

You can adjust as you go and find the basic setting for you to apply the product over a 1000 square feet. I have a Scotts standard spreader but do not know what setting to use. Start with a low setting and start walking your marked off area at a normal pace. Application rate for the Menards Premium fertilizer is 3.4Lbs per 1,000 sq ft. This is just a guide always calibrate spreader per the manufactures recommendation. You can calibrate this by marking off a 1000 square foot (10 x 100) area and placing the required amount of product in pounds in the spreader. SPREADER NAME 28-0-3 Weed & Feed 30-0-3 Lawn Food Spreader Not Listed - Setting Tip: Set spreader at 1/4 to 1/3 of the dial as a starting point. So if you can figure out what your walking speed is then you know anytime you apply any product that calls for so much of it per 1000 square feet, you always set your spreader on this setting. Ft.
#SCOTTS STANDARD SPREADER SETTINGS LBS PER 1000 SQ FT HOW TO#
Here are instructions on how to calibrate your spreader.Īlmost all fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, etc have treatments in amounts of so much product per 1000 square feet. Otherwise if your settings do not match up, you would want to calibrate your spreader for the product. Generic Settings for Drop Spreaders Spreader dial range 3 lbs/1,000 sq. It blows my mind how hard this is to find. What setting on the spreader would this be 2 Soil test recommendations. If this is what you meant, or those two spreaders are compatible with settings, you can use setting 2 3/4 for putting out 1.15 lbs per 1000 sq/ft, 5 1/4 for 2.3lbs per 1000 sq/ft, or 9 for putting out 4.6 lbs per 1000 sq/ft. I sent my lawn soil out for pH/chem testing, and I need to put about 2 lbs per 1000 sq ft of a fertilizer on lawn. The Taltar Xtra bag does not specifically list setting for the Scotts Speedy Green 3000, but it does list the Scotts SpeedyGreen 2000 and its spreader settings.
