawberries, blueberries, and citrus trees for fresh fruit.
4. Herb Gardening: Cultivating herbs like basil, mint, thyme, and cilantro for culinary or medicinal purposes.
5. Container Gardening: Growing plants in raised gardens, containers or pots, ideal for small spaces like balconies or patios.
6. Indoor Gardening: Cultivating plants indoors using pots, planters, or hydroponic systems, suitable for homes or offices without outdoor space.
7. Landscaping: Designing and planting gardens to enhance the beauty and functionality of outdoor spaces, including features like lawns, trees, shrubs, and flower beds.

Gardening offers numerous benefits, including physical activity, stress relief, improved mental well-being, access to fresh produce, and creating a connection with nature. It's a rewarding and enjoyable hobby that allows individuals to express their creativity while nurturing living plants.

Raised Garden and Planter Soil Calculator

• Soil for Box Planter: Computes the soil volume of a rectangular box shaped raised planter.
• Soil for Circular Planter: Computes the volume and associated amount of soil for a circular planter (tapered or straight) based on the top diameter, base diameter and height.
• Soil for Tapered Rectangular Planter : Computes the volume and associated amount of soil needed for a tapered rectangular planter based on the top and bottom side lengths and height.
• Soil for Polygon Shaped Planter: Computes the volume of soil needed for a polygon shaped planter based on its shape (number of sides) and dimensions including the length of the sides and the height (depth).
• Soil for Triangular Planter: Computes the volume and associated amount of soil for a triangular shaped planter based on the side lengths (a, b, c) and (h) height.
• Soil for Hexagon Planter: Computes the volume and associated amount of soil for a hexagon shaped planter based on the length of the sides and height.
• Soil for Octagon Planter: Computes the volume and associated soil amount for an octagon planter based on the length of the sides and the height. 
• Soil Needed for 3 Tier Raised Garden: Computes the amount of garden soil or potting mix needed for a three tier (step) raised garden based on the dimensions of the tiers.  
• Cost of Soil: Computes the cost of a volume of soil base on unit price.
• Water Requirement to Prepare Soil: Estimates the minimum and maximum water range for plant growth to apply to initially moisten soil so that plants will not suffer from over or under watering.
• Conversions to Common Kitchen Units:  This takes any volume measurement (you choose the units) and converts it into house-hold kitchen units.  For example, 0.9 ft³ turns into 6 Gallons, 2 Quarts, 1 Pints, 1.5 Cups, 3 Tablespoons and 1.54 teaspoons.  This is useful in measuring soil and nutrient supplements.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Use the interior dimension of the planters and a height to match the depth of soil desired.