When the leaves finish falling I will use the push mower w/ bagger to collect for adding to the garden and compost next year. Bagged the leaves make a good protection around my blueberry plants. I usually have around 20 large bags of leaves and add them during the gardening season to my composter, mixed with the fresh green clippings I collect around the perimeter of the garden. The composter holds three bags of fresh cut green clippings and one bag of the leaves collected in the fall. In two weeks I have a couple of large wheelbarrows of 'weed' free mulch to put back into the garden.
The ground is so wet today, that collecting the leaves right now would be like pushing around a wet/dry vac.
“Bagged the leaves make a good protection around my blueberry plants.”
Brilliant solution! I was one of those people who would drive around taking bags of leaves from the curb for my compost piles before my trees were mature enough to put out a lot of leaves. Now with fifteen Black Walnut, six Red Oak, two White Oak and countless fruit trees, that’s no longer a problem, LOL!
Gotta love Mother Nature. She knows just what to do with anything that’s extra. No waste, no muss, no fuss. :)