Saturday, 29 December 2012

Wonder if You Should Seed Landscape during the Fall Time or Springtime?

By Sue Dussiliers


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 proved to be very nasty for landscaping in general. A lot of people are calling 2012 "The Landscaping Apocalypse." We've witnessed landscaping customers who were rather committed to watering their landscape and doing what it takes to keep every thing living lose a lot of the landscaping. Sad to say, the harsh summer of This year ended up eliminating a lot of landscape for even the most committed property owners.

It turned out to be the spring planted landscape that was taking the hardest hit. An intriguing thing is that there had not been any issues with those who planted during the fall time last year. There is actually a very simple reason why this can be.

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 the spring does not mean your landscaping will die however. Should we have a very good year you'll probably be okay. Even so, this does offer undeniable evidence to the power of fall landscape planting.

Here's a question though, if fall time planted landscape made it through the drought, how well will fall landscaping perform during a year of flourishing? With that said, if you invest in your landscaping right now just before the winter months, you'll have a good deal less needed maintenance and plant watering next spring and summer since the deep soil water will be performing most of the 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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