Garden Sprayers Reduce Labor
For years dogs have been considered to be man’s best friend. However, I feel that a good quality garden sprayer should be considered the small gardener’s best friend. With the way the economy is (and seems to be continuing to head) and the recent resurgence into self-sufficiency, I feel that this year there will be an increase of people becoming small gardeners. Some of these people may have never gardened before. And this is where I hope to come into play and help. For those of you who want more information on gardening and lawn care be sure to check out the rest of my blog. But for now back to the garden sprayer.
Garden sprayers make treating vegetation for plant diseases and controlling pests in your garden and lawn a much easier task. This is why I decided to invest in two sprayers last summer. (I use one just for spraying weed killer, the residue of the weed killer can stay in the tank sometimes, so I don’t want to accidentally kill my wife’s prized roses). If you don't want to spend the money for two, go in with a neighbor or friend and one of ya'll's sprayers can be used just for killing weeds, and the other for fertilizer, etc.
I own a 1 gallon Solo sprayer. It is handy for spot spraying jobs. It is great for spraying over and under leaf and the pump handle doubles as a carrying handle. Which is always handy (pun intended).
I have looked at some of the commercial backpack sprayers and I think that I might get one this year as my wife’s flower garden keeps getting bigger and we are also planting a large vegetable garden this year. I won’t have to make as many trips from the garden to the house to get more water since the commercial sprayers have bigger reservoirs.
My neighbor loves borrowing my sprayer, he was pulling all his weeds by hand, and the sprayer allows him to kill more of them at the root of the problem vs. breaking his back. I keep trying to talk him into getting his own. Especially since on nice days this year I’ll be using mine more so he won’t have as many opportunities to borrow it.
Well I had better turn the computer over to my wife, she is just dying to start ordering us some seeds for this year’s growing season. I’m looking forward to the fall when we get to start eating and canning all that we are going to be working so hard to grow this spring and summer. While I’m thinking about my garden sprayer, I think I am going to go ahead and clean mine out so it is ready to go once my wife and I have all our things together for planting.
