Wonder if You Should Plant Landscape in the Autumn or Spring?

| Monday, October 29, 2012
By Adam Phillips


Ever wonder whether you need to be doing landscape planting for your trees, perennials, grass and various other plants in the spring or the fall? Most of the people don't think about this. Actually, the most typical thing our landscaping company hear from our clientele when it comes to planting is "we are going to hold off until spring to plant."

The fact of the subject is that fall season is the absolute best time to lay down your sod and do all your landscaping. And the heat we have faced this year has shown that.

Some have called it the year "Landscaping Apocalypse of 2012." We observed landscape clients who had been highly committed to watering their landscaping and undertaking what must be done to keep everything living lose a lot of the plants. Even the heavily determined landscaping enthusiasts ended the season seeing a lot of the landscaping die.

One thing that everyone did watch is that all the landscaping which had been dying was landscaping that was planted in the spring. Clients which had planted within the fall conversely didn't have any issues with keeping their landscape alive. There is a quite simple answer why this is.

Planting in the autumn permits all of your landscaping to build a powerful root system. Getting a solid and penetrating root system is vital for the landscaping to flourish. If your landscaping only has a trivial root system it will be striving in the high temperatures to get the water it needs to endure.

However, the 2012 Landscaping Apocalypse our landscaping experienced was a rare heat spell. Don't be terrified that if you do not plant in the autumn of 2012 your 2013 landscaping will absolutely die. A great season can end up doing wonders for spring rooted landscapes. Nevertheless, this year does offer testimony to the force of fall landscape planting.

Think about how good your falltime planted landscape will perform if we do have a really good year in 2013. If you would like a smaller amount upkeep and watering, making sure the plants have deep root systems will permit the water in the soil to do a lot of work for you.

In conclusion, the more common misconception that spring landscape planting is the best way to go just isn't legitimate. Plus, you will likely only have to do half of heavy lifting maintaining and watering the landscaping that subsequent summer and spring.




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