LANDZIE - The Original 24 Inch Compost and Peat Moss Spreader Roller - Top Soil, Sand, Manure, Mulch, Top Dressing Lawn and Garden Spreader

I've ordered things off amazon for over a decade and I don't think I've ever reviewed a single product until now. I ordered a Landzie spreader back in August in preparation for a lawn renovation project where I wanted something to top dress my new grass seed with peat moss. I ordered one which was towable because I have a zero turn mower and wanted to make lighter work of it. Well, my mower hitch is an oddly wide shape and unbeknownst to me while I was making my initial passes, my turns were causing the hitch to bend the hand grips on the handle downward. This bending deformed the fork for the hitch and made it so I could no longer reattach it to tow. I was dismayed, I wasn't sure if I'd done something wrong and I'd just broken my new spreader. I spread the rest of the peat moss on foot, which was harder to do pushing it around the lawn since the handles were now bent at an awkward angle. It spread extremely well, can't praise enough how well this laid out a uniform coating for my grass seed. On the one hand I was extremely happy with how it performed, but on the other I was troubled by the fact that I'd broken it while towing. I reached out to Landzie via their website and brought up the issues I'd experienced. I very quickly got a reply to my message asking if I could provide some images and go into detail, which I did. I was informed that a new handle would be shipped out to me free of charge and I received a phone call from the owner of the company to chat about the issue I'd experienced. He assured me that it wasn't my fault (I'd be perfectly willing to assume some responsibility as a newbie with this spreader) - the hand grips on the handle can detach (which I'll be doing in the future when towing) but most depictions on the Landzie site or in videos show it being towed with the hand grips still on. Andrew (the owner) admittedly had never had a need himself to detach them while towing because his hitch is a narrower shape that precludes the possibility of bending something that it's pulling. I'm not sure what Landzie's plans might be to prevent this in the future - it would probably suffice to have specific instructions noting that with oddly shaped hitches you should consider removing the hand grips so you don't damage them while turning...assuming we all read instructions thoroughly before using something, right? The solution to my problem is built in, I just didn't realize it would be a problem until after it was too late. We live in an era where it's very easy for companies to brush off things like customer service, and hide behind the mechanisms of the internet and other impersonal thing. Heck, half the time you order something online you're dealing with a monolithic organization, and any "support" you receive is buried underneath layers of chat bots or automated call center menus which lead to 45 minutes of elevator music and [ALL REPRESENTATIVES ARE CURRENTLY BUSY...] messages. I was impressed with a company of actual humans who responded promptly to my concerns and cared enough to give me a call and have a conversation about it. As I mentioned initially, the quality of this particular product is not in doubt. It did its job beautifully and my lawn renovation has been a success. When I was a kid I worked as a landscaper in the summers and fall for 7 seasons (9th grade through college), and I've top dressed my share of lawns with shovels and rakes. I would have killed to have something like this back then to turn hours of back breaking work on an acre lot into about 45 minutes breezing around the yard. It's an added bonus that not only are you getting a good product, but you're getting one that a small business is firmly standing behind and supporting. I know that sounds like a complete cliche that would usually make me groan and roll my eyes, but it's true and I would recommend this spreader and Landzie as a business any day of the week.

Work every penny. Easy to put together and super useful.

I try to take excellent care of my yard and grass. I've had a company help me with this which I've used for several years but was never 100% happy with how my grass looked. I made the decision to do everything on my own this year - mow, overseed, fertilize, grub control, etc. It was an excellent decision! I wanted to see if I could help buildup the base and health of my lawn and perhaps use less water somehow. To do this I needed a spreader and chose this model and size. I have about 1/4 acre of grass. I use this spreader to spreader soil topper material in the spring and fall. First, I mow my lawn short. Second, I overseed and then use the spreader to spread a 1/4" layer of the soil topper material. It works great!! I was worried at first that I might need the bigger/wider spreader, but the 24" works just fine! I also have other spreaders I use to fertilize and overseed. But this spreader has been the extra step I needed to care for my lawn and has been a game changer for me. The Landzie spreader is easy to use and is built very well. It's solid and I don't have to worry about it falling apart. It's well worth the price I paid to get it. My lawn has never looked so good. I should have gotten a spreader and done this years ago!

