Home Improvement

Most people do not think fall as a time for planting new landscaping and garden plants. For most, it’s time to put garden to bed business until the spring. Although it may not seem so, fall planting of trees, shrubs, perennials, lights, and cool weather grasses like Fescue is a very good idea. The roots of newly planted plants and trees can continue to grow and become established in the lowest temperature of 40 degrees. And because the roots do not have to provide the remaining plants with energy to grow, more energy is focused on root production. Come spring, because the root system established, the plants shoot out of the soil with plenty of energy for growth above.

Soil Temperature

Planting in the fall, soil temperatures are still warm from the long summer. Warmer soil temperatures encourage root growth. In the spring, the soil is still cold of winter and the roots are very slow to become established. Even if you grow plants from seeds indoors and transplant outside when the temperatures warm, the new shoots still do not have the advantage of fall planted crops.

When Exactly Is Falling?

Autumn officially begins with the equinox in late September. However, fall weather varies considerably from one state to the front. Basically, the best period for planting fall is about six weeks before the first hard frost in your area. Just keep in mind that roots need to have time to become established before winter sets in.

Autumn Bloomers

Fall is not just time to put garden to bed and start getting ready for spring. Growing season is not quite over yet. You can add color and new life to the park to replace the dying summer seasonal or perennial with autumn flowering plants such as pansies, Chrysanthemum, and Ornamental Cabbage and Kale, marigold, and others.

It’s also time to plant spring flowering bulbs as well as the eternal divide.