{"id":7051,"date":"2015-09-21T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2015-09-10T16:41:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T20:41:26","slug":"fall-planting-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/09\/21\/fall-planting-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Lawn And Landscape Planting Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fall Chores At Biltmore Estates, Asheville, NC<\/p><\/div>\n

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New pansy planting in fall<\/p><\/div>\n

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The combination of warm soil and cool\u00a0air makes autumn\u00a0an ideal time to plant new trees, shrubs, perennials, and cool season annuals. You may want to divide certain perennials such as iris, hostas,\u00a0daylilies, and lots more. Fall weather favors root growth\u00a0which aids transplants to\u00a0recover quickly\u00a0before winter’s chill arrives.<\/p>\n

Autumn planting tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Give plants room to grow. Don’t plant trees or shrubs too close\u00a0to one another\u00a0and surrounding structures (home, garage, storage buildings, utility polls). Tall trees can\u00a0drop loads of leaves and twigs into roof\u00a0eaves. Look up! for utility lines. \u00a0Call the gas (and electric) company to locate underground lines before digging.<\/p>\n

2. Dig planting holes that are not deep and extra wide (2 -3 times circumference) to accommodate\u00a0rootballs either at or slightly above soil grade.<\/p>\n

3. Adding soil amendments and fertilizer to the planting hole is usually not necessary. A few specific shrubs and trees are exceptions. Staking trees is usually unnecessary unless planting site is very windy.<\/p>\n

4. Add 2-3 inches of organic-based mulches, such as pine straw (needles), wood chips or compost around base of newly planted landscape plants. Never pile mulch up around the trunk. The mulch layer offers insulation value; it traps in\u00a0soil heat so\u00a0shrubs and trees\u00a0quickly acclimate to their new surroundings.<\/p>\n

5. Prune\u00a0off diseased, damaged or broken branches before planting.<\/p>\n

6. Provide deer and rabbit protection if appropriate.<\/p>\n

7. Water newly set plants\u00a0the same day of planting. Do not assume that seasonal\u00a0rainfall will be adequate. In some eastern U.S. states, October and November are usually drier than normal. New evergreen shrubs should be deeply irrigated.\u00a0Overhead sprinkler may run for 3 hours (or 10 hours of drip irrigation)\u00a0every 8 to 10 days until late November – if rainfall is not plentiful.<\/p>\n

8. Complete new lawn seeding and\/or renovating by mid-October.<\/p>\n

8. Broadcast weed preventatives against early spring cool season weeds\u00a0such as\u00a0henbit, ground ivy, purslane, chickweeds, dandelions, and lots others. These weeds\u00a0grow over the winter and\u00a0spring\u00a0months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            The combination of warm soil and cool\u00a0air makes autumn\u00a0an ideal time to plant new trees, shrubs, perennials, and cool season annuals. You may want to divide certain perennials such as iris, hostas,\u00a0daylilies, and lots more. Fall weather favors root growth\u00a0which aids transplants to\u00a0recover quickly\u00a0before winter’s chill arrives. Autumn planting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[697,1016,665,9,731,1088,676,551,843,601,933,630,823,1035,113,740,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}