Sunday, November 11, 2012

Wonder if You Should Plant Landscape during Autumn or Springtime?


By Mark Murphey

Have you thought about whether you'll want to be doing your landscape planting for your bushes, perennials, turf and other plants in the springtime or the fall? Most of the people don't even think about this. A lot of people wait around for early spring to return to get the landscaping started.

Planting the landscape in the fall is the best. This current heat that we have faced this year has shown that.

2012 proved to be extremely nasty for landscaping in its entirety. Many are calling the year "The Landscape Apocalypse." There was a lot of plant death for many of our landscape clients. Even the extremely determined landscaping lovers came into fall having a large amount of their landscape die.

A very important factor that everyone did see is that all of the landscaping which had been dying had been landscaping that was planted during spring. Customers which had planted in the fall however didn't have any issues with keeping the landscape living. There is actually a rather simple reason why this is.

You'll need a strong root system for the landscaping and autumn planting does just that. If you would like your landscaping to thrive and look great, a deeply rooted root system is a must. The thing is, the deeper your root system goes into your ground, the more water there is. Landscaping with superficial root systems will likely have trouble staying alive during the burning summers.

Don't live in fear that if you do not setup our landscaping during the fall of This year the 2013 landscaping will die. An excellent season can do wonders for springtime rooted landscapes. The crazy high level of heat we all have encountered this year has shown the fact that landscaping during the fall generates very secure plants.

Just imagine how good your fall planted landscaping will perform if we do have an outstanding 2013. With that said, if you invest in your landscaping now prior to the winter months, you will have a good deal less required maintenance and plant watering next spring and summer since the deep soil moisture content will be accomplishing a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

It's simply not the case that planting your landscape in the springtime is the best season to do your landscaping. If you want a much healthier landscape at the home for the summer pre-winter planting is the best option. Furthermore, you will probably only need to do half of the work maintaining and sprinkling your turf that subsequent summer. It's always a win win circumstance for everybody.




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