Should You Plant Landscaping during Autumn or Spring?

Saturday, October 27, 2012

By Ralph Smith


Are you aware that growing your landscape in the fall is an ideal time? Most of the people don't think about this. A lot of people just wait around for early spring to come to get the landscaping started. Its a rather prevalent misunderstanding.

Planting your landscape during the fall season is best. The drought of This year showed the need for falltime landscape planting more than any other year we have witnessed in an exceedingly long time.

This year was incredibly tough for landscaping as a whole. Many have called it the year "The Landscaping Apocalypse." We have seen landscape clientele who were really committed to watering their landscape and performing what it takes to help keep every thing living end up losing lots of their landscaping. The really devoted landscaping fanatics ending up having a lot of their landscape die.

Something that everyone did observe is the fact that all the landscaping that was withering was landscaping that was planted in the spring. Clientele which had planted within the falltime conversely had zero problems with keeping their landscape alive. There is a rather simple answer why this can be.

You want a solid root system for the landscaping and falltime planting does that. If you want your landscape to thrive and look great, a deeply rooted root system is a must. If your landscaping only has a superficial root system it'll be barely surviving in the heat to get the water it must have to endure.

Don't be overly afraid that if you don't setup our landscaping during the fall of 2012 the 2013 landscape will die. If we have a great year you will likely be good. This high level of high temperature we all have experienced this year has shown the truth that landscaping in the autumn delivers very strong plants.

Here is a thought though, if autumn planted landscape managed to get through the drought, how well will autumn landscaping perform throughout a year of good weather conditions? With that said, if you invest in your landscaping right now before the winter months, you'll have a great deal less required servicing and plant watering next summer because the deep soil moisture content is going to be accomplishing a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

It's just incorrect that planting in the springtime is the ideal time of the year to do your landscaping. And it's always a major bonus to not be required to water and do landscape upkeep as much as you'll have to with spring planting. It's always a win win situation for everybody.




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