Ken Weitzel wrote:
Dave Gower wrote:
I have a Scotts rotary fertilizer spreader model 1000, which I bought
several years ago but haven't used much. This fall I decided to give my lawn
a fall fertilization for the first time, so I bought a bag of Scotts' Turf
Builder Pro 31-3-8. It said it covered 9600 square feet, and since my lawn
is less than 8000 square feet I bought one 28 lb bag.

On the bag it said to set my spreader to 3 1/2, which I did. The problem was
that it only covered 1/3 the lawn before it was all gone. I hope that
doesn't mean I burnt the lawn, and I also can't think of what I could have
done wrong. I was careful to spread it according to directions (about 4-5
feet between each spread, which is certainly the width of the throw).

I guess I won't buy more now, since I won't be able to remember where I left
off. So next Spring the outside part of my lawn will be either burnt or
really happy?

Dunno. But you *will* be able to remember where you left off


There are a few different models of Scotts broadcast spreaders. Are
you sure you looked at the info for the setting for the correct model?
Mine can be adjusted, so it's also possible yours is adjusted wrong.

When I'm applying anything, I keep an eye on how fast it's going down,
to make sure it is reasnable. If it was going down 3 times as fast as
it should, it should have been obvious and you could have backed off
the setting.

I'd go ahead and do the rest of the lawn. Just go lighter at the
approximate area of overlap. This is slow release, it's hard to burn
the lawn in the Fall. And if it's gonna bet burnt, it would happen
now, not next Spring.