For fertilizing lots of plants with a hose, look into a hose-end fertilizer injector. You mix concentrated fertilizer solution in a bucket, screw the injector onto the hose bib, drop the rubber tube into the concentrate bucket, turn on the water and water your plants with fertliizer sucked and diluted out of the bucket. Most of them have a 1:16 dilution ratio because there are 16 Tablespoons in a cup, and many people water vegetables and the like with 1 Tablespoon per gallon of 20-20-20. What comes out your hose is diluted 16 times.
Syphonject with 170PL Water Breaker | Dramm Lawn & Garden
DRAMM - Syphonject
I see they're now plastic. Mine is brass and I'm not getting rid of it.