This one is trickier because it partly depends on how you want to do it. I never follow spreader settings on any bag, I never have for years. I always set my spreader down to the slowest setting that actually releases the product. Then I notch it up slightly and go over that lawn in multiple passes, sometimes 3-4 until it's all out. If you don't like that idea then fallow the bag rate setting but adjust your passes. For instance in this video bag rate told me 3lb of product per 1k with setting 4 on my Scott's spreader. Since I wanted to put 9lbs out that means I'd do setting 4 with my application per bag instructions and then do three passes over the lawn to get all 9 lbs of product down. After making many different applications you start to see and feel the correct setting too. That comes with time. For this application I guessed almost exactly correct and applied everything evenly on a single pass with nothing extra left. It was a perfect application but that only comes with time and experience.
At that point you could fall back on the bag rate, the more you do it though you might start getting a feel for what you want to do and this is a simple way to start
Hey, new subscriber to your channel.. my 2nd comment though,lol.. My favorite lawn channel without a doubt. You help me learn. I can't watch the video till later, but how do I decide what kind of fertilizer to purchase. I have a VERY small front yard. I simply want to go to home depot and purchase a bag of something as I know you NEED to fertilize your lawn.. Thanks for any feedback you can provide! :)
Dont say simple math. Have you not seen vids of guy asking college students simple math problems, & they cant do it. Young generation was raised by their phone, they cant do simple math.
Lol, luckily my core audience on this channel is between 35 and 65, I trust human adults to be able to comprehend this stuff. 😬 When my son starts mowing his own lawn 10 years from now I'll have to make an app for it and describe long division in the video. 🤣
Still seems like a convoluted way. This is the most simple way I have found. Divide 8(the percentage of N in this product) into 100. 100/8=12.5. You need 12.5 lbs. Per 1000 sq. ft to get 1 lb. of nitrogen per sq. foot. If you want .75 lb. just multiply 12.5x.75. 12.5x.75=9.56. 9.5 lbs. Of this product per 1000 sq. ft. to get .75 lbs. of N.
Very helpful calculation. I hadn’t seen it put that way before.
Woot! 50K Subscribers! Way to go Turf Mechanic.
He should have more though.. Some of these people are a tough watch/listen. and they have ike twice as many subscribers.
sidewalk strip is looking good after that iron boost app!
How do you calculate the correct spreader setting?
This one is trickier because it partly depends on how you want to do it. I never follow spreader settings on any bag, I never have for years. I always set my spreader down to the slowest setting that actually releases the product. Then I notch it up slightly and go over that lawn in multiple passes, sometimes 3-4 until it's all out. If you don't like that idea then fallow the bag rate setting but adjust your passes. For instance in this video bag rate told me 3lb of product per 1k with setting 4 on my Scott's spreader. Since I wanted to put 9lbs out that means I'd do setting 4 with my application per bag instructions and then do three passes over the lawn to get all 9 lbs of product down. After making many different applications you start to see and feel the correct setting too. That comes with time. For this application I guessed almost exactly correct and applied everything evenly on a single pass with nothing extra left. It was a perfect application but that only comes with time and experience.
Thanks for the spreadsheet!
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What if we don't know how much N we want to put down?
At that point you could fall back on the bag rate, the more you do it though you might start getting a feel for what you want to do and this is a simple way to start
Hey, new subscriber to your channel.. my 2nd comment though,lol.. My favorite lawn channel without a doubt. You help me learn. I can't watch the video till later, but how do I decide what kind of fertilizer to purchase. I have a VERY small front yard. I simply want to go to home depot and purchase a bag of something as I know you NEED to fertilize your lawn.. Thanks for any feedback you can provide! :)
Dont say simple math. Have you not seen vids of guy asking college students simple math problems, & they cant do it. Young generation was raised by their phone, they cant do simple math.
Lol, luckily my core audience on this channel is between 35 and 65, I trust human adults to be able to comprehend this stuff. 😬 When my son starts mowing his own lawn 10 years from now I'll have to make an app for it and describe long division in the video. 🤣
Still seems like a convoluted way. This is the most simple way I have found.
Divide 8(the percentage of N in this product) into 100. 100/8=12.5.
You need 12.5 lbs. Per 1000 sq. ft to get 1 lb. of nitrogen per sq. foot.
If you want .75 lb. just multiply 12.5x.75.
12.5x.75=9.56. 9.5 lbs. Of this product per 1000 sq. ft. to get .75 lbs. of N.
That's definitely another good way to do the math. Thanks for sharing, it may resonate better with some viewers out there.
Hope it helps someone. I struggled with application rates until I discovered this simple math.