Ortho Dial N Spray Hose End Sprayer

Why it's worth it

The Dial N Spray covers 14 dilution settings, from a teaspoon up to 8 ounces per gallon, so it handles nearly any liquid concentrate label you'll run into. It's light, the collar is easy to read, and it's the sprayer most people already reach for.

The dial is the whole reason to buy this one. Fourteen settings run from a teaspoon to 8 ounces per gallon, which covers the label rates on nearly every residential liquid fertilizer sold. Lawn Love's roundup found that sprayers with eight or more settings handle over 90 percent of residential labels without any math on your part. You read the bottle, turn the collar to the matching number, and go.

Picture a Saturday morning, a jug of liquid iron, and 4,000 square feet of turf. You pour concentrate straight into the jar, thread the sprayer onto the hose, and cover the lawn in one pass. No bucket, no measuring cup, no pump to re-pressurize every few minutes. That's the practical case for a hose-end sprayer, and this one makes it about as painless as it gets.

From our review of 5 hose-end sprayers for lawn fertilizer, by Genevieve Dubois, Home & Living Expert

What we like

• +The dial is the whole reason to buy this one
• +Picture a Saturday morning, a jug of liquid iron, and 4,000 square feet of turf
• +Three spray patterns sound like marketing, and mostly they are
• +Owners keep coming back to this one season after season

What to know

• –Leaks are the common complaint
• –It's plastic, and it acts like it