The Best Lawn and Garden Sprayers of 2021
Updated September 14, 2021
If you’re serious about caring for your lawn or garden, a sprayer is a must. Sprayers come in all shapes and sizes, but work in the same ways: you fill a tank with the liquid you want to spray—typically water mixed with concentrated insecticide, weed-killer, fertilizer, or a cleaning solution—and a pump pushes it out a nozzle so you can apply it evenly.
Picking the right sprayer for you depends on how much lawn you have to cover and how often you’ll use it. A typical 2-gallon hand sprayer will cover a few thousand square feet, but you may need to refill it a few times. A larger 4-gallon backpack sprayer is easier to carry and holds more, but it’s heavier. In either case, a battery-operated pump removes the need to keep pumping to create pressure.
We’ve used sprayers in our own homes for years, so we’ve been around the block. To find the best sprayers available right now, we dove deep into the instructions, warranty, user reviews, other recommendations online, and materials used in each kind of sprayer. That, combined with our own experience, gave us this group of the best sprayers you can buy for your lawn or garden right now.