Q: Hi is gibber900 any good for use on normal household lawns that need fertilizer as some of the lawns I mow are very deficient?
A: Yes it definitely works on lawns. I’ve even seen a lawn that was next to a house paddock sprayed with Gibber, and every time the bloke turned the tractor at the fence, a fan-shaped of overspray went onto the edge of the lawn. 2 weeks later there were big lush green half-circles visible all along that side of the lawn!
Finding the best application rate will take a bit of experimentation though. It’s applied to pasture at just 9g/hectare, so if you wanted to spray a law of say 30 x 30 metres (about one-tenth of a hectare) you’d be applying just one gram! Hard to even measure that. It won’t matter if you apply a higher rate (say 2g in that situation, instead of 1g), and you’ll get some added benefit, but applying any more that that will be a waste of money.
You can’t pre-mix Gibber into a concentrate that you then dispense into a sprayer and top up with water only as you need it. The product will lose potency if pre-mixed as a concentrate (or mixed at all, actually) for longer than a day or two. So you’re just going to have to experiment a bit until you get a system figured out that suits you and your gear. Some kind of tiny measuring spoon sounds like a good plan; something that you have determined works well at one spoon per knapsack, perhaps?
Sorry I can’t be more informative; if we were ever to market the product for lawn and garden use I think we’ll have to get a much lower concentration powder made (say 10-20% active instead of the present 90% active), to make the dispensing etc easier.
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