Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard DLX Broadcast Spreader

For overseeding a mid-to-large lawn, a broadcast spreader is the single tool that decides whether your seed goes down evenly or in stripes — and the EdgeGuard DLX is the one we point most homeowners to. It arrives mostly assembled, holds enough seed to do 15,000 sq ft in a pass, and every bag of Scotts seed and starter fertilizer prints an exact setting number right on it, so you skip the guesswork that ruins first-timers. The EdgeGuard lever is the feature that earns its keep: flip it and the right half of the spread pattern shuts off, so you can run the spreader along a driveway or flower bed without flinging seed where you'll just have to sweep it up. For a fall overseeding pass, load it at half rate and walk two perpendicular passes — north-south, then east-west — to erase the striping that a single pass always leaves. The hopper is plastic and the settings dial is not lab-precise, but for the price this is the workhorse that gets seed and starter fertilizer down uniformly, which is 80% of an even germination.