Let’s talk about fall landscaping updates! Some people don’t realize that fall is a great time to get some landscaping tasks done! Cleaning up your yard before winter and getting ahead on some tasks can establish new growth for the spring. It’s the perfect season to make a few updates to your home, lawn, and landscape! The more you do now, the better your yard will look in the spring, so why not get a head start? Fall provides cooler weather for plants you might be planting and the cooler weather can be a plus to work in for many people. If you aren’t sure what updates and changes you want to make this fall, read our blog today to get inspired.
Planting Trees
Did you know that the fall season can be one of the best times to plant trees? Especially evergreen trees! Evergreens can add so much to a home’s landscape – they give a consistent pop of cool color to your home no matter what season it is. They also serve many other practical purposes, you can use multiple evergreens to form a wall between you and your neighbor, you could also use multiple to block off your house from the road or, depending on where you live, they can form a natural dust barrier. There are lots of benefits to adding in evergreens to your landscape, and like we said before, fall is one of the best times to plant them. Evergreens bud and produce new growth in the late spring and summer time and it’s important to either plant them before or after that new growth has begun. If you dig up and replant trees during that period of growth, your trees can experience unnecessary stress and possibly even not make it. Planting in fall allows the trees to produce and stabilize their new growth before being shocked into a new location. Not only that, but the fall time requires less water to keep your trees alive, the cooler weather holds the moisture in the soil and allows your trees to thrive, even as winter sets in.
Apply Weed Control to Lawn & Landscape
Fall is also a great time to be proactive with your weed control for spring. Applying both a pre- and post-emergent herbicide will help your lawn the most as it prepares for the upcoming winter and spring. A pre-emergent herbicide will help kill anything weeds that have not come up yet, while a post-emergent will target anything that has already shot up. This should also help set your lawn up for success in the upcoming spring! If your weeds are treated properly in the fall time, it gives your lawn the best chance to grow healthy and without interruption before the winter which then allows your lawn the thrive in the best way after the snow disappears. If you have a more traditional landscape with shrubs and wood mulch around your home, you should also consider applying a weed herbicide to kill of any established weeds that might be invading your landscape.
