EverGreen 400sqm Complete 4-in-1 Lawn Care, Lawn Food, Weed and Moss Killer Bag

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In terms of capacity I have laid in easily a good couple of kilo of seed, maybe even two! – reloading every few minutes doesn’t feel a burden at all when you’re covering so much ground: For smaller gardens, this Vitax Green Up Liquid Lawn Feed works well to ‘green up’ the lawn whilst eliminating smaller weeds. You might be wondering just how essential a lawn feed actually is. After all, grass should get plenty of nutrients naturally from the soil, right?

There are a few reasons why a lawn feed product might not work for you, including incorrect application, poor product quality, and insufficient soil pH. Using a liquid autumn feed with a built-in sprayer is much faster and easier than diluting the feed in a watering can. You just attach your hose end to the nozzle, then twist the cog on the side of the nozzle. This will send water through the nozzle, which will dilute the lawn feed as it sprays onto your lawn. Please be aware that the battery and charger don’t come with the feeder as standard, and you will have to pay extra for them, quite a bit extra actually, and that is the biggest flaw of the Einhell Power X-change feeder. It’s an excellent product and gives you a really even and uniform spread. It is also very easy to use and requires no physical shaking or turning of handles either. However, it is quite expensive when you compare it to other handheld lawn feed spreaders, and I think that unless you have money to burn, or you plan on using more tools from the same range, the price might put you off. I think the plastic wheels do a good job of keeping the lawn feed spreader rolling along. I would have preferred to see pneumatic wheels but I know that that would have almost certainly increased the price, so I get why Scotts chose what they did. We found it easy to use the spreader – the nozzle spout did a good job of evenly distributing the feed on the ground, and the built-in handle was comfortable to hold in one hand. You can see the feed on your lawn, so it’s easy to identify which areas you’ve covered already.Anyone looking for the best-value lawn feed that’s suitable for use throughout most of the year and reliably produces the best results on UK lawns. There also doesn’t seem to be that much difference between the four different spread settings. I mean, there is some difference, but not enough to make it really worth having it there in the first place. This last point is referred to by Miracle-Gro as their ‘WaterSmart’ formula – it encourages the absorption of water and nutrients into the grass which can help protect it from drought and general stresses resulting from poor conditions.

Ultimately, the best choice for you depends on your specific lawn needs, as well as your gardening philosophy and environmental concerns. Generally speaking, if something like a handle is too straight, and without any curvature, it tends to be a bad sign. Of course, handlebars are an exception to this, but for handheld spreaders, this is something to look out for.Of course, the correct setting will depend on a lot of different factors, including your stride length, so there will likely be a certain amount of trial-and-error when you first start using your spreader.

Ideally, you want to find the perfect balance between ‘as few refills as possible’ and ‘maintaining manoeuvrability’. This will depend on the size of your lawn and the density of product that you want to spread. Where Gardena has lived up to their name is with the overall build quality of this lawn feed spreader, which is excellent. Watering the grass is still recommended before application, to further encourage even distribution. There’s no specific NPK ratio mentioned for this fertiliser, but the bottle says that there’s 20.8 g/l of nitrogen and 124 g/l of potassium as “contents soluble in water”. The high potassium content is ideal for an autumn feed because it helps harden and strengthen grass, building its resistance – essential over autumn and winter, when it’s more vulnerable and susceptible to disease. Holding this spreader for extended periods isn’t a chore as it only weighs around 550 grams, and even when the hopper is filled to its 3 litre capacity, it is hardly what you would call heavy.

However, what this ultimately means is that there are plenty of settings to choose from – you just need to get the hang of them, There are various apertures as well as a wide spreading width that’s adjustable between 1.2 m and 3.4 m. Instead, a lawn fertiliser for autumn has higher percentages of potassium and phosphorous, which are ideal for feeding into your lawn in the autumn season because they encourage root growth and disease resistance. Another variation of the rotary type is the handheld spreader. These are lightweight, low cost, and very easy to use, and if you only have a small space to cover, they can be a great tool to use. recently, there have been battery-operated handheld lawn feed spreaders coming onto the market, like the Einhell GE-US Power X-Change Lawn Feed Spreader , and when compared to the standard handheld spreaders, they take much less physical effort to use. You will have to pay extra for that privilege though. Variable controls You’ll have a lot more control with a drop spreader, but it will take you longer to spread seeds or fertiliser across a whole area.

The formula contains no phosphorus, and has an NK ratio of 14-5 meaning it’s high in nitrogen, with a reasonable amount of potassium too. Walking at a fairly spritely pace of 1 metre per second seems to be considered the optimal, so you can consider this your cardio workout for the day as well. Specification: Spreading width: 45 cm , Capacity: N/A , Recommended lawn area: least 100 m² , When to use: March to NovemberRead on below and our buyer’s guide will try to provide the answers to these questions and more. Comparing the types of lawn feed spreader The fertiliser is a winning blend of nitrogen, which promotes grass greenness, phosphate, which encourages strong root growth, potash, which improves disease and drought resistance, and iron, which stimulates chlorophyll production. The construction is a mix of metal and plastic, with plastic wheels and tank fixed onto metal handles. The handles can be folded down for storage purposes but unfortunately, the height of them can’t be adjusted. Having said that, they come up about a metre tall, so it’s not like they are overly short to begin with. Anyone with a smaller budget who prefers to spend less upfront on a lawn feed that’s as effective as products twice its price.