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Plant Your Landscaping In The Fall Season

By William Smith


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.

It was the spring rooted landscaping that had been taking the toughest hit. An interesting thing is the fact that there weren't virtually any issues with people who planted during the fall season of 2011. Would you like to understand the reason why? .

Planting during the fall allows the landscaping to develop a strong root system. If you'd like your landscaping to flourish and look great, a deep root system is a must. Landscape with shallow root systems will have trouble standing up to burning summers.

Now, the 2012 drought our landscaping experienced has been a one off year of heat. Planting in the spring season doesn't mean the landscaping will absolutely perish however. A good year will do wonders for springtime planted landscaping. This crazy high amount of heat we have experienced this season has shown the fact that planting your landscape during the fall will produce very good plants.

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.

It's simply not true that planting in the spring season is the best time of the year to do your landscaping. And it's always a major bonus to not have to water and perform landscape maintenance as much as you would have to with springtime landscape planting. It's always a win win situation for all included.




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