Short Story First: Bought it; tested it once; it works great; it's a good solution. I look forward to using it this fall on 4,000 square feet of overseeding. I took away one star since the two-clasp closure mechanism is too small for regular users and unlikely to survive regular service. Back Story: Bought one of these Landzie "Peat and Compost Spreaders" after being frustrated by determining how best to overseed my 30-year old New England lawn. "Overseeding" is reseeding while leaving living grass in place. New England lawns are challenged because the region has no real dirt, in the Midwest-Great Plains-West Coast sense. We have sand and rock, with some leaf humous sprinkled on for softer sleeping. The mechanical problem with overseeding is how to distribute a thin layer of something the grass will grow in, then seed the space, then top dress the area with a thin coat of peat moss to hide, protect and moisten the seeds, during germination and early re-growth. This is the first tool I've seen that sifts and distributes top dressings like soil, clumps of expired turf, and peat. It earns a big five stars from me for its design. This is a small-scale trommel screen, which gravel pit operators use to sift materials by passing them through a rotating screen. This model is small enough to use at home, big enough to hold a dozen shovel loads or two, powder coated to keep it from rusting instantly, and mechanically simple. I bought it after reading all the reviews, watching the product's sharp price fluctuations, and thinking about my hard-earned cash. I've had one opportunity to pre-test it. I liked what it did very much. My Test. Since reviewers generally like how the Landzie screener handles peat moss, I wanted to judge what it did with my lot's version of compost. I dug some non-crucial scraggly turf out of some edges of the lawn and just dropped it in the Lanzie, grass, small rocks, dried leaves, surprised worms and all. I filled it less than half full. Please see the first picture. That load and the spreader were no burden to push at all. The Lanzie sieves and spreads its contents very nicely, two feet wide. I estimate a nearly full load would cover about 30-40 linear feet, two feet wide, and about 3/16ths deep. Your results will vary of course. But this device solves my two problems with spreading mixed materials. What was left inside was just the vegetation, roots and leaves, a one-grain layer of sand on the moist roots, and some dizzy but wriggly and unharmed worms. I extracted my no-footed friends and dumped the trash in the compost pile. Please see picture two for the leftovers. The Lost Star. The clasps are more like oversized jewelry clasps than lawn-equipment connectors. The manufacturer, wherever it is (couldn't find the country of manufacture anywhere) needs to get serious about the two closure clasps. People with lawns big enough to need this device, or their service providers, work outside, have well-built hands, and they often wear gloves. And they expect their tools to be fully prepared to work hard, too. Someone in charge needs to go to some tailgating events and look at men's and women's hands there, for a quick market research solution. The builder has improved the welding and positioning of the clasps, which earned this a 1.1 release rating. But the tiny lifting latch, the little spring, the remaining protrusion height above the rotating circumference all demand one more manufacturing operation, a "dink." The Solution for Release 2.0. Adding a dink means using a stamping press to depress both sides of the area below the clasps, deep enough to provide for a more muscular clasp and retainer element. Both the wire mesh and the metal frame need to be depressed at the same time, and the halves still need to mate. The the radii of the surface curves need to be more than an inch. The test models should be tested by full-size male and female outdoors enthusiasts, some wearing gloves. I like this tool, am happy I bought this prototype, and plan to enjoy it. Let's hope I can baby it enough to keep the clasps operating all fall.

I purchased two other spreaders by different brands before buying the Lanzie. One of the brands was $40 more expensive. They were junk. Returned them and ordered this. Packaged beautifully (didn't come crushed like the others), better quality is visible and much, much simpler assembly. Very please with this product. Also roller is the same 24 inch measurement but looks thicker than the other two which I had to return. Great value for the price.

Although this only gets used once a year, it’s made well and improved over the years as I have seen from previous reviews. The handle is convertible to a tow hitch and for the size very necessary. I bought this to pull on my zero turn and have pushed it by hand in some smaller areas. It will handle more than I put in it but a combination of peat moss, top soil and grass seed, gets the job done in one pass. I used it in some bare areas as well as others. Works very well and lays down a nice even layer of anything you put in it. My yard is well over 120,000 sqft. I mow all of it but only need to work on some trouble spots. We really could have used more rain this year. Greetings from Culpeper, VA. I just hung it up today under my deck. Awesome!

Assembles in just a couple minutes. Good sturdy construction - this will stand up to a lot of use on normal terrain. The spread rate is good - not too little, not too much. I've used it with both compost and peat moss and it does well with both. The one weak point on this is the clips that hold the filler door shut are a bit fiddly and *might* not have the same durability as the rest of the spreader. If I was looking for a way to improve the product, I'd see if there was a more robust clip available that wouldn't interfere with the barrel rolling along. Now, if they could just find a way to make it refill itself, it would be perfect. Heads up, you'll be refilling it every 300-400 square feet, depending on how dry your product is (moister tends to hold together better, spread thinner, and last just a bit longer. If you have more than a few thousand square feet to tend to, you might want to get your hands on a pull behind and a tractor to pull it. For residential suburban sized lawns, however, this is perfect.

No issues.

Sehr gutes Gerät. Wir haben diese Rolle zur Ausbringung einer feinen Erdschicht nach einer Rasennachsaat benutzt. Gleichmäßiger kann man Erde nicht verteilen. Es geht damit super einfach. Die Bedienung ist ebenfalls sehr gut.

I am very pleased with this product. Sturdy. Does its job well.

Very well made and does what it says

Questo attrezzo ti semplifica la vita, nella semina del prato in autunno e primavera.

Really bad quality. All bolts rotten and safety pins missing on arrival.