Sprayers for Garden Spraying

Many older fashioned insecticides and fungicides are now banned by EU regulation but a sprayer is still a gardeners friend.
An old flit gun like the one above will not improver the efficacy of your spraying but it will be a pleasure to use on pesky insects and bacteria.
I happily use a spray gun for foliar feeding my plants.

Features of a Good Sprayer

• A good sprayer need to have a fine and adjustable nozzel to regulate the amount of fluid distributed. A good arrangement will range from a pencil jet to a wide spray.
• A lance to direct the spray to the underside of leaves is a boon.
• Modern sprayers have a safety valve so you can’t over pressurise the container.
• The sprayer needs to be easy to clean as you do not want a build up of chemicals from one spray to the next.
• Graduated filling marks help to achive accurate mixing.
• A lockable trigger maintains the spray for prolonged use.
• As liquids can be heavy I would opt for a carrying harness if I was buying a larger capacity sprayer.
• Hand held sprayers are fine for indoors and small areas.

this Hozelock Killaspray has a 3 litre Net Capacity leaving 2 litres for building the pressure. It costs about £22 from amazon