What's going on everyone? Kevin here founder of Epic Gardening.com back again with your daily gardening tips podcast

Today we're talking about a product they are fertilizer spreaders and we're to talk about the different types what they are and

why you might need one in the garden. So before we get into the weeds let's understand

how they work. The basic idea is simple.

They are a garden tool that helps you take a uniform granulated material,

like a fertilizer or seed,

and spread it over a large area. They make it really easy to control the exact

amount of seed or fertilizer so you don't over or under apply it and they just save a lot of time and

that's what I'm about in the garden. I'm about saving

time and using tools that will help me do that because time is money and time is

time that I want to spend on doing the things that I want and I don't necessarily want to do it a harder way when there's no need to.

Let's talk about the types of fertilizer spreaders. There are two general categories and four different varieties. So there

are drop spreaders and there are broadcast spreaders. Those are the two general

categories. Broadcast spreaders are also known as Rotary spreaders and they are by far the most common type of spreader.

They are really good for large areas because a typical broadcast spreader will spray about three or four feet from the actual device.

And that makes your job really easy.

The way that they work is there's a hopper at the top that feeds the material to a spinning disk and on that disk there were fins that will take clumps of it and throw it out into the yard.

So that's very, very simple. The fancier ones will include directional abilities and other sorts of things to adjust the distance and calibration.

And the lower end ones are typically made out of plastic and higher end ones are typically made out of stainless steel.

Now drop spreaders are true to their name.

They usually have a large hopper similar to a broadcast spreader.

It's just a bit bigger.

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