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Pro-Tip: Squaring Off Corners

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To ensure even coverage in corners and prevent unsightly brown spots, always square off your corners. This means observing where the fertilizer is being cast ahead of you and shutting off the spreader machine before it reaches a 90-degree corner. Continue driving the machine to make the turn, then reactivate the spreader once you are aligned for the next pass. Avoid rounding off corners while the spreader is active, as this will lead to missed spots.

Goal: Ensure complete and even fertilizer coverage in corners.

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  • Power Spreader — Spreading fertilizer

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long. You'd be one tough cookie. Now, you're going to square off your corners. This means that you're going to look and see where the fertilizer is being cast ahead of you and shut the machine off before it comes to a 90° corner. You're going to continue to drive that machine and make the turn and then turn the machine back on. The benefit of doing this is that you're going to have even coverage throughout the lawn. If you cheat and round off your corners, you're going to have a clear brown spot where the fertilizer missed. Just because you're done doesn't

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