Current methods of applying granular fertilizer typically takes place by three means:
1) Hand Spreading- Taking a handful of fertilizer and “throwing it to the wind.”
2) Broadcasting.
3) Drop Spreading.
CURRENT METHODS
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Both Broadcast and currently available Drop Spreaders are categorized as volume spreaders. If one wants a plush green lawn, they are the most efficient. However, both fail miserably in the garden as well as the landscaping setting with respect to efficiency of application as they are incapable of targeting the individual plant; both feed the weeds as well as the desirable plants.
Current methods of hand spreading are the least desirable. In addition to being terribly inefficient, it has the potential to expose the person applying the fertilizer (as well as bystanders) to the effects of windblown fertilizer dust as well as absorption through contact with the skin.
NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD USING THE SPOTDROPFERTILIZERAPPLICATOR
By way of a precision Metering Screw / Auger and the single dispensing orifice, the current invention is capable of applying a precise and repeatable amount of fertilizing agent right where it is needed!
With the development of the spotdropfertilizerapplicator, it is now possible to apply (drop) fertilizer in a quick, accurate, and controlled manner as shown below. Furthermore, using the new method of application, it is now possible to "reach underneath" foliage negating the need to get on your "hands and knees."
THE FERTILIZER DISPENSER APPARATUS-
Used in a Landscaping environment, the apparatus is capable of applying fertilizer in those hard-to-reach areas such as under the foliage of shrubbery or other plants with low hanging leaves or appendages.
Incorporated in big agricultural planters, a new level of efficiency is achieved!
Current Method used to apply granular fertilizer.
The first image below (left) depicts a common method of application (in addition to simply using one's hand). Although this method of application is rather crude, inaccurate and inefficient, it is also hard on the back as it requires one to reach toward ground level. The second image (below right) was taken from a bag of commercially available garden fertilizer. The depiction illustrates the proper density in which this particular granulated fertilizer is to be applied (dropped), it makes no mention as how to accomplish said deposition....
Additionally, by using a gearmotor with encoder and incorporating the appropriate electronics / processor, one is able to monitor the rate of dispense digitally as well as log usage totals.