Choosing a garden sprayer

Sprayer, sprayer can become an indispensable assistant in the garden and vegetable garden. The main thing is to choose the right model that will meet all your needs. Let’s talk about what garden sprayers are, what you need to pay attention to when choosing this tool.

A sprayer, a sprayer is a special, rather simple device designed to spray various solutions and apply them to the desired surface. The sprayer works simply – the liquid from the tank is mixed with air and supplied under pressure. Thanks to this, it is sprayed over a large area in the form of extremely small droplets.

Any sprayer consists of the following elements:

• Containers for liquid. This can be ordinary water, herbicides, pesticides, and other solutions. Typically, the volume of a plastic or metal container is between 1 and 25 liters. There are more, but these are already heavy devices that will have to be moved on a special cart, on wheels and even a mini-tractor..
• Air blowing mechanism.
• A handle, a gun that allows you to spray the mixture over the desired surface.

Depending on the sprayer device, it can include a pump, a diaphragm piston pump, a telescopic rod, extensions, filters, nozzles, nozzles.

Important! Sprayers can be used not only to care for plants, but also to whitewash walls, tree trunks, and to wash vehicles. So this is a very useful device that will definitely come in handy on the farm..

The simplest hand sprayer known to each of you is a transparent plastic vessel with a volume of a liter, maximum two, with a pistol grip. It is convenient for them to spray indoor plants, delicate seedlings, small flower beds. For processing large areas, of course, you have to choose a more powerful device..

All garden sprayers are divided into the following types:

• Manual pump. A simple device that differs from the sprayer described above by the presence of a pump, sometimes a telescopic hose, as well as an increased volume of the container.
• Lever. Actually, you will also have to pump the pump, but with the help of a lever.
• Knapsack. For the convenience of the owner, the container is put on the shoulders, which leaves the hands free.
• Electrical. Rechargeable and mains powered. It is clear that on the site the first option is much more functional and therefore popular.
• Gasoline.

There are also motor-sprayers in the form of a cannon on a wheeled platform. But they are usually used in the fields, on large farming areas. If you have a large plot of land, of course, you can also get this powerful, mobile, self-propelled device. But for a standard summer cottage, motorized sprayers on a mini-tractor platform are simply not needed. For large areas, fan sprayers are also designed, spraying liquid in different directions over a long distance. The volume of tanks of such a device can exceed 400 liters, and the price is about 200 thousand rubles.

The most popular brands of sprayers that are sold in our country: German Solo and Gardena, Polish Marolex and Kwazar, Chinese Grinda, British Hozelock and domestic “Zhuk”.

According to experts, a knapsack lever or pump sprayer with a volume of up to 14 liters will be enough for an ordinary summer cottage with an area of ​​6 acres. Such Polish and German models cost from 3 to 8 thousand rubles.

Gasoline sprayers are the most powerful, their price is quite high, and are used in large areas. But they can be used in the yard and on the paths as a blower for cleaning leaves and other light debris. Electric cordless sprayers are in the middle range in terms of both power and cost. The battery lasts for 2-8 hours, it takes up to 4 hours to fully charge the device.

Important! If you plan to spray large, tall trees, it is vital for you to have a telescopic boom, which should be conveniently adjustable in length. This will help treat pests even to the tops of trees without using stairs..

Craftsmen, of course, can make a sprayer with their own hands so as not to waste money and show who is the real owner here..