Should You Plant Landscaping during Autumn or Spring?

| Tuesday, October 30, 2012
By Alison Marianson


Ever wonder whether or not you'll want to be doing landscape planting for your bushes, perennials, grass as well as other plants in the spring or the fall season? The majority of people don't think about this. Many people just wait around for springtime to come to get the landscape 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.

Many have called it the year "The Landscaping Apocalypse." There was a whole lot of plant death for many of our landscaping clients. Even the really devoted landscaping lovers ended the season having a great deal of the landscaping 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.

Planting in the fall season permits the landscaping to develop a substantial root system. Getting a robust and penetrating root system will be essential for your landscape to flourish. The thing is, the lower your root system goes into your dirt, the more water there is. Landscaping that has trivial root systems are going to have trouble staying alive during the high heat.

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 simply not the case that planting in the spring season is the best time to do your landscaping. And it's obviously a major bonus to not have to water the yard and perform landscape upkeep as much as you should with spring season landscape planting.




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