Rob Barrett wrote:
I recently fed my lawn with a soluble lawn feed that said to put half
a sachet in a watering can with 2 gallons of water and spread over 20
sq meters. Things did not go perfectly.

First off, this seems to be a very light covering, so it was difficult
to move quickly enough to avoid exhausting the 2 gallons well before
covering 20 sq meters. I had hoped to go over the area twice, in
perpendicular directions, to get even coverage, but that just wouldn't
work. I only managed to go in one direction.

The end result was that I have a fairly striped lawn now of
alternating yellowish and lush greenish lawn. My guess is that the
yellowish got very little feed (it looks pretty much like it did
before the feed, though admittedly it's hard to know). But could it
have gotten too much and be slightly burned? How can I tell the
difference?
I was thinking of mixing a more dilute batch and going back over the
yellowish stripes.

What should I do to avoid this problem next time? More dilute? Invest in
a spray attachment for the hose? Switch to a dry feed like
Growmore?


If your watering can is delivering more than 2 gallons per 20sq metres than
you should try sealing some of the holes up on the rose, try insulation
tape.
Also have you measured your lawn? - is it 20sq metres?