On Apr 9, 11:29*am, wrote:
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:15:16 AM UTC-4, MICHELLE H. wrote:
Because this thing being 30 feet long, 2-3 feet wide, and 1-2 feet deep,
I probably need like 50 bags of topsoil!?

A trench 30' long, 3' wide, 2' deep is almost 7 cubic yards. A bag of topsoil is usually about 1/2 cubic foot, so it will take 54 to make up just one cubic yard of LOOSE topsoil. It will pack down.

You're looking at 350-400 bags of topsoil to fill this trench by the time all is said and done.

It will cost you far less to hire a landscaper to come with a dump truck and a few strong young men with wheelbarrows and shovels. They will fill in the bulk of the trench with gravel for drainage, then cover it with topsoil. It will all be over in an hour or two, and you will not even know they were there.

That's one option. The other is to have a load delivered and
dumped in the driveway. Park the cars in the street for a day or
two. Regulations and customs will vary, but around
here, NJ, lots of people have stuff like this delivered and
dumped in the street next to the curb and then wheelbarrow
it themselves in a day or two.

The other thing here is I don't think asking for what kind
of bagged topsoil is good is going to be productive. I
would think almost all of them are local, ie they aren't likely
to ship bagged topsoil from IL to CT. And it probably
varies from season to season, or even within a season
depending on what source is available.