An Easy-to-Use Fertilizer Spreader Can Save You Money

You don’t have to hire a professional lawn care service in order to have beautiful green grass between your vegetable gardens and flowerbeds. With a good fertilizer spreader, the proper type of lawn food and just a little time, you can have a lush green lawn.

Lawns need fertilizing and weed control from early spring through late fall. One easy way to keep up with your lawn’s fertilizing and pest control needs is to follow a lawn care program. Scott’s Fertilizer offers a user-friendly annual weed and feed system.

Go to the Scott’s web site (lawncare.scotts.com) and enter your zip code and type of grass. The site will give you instructions on which fertilizers to apply and when to spread them on your lawn. You can buy the fertilizers at local home and garden stores. You will save money if you buy all the fertilizers you’ll need for the season (usually three to four bags of different weed and feed mixes) at one time.

Choose the Type of Spreader

Once you have the fertilizer, all you need is a spreader. Two types of easy-to-operate spreaders are available. A drop spreader distributes granular fertilizer from the bottom in rows that are the same width as the spreader itself. A rotary or broadcast spreader distributes fertilizer in a circle around the spreader.

Both types of spreaders work well for fertilizing lawns. The job will go a little quicker with a rotary spreader because you can cover a larger area (as much as eight feet) with each pass.

To make sure you get fertilizer on every inch of the lawn, overlap each pass with a drop spreader a few inches with the previous pass. When fertilizing with a rotary spreader, overlap each pass by 1/3 of its total width.

Never pull a spreader backwards. Be sure to adjust the settings on your spreader according to the directions on the bag of fertilizer you’re applying.

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