Our lawn is mostly bluegrass, I believe, with probably some fescue in the
mix too.

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DK


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I've done my own lawn of about 12000 sq ft for years and found the
basic Scotts Speedy Green type rotary spreaders that go for about $45
perfectly adequate. Not sure it's worth it to spend more money to do a
1/4 acre. Mine is 10 years old now and still works fine.

For spraying, I use either a 2 gallon tank type that you can fill with
water and pressurize at the same time from a garden hose (also has a
hand pump), or for bigger jobs a backpack sprayer that has a hand pump
on the side and various spray nozzles. Once you have the lawn under
control, and good turf established, all that should be needed is
occasional spot treatment for weed control. I use the small sprayer to
kill weeds in beds too. For the lawn, a 2 gallon tank full of
herbicide is enough for a couple of treatments, lasts maybe 6 weeks.

I fertilize twice. Once with pre-emergent crabgrass control/fertilizer
in Spring, then once in early Sept, again in mid Oct.

Following on from here DK, if your lawn is in good nick you may not need
to
spray it at all, or spray it only occasionally. I have very little broad
leaf or rogue grasses in my lawn and cut out most of what does appear with
a
knife. The small amounts of very difficult grasses I get rid of with a
small
amount of roundup applied to a leaf using a paint brush. This is a fairly
labour intensive method but saves on buying sprays and pumping toxins into
my soil.

I do not know your gorwing conditions or the type of grass you use. I have
a
fairly wet climate, humid summers and foggy winters with some frosts and
grow rye and fescue mixes. I find fertilising once in spring and once in
autumn is perfectly fine. 4 times ayear may be over kill. I use blood and
bone which gives me a good enough result as any synthetic fertiliser and
importantly, for me anyway, encourages the build up of soil humus which in
turn helps stimulate micro organisms, fungi, bacteria, worms etc. They
help
to keep your soil in good working order (in fact, they are essential).

rob