Sunday 30 December 2012

Should You Plant In The Spring Or Fall?

By James Truman


Have you ever wondered whether you ought to be doing your landscape planting for your trees, perennials, turf as well as other plants in the springtime or the fall? Many people don't even think about it. Actually, the most common thing we hear from our customers when it comes to planting is "we'll just wait until spring to plant." It is a really common misconception.

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

This year turned out to be incredibly nasty for landscaping in general. A lot of people are calling the year "The Landscaping Apocalypse." We've observed landscape customers who were very committed to watering their landscaping and performing what it takes to help keep everything alive end up losing a lot of the landscaping. Sad to say, the tough summer months of This year ended up killing a lot of landscaping for even extremely committed house owners.

A very important factor that we did observe is the fact that all of the landscaping that was dying was landscaping which had been planted in the springtime. Customers that had planted within the fall time however had zero issues with keeping their landscape alive. So you want to understand why that is? Let's talk about it.

Planting during the fall time permits the landscaping to develop a strong root system. Making sure you have a solid and penetrating root system will be essential for your landscaping to flourish. The truth is, the further your root system goes into your soil, the more water there is. If the landscaping only has a trivial root system it's going to be striving in the heat to get the water it needs to make it through.

Putting together their landscaping in spring does not mean your landscaping will perish though. Should we have a good year you will probably be okay. Nonetheless, this does give undeniable evidence to the power of fall landscaping.

Here is a question though, if autumn planted landscaping managed to make it through the drought, how good will autumn landscaping perform within a year of flourishing? On that note, if you invest in the landscaping now just before winter, you will find a good deal less required servicing and plant watering next spring and summer because the deep soil water is going to be undertaking most of the hard work for you.

In conclusion, the regular misunderstanding that spring landscape planting is the best approach to take just isn't accurate. If you would like a much healthier landscape at the house for the spring and summer pre-winter landscape planting is the best option. And it is always a big plus to not be required to water and do landscape upkeep as much as you should with spring season planting.




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