Most
customers want to put an end, as soon as possible, to the damage being
done to their lawn by the pest animal. Yard Gard is designed with optimum
ingredients and ingredient concentrations, which enables Yard
Gard to start being effective in 1 to 14 days after the product's
application and the first watering session; the duration of the
product's effectiveness will be for months.
- One to two weeks is the normal time period for the
oils and particulate ingredients to be moved downward and through the soil and
thereby in place to condition the animal to avoid the treated area.
- The type of soil in your lawn is also a
factor in the time period it take for the oils to reach the desired depths, it
could be from 1 day and up to 14 days.
- Normally, at the amount and concentration of
ingredients used in Yard Gard, it takes several months to deplete all of the
oils from inside the product pellets. But as we mentioned, many customers
want the product to act even faster.
- There is a balance between the time period it
takes to drain the oils from the pellet and the time period of the
effectiveness of the Yard Gard product.
- The product’s effectiveness can be accelerated
by increasing the amount of water being applied to the lawn after the
application of the product.
- For example: If you water your lawn daily,
instead of the two times per week as prescribed on the package and since water
is heavier than oil, water will enter the pellet and push the oils out of the
pellet and into the soil quicker, thereby increasing the concentration of the effective
oils and ingredients in the soil.
- As we mentioned above, there is a balance
between time to deplete the oils in the pellet and the time period of the effectiveness of
the product; this extra watering may somewhat shorten the life of the
effectiveness of the product, but you should still have months of
effectiveness.
- This increase of concentration of the
ingredient into the soil will condition the animal to avoid the treated area
and leave sooner.