Lawn fertilizer treatments are necessary to maintain the health of your grass in Northeast Georgia. However, if you are a pet owner, you have to ensure that your furry friends are kept safe while these treatments are applied to your lawn. To do that, it's important that your pets are kept indoors while your lawn care service provider visits to apply the treatments. After application, you'll have to wait for the treatment to dry before allowing your pets to use your lawn like normal again. One of the most reliable ways to ensure pet safety is to talk to your lawn care provider because they will be able to tell you when it will be safe to let your pets back outside!

Keep your pets inside during a lawn fertilizer application.

Pet waiting at the door during a lawn fertilizer treatment in Bethlehem, GA.

While your lawn is being fertilized, a good way to ensure the safety of your pets is to keep them secured indoors. Lawn fertilizers can contain ingredients that may be harmful to your pets, so you'll want to keep them inside while the treatment is being applied so that they don't accidentally ingest the treatment and get sick. Another reason to keep your pets inside during fertilizer applications is that it will allow your lawn care service providers to administer the treatment without distractions.

You should bring any water or food bowls inside during a fertilizer treatment to prevent them from being contaminated with fertilizer.

Wait until the fertilizer treatments are dry before letting your pets back out.

After the fertilizer treatment has been applied to your lawn, you need to wait for the product to dry before you let your pets out. This waiting time will allow the product to be absorbed by your lawn to yield maximum results. It depends on a few factors, like the type of treatment used and the weather on the day of application. Granular treatments can take longer to be absorbed because they have to be watered in first to be activated, while liquid treatments start to penetrate into the ground as soon as they are administered.

You could also wait a bit longer before letting your pets out after a fertilizer treatment during cloudy days. Overcast conditions will make the wait longer because the treatment cannot dry up quickly. Meanwhile, fertilizer treatments can dry quicker during warm, sunny days because the sun's heat will speed up the process.

Always Talk to Your Lawn Care Provider About Pet Safety After a Lawn Fertilization Treatment

A reliable way to keep your pets safe during a lawn fertilization treatment is to keep your communication lines with your lawn care provider open. They will have extensive knowledge about the specific fertilizer treatment that they are using and will be able to tell you how long you should wait before you let your pets out to keep them safe from the treatment. By following their instructions, you can rest easy knowing that when you do let your pets back outside, it will be safe to do so.

Give us a call today to sign up for our lawn fertilization service!

Here at Solid Green Lawn & Landscape, we offer three lawn fertilization programs for you to choose from: Basic, Premium, and Plus, all of which include fertilizer treatments that are safe for your pets once dry. We will be able to give you pet-safety instructions so that you'll know when it will be safe for you to let your pets back outside after a treatment. We offer this service to commercial and residential properties, as well as HOAs, in Bethlehem, Monroe, Winder, Statham, Hoschton, and surrounding areas in Northeast Georgia. Give us a call today at (770) 380-2009 to sign up for this service.