Should You Seed Landscape during Fall or Spring?

| Friday, October 26, 2012
By James Auston


Have you ever wondered whether you'll want to be doing landscape planting for your trees, perennials, grass and other plants in the spring or the fall time? Most people don't think about this. In fact, the most frequent thing our landscaping company hear from our clients when it comes to planting is "we are going to just wait until spring season to plant."

The fact of the matter is that autumn is the absolute best time to lay your sod and do all your landscaping. The drought of 2012 showed the importance of fall landscape planting more than any other year we have seen in a very long while.

2012 was incredibly severe for landscaping as a whole. Some have called it the year "Landscaping Apocalypse." We seen landscape clients who were very committed to watering their landscaping and performing what is required to help keep everything alive lose a lot of the plants. Even the really devoted landscaping enthusiasts ending up having a lot of the landscape perish.

It was the springtime rooted landscaping that was taking the hardest hit. Customers that had planted during the fall in contrast didn't have any difficulties with keeping their landscape surviving. So you want to know the reason why? .

Planting in the fall time enables all of your landscaping to develop a powerful root system. Having a strong and penetrating root system is vital for your landscaping to flourish. If your landscaping has a superficial root system it will be striving in the heat to get the water it needs to survive.

Bare in mind, the 2012 drought we experienced had been a rare heat spell. We don't want you to live in fear that if you don't plant during the autumn of 2012 your 2013 landscape will absolutely perish. Should we have a good year you will likely be fine. The apocalyptic amount of heat we all have encountered this season has proven the truth that planting your landscape during the autumn generates very secure plants.

Think about how well your autumn planted landscape will do if we do have a really good year in 2013. If you want less servicing and watering, making sure your plants have deep root systems will allow the water in the dirt to execute a lot of work for you.

In conclusion, the regular misunderstanding that spring planting is the best way to go is simply not true. If you would like a healthier landscape at the house for the spring and summer pre-winter planting is the approach to take. In addition, you will only need to do half of the work maintaining and watering your lawn the following spring and summer. It really is a win win scenario for everyone.




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