What is your leaf removal strategy?
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Buy a home in new development with no trees
It sucks having no mature trees for most of the year. This time of year is not one of them
It sucks having no mature trees for most of the year. This time of year is not one of them
Give my lawn guy, Efrain an extra $100 to make them all magically go away. Works flawlessly every spring.
When we actually got rain and my grass was green, I would just rake them onto the lawn and mow them in. Now that the grass is completely dried and dead because we've gotten .02" since September I'm just going to wait for them all to drop and do 2 passes and mulch them down.
I know this is more work but have you tried kind of evening out the leaf cover throughout the yard before mowing, and then doing 2 different directional passes? Or do you just have a lot of trees without much grass?
We get a ton of leaves from my neighbors maple that kind of fall into one corner of the yard. i spread them out over the rest of the yard first and then mow them.
Thanks for the info. I’m going to leave my leaves where they fall for the bugs.
If anyone is having issues with too many leaves for your yard, but you have a garden consider making leaf mold. It's basically leaf compost. Leaves can take a couple years to break down on their own, but if you mow them or break them down before piling them up, it can break them down faster. In fact, all you really need is a garbage bag to get started.
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How to Make and Use a Leaf Mold for Organic Gardening
Leaf mold is an excellent, free soil amendment. It is easy to make, simple to use, and has a huge impact on soil health.
If anyone is having issues with too many leaves for your yard, but you have a garden consider making leaf mold. It's basically leaf compost. Leaves can take a couple years to break down on their own, but if you mow them or break them down before piling them up, it can break them down faster. In fact, all you really need is a garbage bag to get started.
How to Make and Use a Leaf Mold for Organic Gardening
Leaf mold is an excellent, free soil amendment. It is easy to make, simple to use, and has a huge impact on soil health.
If you pulverize them into dust w/ a leaf-vac, this will go much much faster.
Stuff them iny truck then drive down a country road with the tailgate down.
In all seriousness our city does a thing where they charge you a flat fee to come suck them up with a shredder truck. So we (by we I mean I after the first hour when all the kids bail) rake them on a tarp and drag them to the curb. Our biggest tree got taken out by a storm this year so hopefully it doesn't take all day but we have a (previously) fully tree covered wooded lot inside the city and I end up with a pile you could hide both my car and truck in.
In all seriousness our city does a thing where they charge you a flat fee to come suck them up with a shredder truck. So we (by we I mean I after the first hour when all the kids bail) rake them on a tarp and drag them to the curb. Our biggest tree got taken out by a storm this year so hopefully it doesn't take all day but we have a (previously) fully tree covered wooded lot inside the city and I end up with a pile you could hide both my car and truck in.
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