Hi folks, can anyone suggest a good method of preventing the contents of a lawn spreader from going onto the border area, e.g. when applying grass seed, fertilizer or lawn weed/moss killer.
Is it a case of positioning your self a required distance (based on the spray diameter I would assume) from the lawn edge, is this consistent? Or are there better, more surer methods than this?
I have found I am getting a fair amount of new grass growth in my border areas , due to recent re-seeding. Also this could be quite a problem when using lawn weed killer.

"neilson" wrote in message
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Hi folks, can anyone suggest a good method of preventing the contents of
a lawn spreader from going onto the border area, e.g. when applying
grass seed, fertilizer or lawn weed/moss killer.
Is it a case of positioning your self a required distance (based on the
spray diameter I would assume) from the lawn edge, is this consistent?
Or are there better, more surer methods than this?
I have found I am getting a fair amount of new grass growth in my
border areas , due to recent re-seeding. Also this could be quite a
problem when using lawn weed killer.

Get someone to walk along the side of the lawn with a board following you as
you walk.
The board will reduce the overspray.

Works on Golf Courses so why not your lawn

neilson wrote:
Hi folks, can anyone suggest a good method of preventing the contents of
a lawn spreader from going onto the border area, e.g. when applying
grass seed, fertilizer or lawn weed/moss killer.
Is it a case of positioning your self a required distance (based on the
spray diameter I would assume) from the lawn edge, is this consistent?
Or are there better, more surer methods than this?
I have found I am getting a fair amount of new grass growth in my
border areas , due to recent re-seeding. Also this could be quite a
problem when using lawn weed killer.

A nuisance. You might stick a sheet of something on the bedward side
with gaffer tape to act as a baffle -- cardboard would do. If that
results in too thick a spread along the edges, you might even the
excess out with a broom. If you don't want to do that, all I can
suggest is the obvious experimental method, which is to do a run down
the middle and note how far out the stuff flies. I don't know how you'd
then avoid the likely problem of thinner spreading along the edges --
probably by following up with a sprinkle by hand, or by the traditional
method of shrugging one's shoulders and not caring much.

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Mike.

"neilson" wrote in message
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Hi folks, can anyone suggest a good method of preventing the contents of
a lawn spreader from going onto the border area, e.g. when applying
grass seed, fertilizer or lawn weed/moss killer.
Is it a case of positioning your self a required distance (based on the
spray diameter I would assume) from the lawn edge, is this consistent?
Or are there better, more surer methods than this?
I have found I am getting a fair amount of new grass growth in my
border areas , due to recent re-seeding. Also this could be quite a
problem when using lawn weed killer.



I had this problem when we had a large garden and used the Flymo :-(( and
the chuck out of cut grass into the borders.

Solved it by sticking canes/sticks/anything of the like around the edge and
draping same with old dust sheets, blankets, sheets of polythene etc..

Sounds like more work than it's worth, but really isn't. Doesn't take
tooooooooo long to erect/dismatle and move to the next area :-)) and that is
if you have to do it yourself and don't have someone to hold a board as
someone else has suggested :-))

Mike


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In reply to Mike ) who wrote this in
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"neilson" wrote in message
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Hi folks, can anyone suggest a good method of preventing the
contents of a lawn spreader from going onto the border area, e.g.
when applying grass seed, fertilizer or lawn weed/moss killer.
Is it a case of positioning your self a required distance (based on
the spray diameter I would assume) from the lawn edge, is this
consistent? Or are there better, more surer methods than this?
I have found I am getting a fair amount of new grass growth in my
border areas , due to recent re-seeding. Also this could be quite a
problem when using lawn weed killer.



I had this problem when we had a large garden and used the Flymo :-((
and the chuck out of cut grass into the borders.

Solved it by sticking canes/sticks/anything of the like around the
edge and draping same with old dust sheets, blankets, sheets of
polythene etc..

Sounds like more work than it's worth, but really isn't. Doesn't take
tooooooooo long to erect/dismatle and move to the next area :-)) and
that is if you have to do it yourself and don't have someone to hold
a board as someone else has suggested :-))

I think it would be a wizard idea to make a thing that goes on the front or
back of the mower which could dispense such stuff. That way it would only go
where it should, and you get a mow and a fertilise etc in one hit.

Therefore, I imagine someone has invented such a thing, as every time I
think of a wizard idea someone else has patented it and/or built it.

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