Monday, October 29, 2012

Should You Plant Landscape during the Autumn or Springtime?

By Darlene Ericson


Are you aware that growing your landscape in the fall is an ideal time? If you just didn't realize, it's okay because most people do not. A lot of people just wait around for springtime to come to get the landscaping started. Its a rather prevalent misunderstanding.

The fact of the topic is that fall season is the best possible time to lay the turf and take care of all your landscaping. This current heat we have experienced this year has proven that.

This year was very severe for landscaping as a whole. A lot of people have called it 2012 "Landscaping Apocalypse." There seemed to be a whole lot of plant lose for a number of our landscaping clients. The really determined landscaping fanatics ended the summer seeing a lot of their landscaping die.

It was the springtime rooted landscaping that was taking the hardest hit. An interesting factor is the fact that there were not any difficulties with those who planted during the fall season last year. Do you want to discover why that is? .

Planting during the fall season permits the landscaping to build up a strong root system. Making sure you have a robust and penetrating root system will be essential for your landscaping to flourish. The truth is, the lower your root system goes into your soil, the more water there is. If the landscaping proves to have a trivial root system it'll be striving in the heat to get the water it needs to stay alive.

Putting together their landscaping during the spring does not mean your landscaping will die however. Should we have a great year you'll probably be okay. Even so, this year does offer undeniable evidence to the potential of fall landscape planting.

Here is a thought though, if falltime planted landscaping made it through the heat, how well will falltime landscaping perform during a year of amazing weather? On that note, if you make the commitment to take care of the landscaping now before the winter season, you will have a great deal less required maintenance and plant watering next summer and spring because the deep soil moisture will be accomplishing the majority of the hard work for you.

It is simply not true that putting together your landscaping in the springtime is the ideal time of the year to do your landscaping. Plus, you will only need to do half of heavy lifting maintaining and watering the turf the following year. It is a win win scenario for everybody.




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