How to Spread Fine Turf Evenly????

Are you holding the bottle high enough off the layout - I find about 2' works well for me.

Besides, nothing comes out even with mother nature anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 

I use a flour sieve

Don't use your wife's sieve. Buy your own. I found out the hard way

Richie C. posted:

Besides, nothing comes out even with mother nature anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 

Exactly so, unless you're modeling parts of a golf course.

mwb posted:

Richie C. posted:

Besides, nothing comes out even with mother nature anyway, so I wouldn't worry about it. 

Exactly so, unless you're modeling parts of a golf course.

Hah - you must be playing better courses than me !

I use the bottles of groundcovers, of miniature soils as well as of various foliage, as a reservoir, which I hold upright in one hand. Then,  with the other hand I dip inside with a long-handled teaspoon, sprinkling bit-by-bit as I wish it to be, sometimes heavily, or in more than one pass, and sometimes only once. I often apply a variety of soil and foliage textures and sizes......to the same scene.

I hope this is helpful, Ed.

FrankM

Now, I don't feel so bad.  I did caddy as a teenager, but, only the greens looked really manicured.

I have created the rough and tumble look but by accident, not design.

Thanks for the pix and the reality check.

Ed

Pair of panty hose stretched out over the top of the container and held on with a rubber band could possibly work depending on the size of the ground cover you are spreading.  I have had luck in being able to better control portions using this method.