applying a regular dose of fertiliser to your lawn is one of the key steps to keeping it looking
healthy and green in this video we're going to be talking about the Scots lawn spreader you
can see from the lawn it's looking pretty good this time of year however I can start to tell
in some spots the spring fertiliser that I put down is starting to wear off and it's time for
another dose in this video I'm going to be taking you through the Scotts lawn spreader
which is something I've been using to applied my granular fertiliser to the lawn with pretty good
results there is another reason why I apply and fertilise it to my lawn and this is what the lawn
looks like to everybody else a couple little sponges and this is what it looks like to me
yeah so so we've got some patches and we've got some disease I think it's
time to take a look at this spreader and get some fertiliser down I'm gonna be unboxing the
easy green Scott's lawn care spreader it's a rotary spreader ideal for larger Gardens
normal spreading with 1.8 meters and on/off trigger for accurate applications I've been
meaning to pick up a new spreader for a while because I was previously spreading using the
four in one built in hand spreaders but as I started to sort of get more into lawn care
I was trying to apply different types of products and I really wanted to invest in
a variable type of spreader to give me that flexibility and control for my applications
some pretty good advice in terms of the different types of patterns if you want to
take a look at when using the spreader and the spreader actually came fully assembled
so there's no real assembly work to be done which is a real plus so we can just take it
out the bag and pretty much start using it the first thing you've got to do is tighten
off the main handle these sort of locking wing nuts on the side tighten off and fix the handle
in place I was quite impressed with how these put together it's almost done like a captivated
ratchet type of system and they lock in really well it doesn't feel flimsy and they really do
the job to quickly tighten things on them the second thing you've got to do is fix the stand
to the frame again this is really easy The Stand falls back on itself and just clips into the frame
measuring up the width of the spreader is around 30 centimetres just a little bit over and the
height when it's fully stood up is around 1 meter and 10 centimetres if you're interested
in purchasing a garden spreader to take your DIY lawn care to the next level all the links these
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support the stream and keep making great videos for you guys so next feature on this spreader I
want to look at is how to control the application rate by the lever there's an adjustable ring which
you can turn and this ring basically controls how much the aperture at the bottom of the spreader
opens and such how much fertiliser gets released onto the spending mechanism the spreader mechanism
works by agitating the fertiliser a drops down through the gap and then gets distributed by
the disc at the bottom which is controlled by the wheels so taking a quick look at the user manual
the key piece of information that I got something from them here was about how to apply it depending
on what pattern of lawn you've got if you got a circular lawn it suggests to make an edging pass
and then up and downwards passes and if you've got a rectangular lawn we do two edging passes
and then up and down you can also see a graphic of how you should overlap the passes in between
each of the runs to ensure the best coverage if you're not sure I always recommend using a
lower set in and doing multiple passes on the lawn this is going to give you a best coverage because
you're attacking it from multiple different directions and if you reduce the set spread
it to the lowest setting you're less likely to over apply the fertiliser in one particular spot
let's take a look at how we can apply different types of fertiliser on the lawn using the spreader
I've got two different types of fertiliser to try out using the spreader to see how it
fares with different textures first up is this fibrous chicken manure fertiliser which has a
texture more similar to almost like compost compared to a granular fertiliser product I
had been concerned because there is more lighter type of material that it wouldn't travel through
the spreader but it was absolutely fine one thing to be aware of if you using a product
like this is it needs to be dry as any amount of moisture in the air is going to cause it to sort
of stick to the spreading mechanism and stick to the spreader itself which is going to give
you a poor quality application okay so test two is using the granular product this particular
product I'm using at the moment which is the a1 lawns fertiliser I found it to be really really
good product it's got traces of iron and seaweed amongst the regular fertiliser and I find that it
gives me really good results in the lawn with a deep green colour I've put a link to this if your
interested in the description below one of the things that I did by mistake when using this
was I pulled the trigger before I started walking what this can do is create almost like a dumping
effect onto the grass which can cause burn so a top tip for me is get a bit of travel on before
you start pulling the trigger just help it spread a little bit more evenly when you've sort of got
used to the range and the walking speed of the spreader this is a really really nice product
it massively speeds up your application time and helps you get a much more even finish on
your lawn second top tip using this product is when the granular mix gets near the bottom the
spreader doesn't properly agitate all the mix you can get around this by using a little bit
more material than you need so you'll always get left with a little bit in the bottom to transfer
it back to the bag or you can bump the spreader by sort of jumping it a little bit to agitate
the granules yourself but I generally lean more toward overfilling as It'll give you a more even
finish the last step of this process I always like to brush down any of the patio paving flags and
wash them down a little bit just in case I've got any of the granules left over from an overthrow
as these will stain the patio flags especially if they contain any extra iron you can see here
some mistakes that have made in the past I always start with brushing down and I'm just hosing it
off really just to remove some of the other debris that's on the flags I'm also going to hose down
the sprayer to clean out ready for next time and again I don't really want to be doing this over
the flags just as a bit of an experiment I did one stripe with the fertiliser and left it for about
a week and you can see everything to the right of my fingers there it's really greened up and gone a
lot faster in terms of its growth then everything that hasn't had the line of fertiliser on you can
also see there where I'm zooming in now which is where I got that overthrow from starting the
spreader from a standing start so it's really key to get a bit of movement on that and avoid that
fertiliser burn you can see there I'm not sure how well it's showing on camera but in real life
you can really see a visual greening of that lawn and the fertilisers really done its job if you're
interested in the fertiliser or the spreader I've left links in the description below and in the
meantime why not check out some of my suggested videos and take your DIY lawn care to the next
level I'll also be doing a follow up video on how the fertiliser has greened up the rest of the lawn
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