Fertilising paddocks without machinery

Penny Less

Penny Less

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We have been unable to get someone to spread fertiliser on our paddocks with tractor etc, and so have decided to try and do it ourselves! Has anyone done this and what did you use to chuck the fertiliser granules about. We have small half acre paddocks.
 
I did it by hand but used gloves didnt take too long at all. Used barrow and threw it all about you frome left then right and in front and behind, could see odd patch where I missed but it still grew and worked.
 
I have a towable small spreader that I bought off ebay which is great as mine are quite big and I can tow it behind the car it takes a whole sack of fertilizer, I do have in the shed somewhere a push along one that takes a bucketful at a time I don't know where you are but PM me if you are interested. You can buy smaller ones at garden centres but they are for lawns and don't take much so you are forever filling them.
 
I am in Kent, someone did say they thought you could get a spreader thingy that went on a wheelbarrow but wondered if it would not be economical as we wont probably fertilise very often, lack of funds ! I did think that perhaps Icould get someone to drive my car up and down the fields and I could chuck the stuff out of the back but thought perhaps it would all go in one chunk, been trying to invent something to spread it. Bit cross as we have been promised that it would be done for us but chappie has let us down.
 
In the past we did our 2acre field by hand out of a wheelbarrow. Between two of us it only took an afternoon & the grass came back brilliantly. My only advice is wear good thick gloves, we wore latex gloves & the fertiliser was reacting with them really badly!
 
I do mine with a sieve :-D......I just walk up and down shaking it! It doesnt take too long really....I think about an hour and acre.....
 
i cant remember the last time i chucked fert about by hand, very time consuming and boring, plus you always miss bits!! Id recommed good gloves, just loading it into the spreader out of bags i get a bit of dust on my hands and if i got any cuts etc it dont half sting!!!!!
 
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