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I'm sure there are some excellent spreaders for greenkeepers, but as we're in and out of small gardens we just use Scotts easygreen domestic ones, and expect a couple of seasons out of them. Nice and even over about a 4' swath.
Hi Ben,
I use the Solo 9kg spreader.. very happy with it!!!you can control left , right or direct spreading. It's enclosed and fits over your shoulder. Good for both seed n fertiliser but maybe wear a mask when applying some fertilisers.
If you're only using on smaller lawns, say upto 500sqm, then I'd just get a Scotts ICL / Hand Spreader:
https://www.pitchcare.com/shop/icl-handy-green-hand-held-spreader.html
I perhaps should have mentioned the lawn in question is about an acre!
But thanks for the suggestions
Ben, we do some very large seeding jobs, many over an acre. We have a generic Chinese broadcast spreader, badged as Lawnflite, think as long as you go for one with a rod type hopper control rather than a cable and accept even the premium brands tend to throw heavier one side, mitigate by going round and round rather than up and down . Think ours was around £100 , alternatively Agri Fab do one with rod control under £200, we used one of these for years before the gearbox crashed. Hope that helps.