Lawn Fertilizer Spreader

[Ride1949]

Why in the world would you pay $20.00 for an empty jug to use on a fertilizer spreader wheel? Pretty sure a gallon jug would work for your average push type spreader. Two for $10.00, plus you get a germ-free house!

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cloralen...scented-121-fl-oz/694810158?classType=VARIANT
ETA: Some other options to consider.

https://www.walmart.com/search?q=plastic plate&related=true
Now if you're using one of these...

 

[peachhead]

This is why I have a yard, not a lawn. Weeds are green too.

 

[gnappi]

Fertilizer spreaders... boy that's tough, but here are the two I feel are the best and most efficient fertilizer spreaders. Oh, oh wait you mean for lawns? That's been covered above

 

[GasGuzzler]

Scott's SpeedyGreen 2000 here. Bought it in about 2006. The color on the setting dial has bleached and the cable (nylon not metal) has stretched a little and is sticky but still works as long as you set the thing on a higher number than it says. Otherwise it's fine after almost 20 years of use. In fact, I picked up a 40 pound bag of 15-5-10 on sale at Walmart for $10 yesterday and I am putting it on this morning when it gets light enough while the dew is still down. I only use it for feed and that's about once per six weeks from April to October. I use it for pre-emergent twice a year. For all the killing chems like Image and Celsius WG, I use liquid, not granular. For a 1/4-1/2 acre lot with a house, consider $300-400 electric (rechargeable) backpack sprayer and convert to liquid.

 

[GasGuzzler]

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[eveled]

Have to agree. I haven't put anything on mine for 30+ years and it just keeps growing, so no help on spreader issues.

This is why I have a yard, not a lawn. Weeds are green too.

Same here. Some of the weeds in my yard are edible too.

 

[gnappi]

My picture won't load.

Check with the "office" if the file extension is supported here and also see if your image is linked to a secure site like Ebay which may not post.

 

[Kevin]

This is why I have a yard, not a lawn. Weeds are green too.

If you look up the difference between weeds and plants a lot simply has to do with location.

 

[turd]

Just to finally put this thread to bed, it was me all along, not the spreader. I used a drop spreader for many years and have struggled with the broadcast version. With a drop spreader you need to be in the last row's wheel line with each new row. With a broadcast spreader you need to guess where each new row goes. In my trying to save money mode I was going farther and farther away from the last row with each new one, eventually leaving lines where there just wasn't enough fertilizer. Tightened that back up, and voila! it works again.

Thanks for all the replies, but the answer was me. A bit humbling, but worth learning.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Glad you explained it. Might have helped someone else learn. I did mine yesterday morning after logging off here. There was still a lot of dew so I could tell where I'd been.

 

[larry8]

I have a Scotts hand held spreader that takes 4 batteries and have used it for 6 years. I use Scotts weed & feed 2-3 times per year except this year I only used it once in March. A lot of the residences here stopped using fertilizer and their lawn looks just as good as everyone else's. Thats why I stopped using it too. I'll see what happens in March of next year.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I use Scotts weed & feed 2-3 times per year except this year I only used it once in March.

You can do way better than that for way less money. The larger bag of Scott's W/F has gone to $50 per bag here. To feed (I don't use weed and feed, I prevent and kill weeds separately), I use a generic granular brand Walmart sells for $14 in season (just got a bag last weekend for $10 on sale) and it's perfect for Texas with 15-5-10. Some of the Scott's stuff has 30-0-2. That's just a temporary greener that can eventually make it yellow. I put the 15-5-10 on once per month from April to October. I use liquid Image and Celsius WG with a surfactant twice per year in a 2.5 gallon carry sprayer for nut sedge, crabgrass, dallisgrass, poa anua, etc. The liquid I only spot spray so I have not gone to a big backpack rig. Stonewall in granular form gets put down early fall and early spring as a per-emergent.