What do you do with your leaves in the fall? Bag them? Mulch them? Just wondering.
#2
Lawnboy18
Blow them in corners of the yard and put them in yard bags. Or blow them on a tarp and dump them in the forest.
Or, collect them while mowing if there aren't too many.
Leaves put into a garden spot each year make soil dark, rich, & loamy over time, earthworms will appear over time & aerate soil, just till leaves under at beginning of spring.
Our area offers removal of the leaves for free. So what i do at all my customers houses is somehow get the leaves to the street (whether by blower or bagging with my mower). And then they come by every 1 and a half weeks or so and vacuum it up.
#5
bt3
As I posted in the other Mulch/Bag thread, I mulch 99 percent of the time. When it's wet and/or the leaf drop gets ahead of my ability to stay on top of the mulching, I am forced to mulch the leaves as best I can, and then I bag them. Most years, I am able to stay on top of the mulching so that I don't have to worry about bagging.
Our area offers removal of the leaves for free. So what i do at all my customers houses is somehow get the leaves to the street (whether by blower or bagging with my mower). And then they come by every 1 and a half weeks or so and vacuum it up.
Dang that's awesome that they Vaccume it up for free. If ours aren't in a bag they won't take them. And they will only take up to 12 bags of leaves. What state are you in?
Dang that's awesome that they Vaccume it up for free. If ours aren't in a bag they won't take them. And they will only take up to 12 bags of leaves. What state are you in?
Mulch them up with the tractor, collect them in the AgriFab tow behind sweeper and dump them all in the compost bins. Makes for good vegetables next year.
We used to collect them in bag and throw them away. But the ideal practice is to mulch them, this will ultimately increase fertility.
#11
Boobala
Everybody's gettin rid of them ?? ......... everybody I hear talkin bout leaves, rolls em and smokes em ! .. :laughing:..:laughing:
#12
7394
I mow / blow them into neighbors yard. (just kidding), I mow them into the center of the back lawn around a Maple Tree, from there we load the wagon & put them into the compost pile.
Mulch ~ raise the deck up a few notches and mow over till shredded, then blow across yard with mower, which is kind of fun. Adds nutrients to soil [nitrogen] and feeds the worms that aerate the soil.
I do a combination of blowing leaves to the woods, mulching them up and bagging them with the mower. Whenever possible I blow off the heaviest accumulations before mowing. A lot of properties in my area are 2+ acres with wooded buffers between houses.
I have 3 sycamore trees to the north of me across the street. In the fall the wind is out of the north so I get a good share of these dinner plate size leaves. Some of my neighbors rake them and load them into their pickup and haul them off to the land fill. I just mulch them into the yard. By the end of the season, the chopped up leaves may be like an inch and a half to two inches deep, but come spring they are all gone. It works for me.
