Pro-Tip: Efficient Spreading Pattern (Vehicle as Reference)

time you run out of fertilizer. Here's a pro tip to make your life a heck of a lot easier. Always start at your vehicle and work away from it. Watch the material in the hopper. As you start to run short, turn around and work back toward the truck. That way, when you need a refill, you're back where you started from and you don't lose your place in the lawn. Instead of carrying bags of fertilizer across the lawn, you've brought the spreader back to where the fertilizer is. It's simple but efficient. The first step is to outline the property that you're working on. You're going to run this around the edges of all the hard surfaces and garden beds with the shield down and in place. This will contain the fertilizer and keep it from casting material where you just don't want it. Make a note that if you do get fertilizer on a hard surface and it activates, it can stain, leaving marks behind. That's bad. Just like I tell my kids, don't do what I do. Do what I say. Now, once you've outlined the property, it's time to do the inner field. To make sure that you get even coverage, you simply make sure that the spread of the fertilizer lands in the tire tracks of your previous pass. It's as easy as that. Here's a pro tip. If