Here in Florida we need mulch, as the sand just lets the water drain away.................
Rake up the leaves. dead leaves act as a blanket for insects that live by eating your lawn and the leaves block the sun.
Get out there.
I mow up the leaves with my lawn tractor and collect them in the attached bags. When the bags are full, I go through the back fence and spread them on the harvested field next to my house. Of course, this only works if you have a field next door.
I bag mine with a mower and compost them with lawn clippings, food scraps and garden waste. I use the compost in our veggie garden. We have mostly clay dirt and it needs all the help it can get.
Blow leaves into the woods
I mulched mine for many years and filled the flower beds. I 100% bag now. That reminds me...my beautiful orange & red colored maple leaves are almost all down.
My pears drop !st. My mulberry leaves are still all green. They are always last to drop at my house. Lots of pine needles also to rake up.
Only if you’ve got nothing else better to do. The last time I mow our acre with lawn tractor...just before Thanksgiving...takes care of the leaves.
Leaves.....nature’s little solar collectors.
If you bag and see how much crap you are mulching into your yard you’ll realize that mulching once or twice a summer is all you need.
It just doesn’t add up.
I’ve bagged well over a hundred bushels out of my yard this year and there is no way that could be mulched. You will have to dethatch every year.
The back-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To bag, to rake;
To mulch, perchance to fertiize, there's the rub:
For in that fertilization of yard what fungus may come,
When we have mulched into this fertile soil,
Must give us pause—there's the rake
That makes calamity of so long weekend.
I live on 44 acres, lots of trees. I mow five acres surrounding my house. Of those five acres I only rake (not by hand, I use a tractor and raking equipment) one acre. The rest of the leaves get mulched or blown away by the wind.
I like to burn mine.
For 40 years I have lived in a house in a clearing in the woods. NE Ohio hardwoods. Every year the lawn is covered completely with leaves. Every year, late grass cutting with a regular power mower chops up the leaves into small pieces. Every Spring when the snow melts and the temperature turns warm, the lawn is deep green and healthy. Nary a leaf to be seen. Never raked a single Leaf and see no reason Why I ever would.
I am going to try something new this year....collecting them for my compost bins.
Previously I just let the wind blow them down the street so it was a problem for someone else.
Leave the wood chipper free for those pesky Trump sign stealers.
I usually mulch. My back yard is fine. The front has no trees and is a total mess of dead grass and some kind of fungus
Best not be one damn leaf on my beautiful racist lawn.
Best finished mulch ever.
Too many leaves for me. I have about an acre that I maintain, about half of it gets covered with leaves. I grind them up with the mower than bag them up with the mower. Empty the mower bags into a big tarp (reduces the number of visits to the woods) and haul them off to the woods to my pile. Takes a full weekend to get them all. If I leave them, it is a pain in the spring when the are wet and stuck to the ground.
I probably get 20+ tarps full, so 60 to 80 lawn mower/tractor bag empties.
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