5 Steps to a Pet-Friendly Lawn

Concerned about your pets playing on the lawn after you fertilize and kill weeds? Do you think natural products won’t matter? Before you spray chemicals on your lawn again this year, consider these 5 Ways to Make your Lawn More Pet Friendly:

1. Plant Tall Fescue

A hearty grass that can take the abuse of animals digging and playing on it.

1. 2.   Avoid Chemical Grub Control

The chemical stays on the lawn all season long. Instead, use organic grub control made from beneficial nematodes—worms such as roundworms. Nematodes also help to reduce flea and tick populations.

1. Use Organic Fertilizers

Salt-based chemical fertilizer pellets can get lodged in the pads of dog's paws causing burns and rashes. 

1. 4.   Avoid Chemical Pre-Emergent Weed Controls

These chemicals, which you spray on before the weeds appear, remain on the lawn all summer. Instead try all-natural Corn Gluten Meal.

1. Use Natural Weed Killers

Adios Ambros is great for lawn weeds and Burnout--made of citric acid and clove oil--kills weeds in patios and mulch beds.

 For more information on organic lawn care, go to www.whygoodnature.com or Ohio State University’s Extension at http://extension.osu.edu/