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Gardening

NYC_SKP

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1. Those yellow sprayers will save your hand from getting tired.

Reply to NJCher (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 11:51 PM

Jul 2012

You pump them up with maybe six to ten strokes and then have pressure for several square feet of coverage, maybe two or three minutes of spraying, a LOT more than with that little bottle.

A hose end sprayer is what I use for my 1/3 acre, and requires no pumping at all.

If the substance is concentrated and water base, then it should work fine in a hose sprayer.

Good models have an adjustment for concentration, the black dial at the top:

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