Shan said:
Yes. I started doing it this year. I have a 15k sqft yard, so it’s too big to guess what will be proper coverage.
If I break it up into smaller chunks, it’s easier to not over apply.
I place those construction flags in my back yard (which is half your size) so I know when I roughly hit 2k sqft.
I do. I can’t just eyeball 32 pounds.
Vanya said:
I do. I can’t just eyeball 32 pounds.
Of course you can! It’s 2/3rds of a bag!
I don’t use a scale but I give it the old eye test.
Half of a 20-pound bag? Close enough for me!
I have a luggage scale. Pour it into a bucket, hook the scale, pick up the bucket, dump. I’m pretty close to a 45lb bag though so either I throw down an additional like 5 pounds where the most traffic occurs, or I hold various leftovers for my winter ‘kitchen-sink’ winterizer.
I’m way too much of a nerd to not break out the scale.
Yup, I hang a 5-gallon bucket from a luggage scale.
Dallas said:
Yup, I hang a 5-gallon bucket from a luggage scale.
And here I thought I was special.
I have Bermuda. It’s difficult to put too much fertilizer. I don’t weigh.
Finnian said:
I have Bermuda. It’s difficult to put too much fertilizer. I don’t weigh.
What do you fertilize your Bermuda with?
This is my winter rye. I always just go for Ironite for my Bermuda season. (I am in Phoenix 9a)
@Jai
Scott’s Southern. I think it’s 34-0-4 or something like that. Very heavy on nitrogen. It absolutely kills cool season grass, so I do not recommend it on rye!
I measure liquid not granular.
I measure by the cup. A red solo party cup is about 1 lb of granular fert.
No. But after seeing your lawn in the background there I’m going to start!
No, but after seeing your grass I think I will start…
Did my first few times to test my spreader. Marked off 1000 sqft and weighed out the fertilizer.
Turns out my Scott’s Edge Guard Rotary Spreader (that everyone here will tell you doesn’t work) is pretty accurate so I don’t weigh anymore.
Hell no. I dump the bag in the spreader, open the door, and walk fast.
All of the suggested amounts on the back of fertilizer bags are always super conservative anyway. I learned this once when I spilled a bunch of fertilizer in my yard. I dumped the bag in the fertilizer spreader and forgot to close the door in the bottom so when I was done filling up the spreader I noticed it was pouring out the bottom. There was a big pile in my yard. I scooped it up as best I could but in my tall St. Augustine, it was impossible to get a lot of it. The more I tried to pick up, the more it fell and settled deep into the grass. It killed a small circle of grass in my yard but for the most part, that whole area grew super fast and was a beautiful dark green all summer. That’s when I realized that my grass can actually take a hell of a lot of fertilizer. Nowadays I put about 3 times the suggested amount down and my grass loves it. Getting so detailed as to weigh the fertilizer is comically unnecessary.
Do you also hand lay every granule evenly spaced on your lawn?
Lyle said:
Do you also hand lay every granule evenly spaced on your lawn?
Did you just smoke your yard with the wrong product?
You just posted about it 