Overall Grade: A-. Would I recommend: Absolutely.

The only place where this sprayer loses a bit of score is because of the small opening for adding mix. It's about the size of a standard bottle top. This is solved pretty easily using a funnel, but a siphon would also work just fine. The tank size is sixteen ounces (1 pint, half a quart).

The Gilmour 362 features very solid construction and a brass selection dial. It comes with its own built-in hose attachment that resembles a standard, old-fashioned hose sprayer, so there's no learning curve for use. The sprayer is light and easy to handle due to the smaller tank size.

Setting the dial is easy, with settings from 1 to 10 tablespoons (0.39% to 3.9% solution) in 1 tablespoon increments. This can be changed to 1 to 10 teaspoons (0.13% to 1.3% solution) using the included brass restriction device. The device, when not in use, mounts to the top of the sprayer and doesn't seem easy to lose, although it's quite small.

The sprayer pattern with the deflector on is fan-shaped, flat and even, with only a slight excess at the sides. The pattern is fairly tight and very sharply defined at the edges. The deflector can be rotated to any angle for spraying. With the deflector off, the single-stream flow is very strong and easily reaches 30 feet into trees.

Flow rates seem to be about 1-2 gallons per minute maximum, with a good break-up of the stream into very even coverage and finer drops than the average sprayer. The pattern more resembles a curtain of fine rain than a typical sprayer, making it very good at applying iron or any other product that would do best fully covering the plant. The lower flow rate also means less product used for full coverage.

Unlike the Chapin 6005 Wet or Dry, these are the only two pattern selections. However, I didn't find it a disadvantage at all.

Very helpful, so if you had to pick one only which would you choose as an overall best in show? (Dog Terms).

It depends, really. If I were using a lot of soil conditioner and kelp mix, the Chapin. The pattern is wider, the soaker setting lays product fast, and the tank is bigger (and doesn't have that tight neck issue).

For iron, I'll use the Gilmour. If I blanket-sprayed herbicides or whatnot, the Gilmour.

For general purpose, if I had to choose one, the Chapin. It may not be perfect for iron and herbicide, but it would work fine.

Fortunately, they're cheap enough that buying both is not a problem.

Thanks for the review, I just order one from Amazon as well.

The reviews are great, thanks Morph. I might pick up the Chapin for "entry level" soil conditioner spraying (shampoo + molasses) until I get into the BL formula.

Must resist purchase of this gilmour sparayer.....getting harder to do!

HanLawn wrote:Must resist purchase of this gilmour sparayer.....getting harder to do!

Why resist? It's cheap.

I have to make one minor update to my Chapin thread--I faced an old Ortho sprayer's filter to the bottom of the tube as I was having a bit of an issue with clogging using kelp and humates (which can be a bit on the gloopy side of things). No big deal, but something to consider.

Another use--this works well as a low-pressure power wash for the windows. I just did mine (1/2 Dawn, 1/2 water, then rinse with water) and they've dried spotlessly clean. Even the screens are back to glistening metal.

My Gilmour 362 just arrived. I just use it once to spray 3 oz of iron sulfate,
mixed with 15 oz of water. Over all I like it. I can see my pump sprayer will
get a lot less usage.

It is much faster than the pump sprayer. At 1.5 GPM, I have about 2 mins to
spray the whole front lawn. It seems much less hassle than the pump sprayer,
consider the cleaning effort afterwards.

One minor thing, it is not sprayer's fault. The craftsman garden hose is a
bit heavy to drag for a long distance. I really need to plan my route in that
2 mins. I will try a lighter garden hose next time.

I really like this new sprayer.

I hear you about the hose- I used my gilmour sprayer with the same 3/4 inch contractor hose I use to run the impact sprinkler- while it carries a ton of water at low loss, it is a heavy, stiff, user unfriendly snake of a hose! Must purchase a cheap 1/2 inch light duty throw-away hose for sprayer use and washing the car!

I actually plan routes as I have the same 3/4" hose as well. I'll also pre-drag hose so I don't have to drag it behind me or, in a pinch, wrap it over one arm and let that do the dragging instead of my sprayer hand.

I have perfect my art of using the Gilmour 362 sprayer.
I must said I really enjoy this sprayer.
I can measure, fill, spray and clean up in about 15 mins.
It is such a joy to use.
Thank you Morpheus.

Don't thank me, thank Gilmour. They produced a great sprayer.

Mom bought one, but unfortunately it arrived defective (the red stopper was off the end of the back post, and none of us could put it back on). It's being replaced, and it's the only problem I've ever heard anybody have with one so far.

Just got my sprayer today and as i was looking at it, I thought would this fit on a larger spray bottle? Sure enough it did. Now I am wondering if having a longer tube on it would effect the performance at all?

I couldn't say, but it's worth a try. For anything not requiring exact measurement, like the soil conditioner or kelp and humate mix, it doesn't matter if it's a little off.

Would it affect the iron spray the same?

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Pretty much. If you're a little more or less dilute, no huge damage. You should get a feel for that as you use it.

What bottle did you use, because I wouldn't mind doing that myself (if I can find a stem long enough somewhere, somehow).

I have a couple of Rubbermaid 32 oz spray bottles from Target that you can mix or put your own cleaners in.Spray Bottle You can just use the tube from the sprayer. Just checked the tube and it is a tad bit smaller than the tube the Gilmour came with, may have to glue it or find some tubing at lowes or TSC. It seems to screw on to any standard spray bottle you can find.

Bloody genius. 32 ounces would at least give me twice as much distance!