Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Seasol/Powerfeed application amount for new turf? 10Oct 25, 2010 8:46 pm Fu Manchu I'm just glad you have the courage to post a question you perceive as silly. I think it is a great question Just think how many others haven't posted something and this may very well be one many have wondered before and been to scared to ask Yeah get the hose clicked onto the tap. Then unclick the nozzle or other watering device that maybe clicked onto the far end of the hose. On the seasol container, there is a green thing with a straw on the bottom of it. You need to take off the lid of the seasol container that comes with the twin pack. It just unscrews like any other lid. Then you take the attachment/funny looking green lid thing, shove the little straw in so the other end has the bit that is cut on an angle. The straw is cut like that to stop it getting stuck on the bottom of the container and sucking the bottom up and blocking. With the end cut on an angle it will never block So screw the funny lid on. On one end there is a bit that looks similar to the end of the thing the hose clicks onto on the garden tap. It has a rubber o-ring on it. That is where you click your garden hose onto Now when you turn it on the water shoots out across a little hole and that creates a suction through the straw and draws out the seasol and mixes it with water I hope that makes sense So how do we control the water? How do you stop it going with no trigger? Well what you want to do is to hold some extra hose in a loop behind the seasol pack. Keep that in one hand and the seasol container in the other. Kink the hose and walk over to the tap with the hose kinked in one hand. Turn on the tap, walk over to where you are going to spray the seasol and apply it by letting the kink go in your hand. Keep a bit of extra hose in your hand looped to allow yourself the ability to kink the hose again so you can stop the water Please ask me to clarify anything, and don't think it is silly. I bet you know lots of things I don't know. I was in Bunnings this morning and they now have a connection that clicks onto the seasol pack with a trigger on it. So now you connect your hose to this trigger and you can stop and start when you want. It was only $5.00 Re: Seasol/Powerfeed application amount for new turf? 11Oct 25, 2010 10:52 pm Or you can just kink the hose with no extra connections to fluff about with Re: Seasol/Powerfeed application amount for new turf? 12Oct 26, 2010 10:38 am Quote: just kink the hose Fu, if only I had thought of this. I usually get really wet when I try to take the hose off or I just have an area near the tap that gets a lot of extra love and attention. View our blog at: http://room4acubby.blogspot.com/ Re: Seasol/Powerfeed application amount for new turf? 13Oct 26, 2010 4:38 pm Quote: I was lucky to get 100 sq metres covered with two bottles and even then I think it was just enough to wet the surface of the turf. As it turns out, it is helpful if you actually read all of the words on the back of the bottle, and not just skim through it. I turned down the water pressure and was able to spread much more of the seasol/powerfeed around so that two bottles should do the 200 m2 that I need. Also picked up the 10L monster containers of each so I don't need to buy a stack of 2L bottles - note for all, work with the containers outside rather than spill it in the garage! As the lawn progresses and the seasol/powerfeed applications decrease, should I be looking to use more of it to soak in, or stick to the light application I'm getting at the moment? Re: Seasol/Powerfeed application amount for new turf? 15Oct 26, 2010 9:50 pm Fu Manchu I'm just glad you have the courage to post a question you perceive as silly. I think it is a great question Just think how many others haven't posted something and this may very well be one many have wondered before and been to scared to ask Yeah get the hose clicked onto the tap. Then unclick the nozzle or other watering device that maybe clicked onto the far end of the hose. On the seasol container, there is a green thing with a straw on the bottom of it. You need to take off the lid of the seasol container that comes with the twin pack. It just unscrews like any other lid. Then you take the attachment/funny looking green lid thing, shove the little straw in so the other end has the bit that is cut on an angle. The straw is cut like that to stop it getting stuck on the bottom of the container and sucking the bottom up and blocking. With the end cut on an angle it will never block So screw the funny lid on. On one end there is a bit that looks similar to the end of the thing the hose clicks onto on the garden tap. It has a rubber o-ring on it. That is where you click your garden hose onto Now when you turn it on the water shoots out across a little hole and that creates a suction through the straw and draws out the seasol and mixes it with water I hope that makes sense So how do we control the water? How do you stop it going with no trigger? Well what you want to do is to hold some extra hose in a loop behind the seasol pack. Keep that in one hand and the seasol container in the other. Kink the hose and walk over to the tap with the hose kinked in one hand. Turn on the tap, walk over to where you are going to spray the seasol and apply it by letting the kink go in your hand. Keep a bit of extra hose in your hand looped to allow yourself the ability to kink the hose again so you can stop the water Please ask me to clarify anything, and don't think it is silly. I bet you know lots of things I don't know. Thank you!!! I did it this afternoon and it seemed to work a treat. I did get a drop or two of the stuff on my shoes becaue of the way i was titling the bottle but all in all i'm happy with the result. Just hope the soil and turf are just as happy. Next stop- Molasses fingers crossed 10 3837 Thanks for the response! However, it's have been sorted. But for others benefit here is what we had to do. Unfortunately, it's not straightforward. BCC washed their hands… 3 7251 They using concrete or timber sleepers? Timber or steel uprights? Any drainage behind sleeper? 3 5987 |