WHAT DO YOU DO WITH LEAVES IN THE FALL?

[djdicetn]

Due to dual septic system field lines in my front yard....no trees. Have a tree line at the back of my property, but not enough leaves in the Fall on my lawn that I couldn't put them in a Kroger bag and put them on my neighbor's front porch(my vote:0)
If I really wanted to be mischievous, I'd put some poop in the bag, set the leaves on fire and ring the doorbell & run....if we hadn't been neighbors for 24 years I'd worry about some repercussions:0)

 

[deriter]

Back in the olden days, my wild and wicked days, on the last couple of mowings, I would just lower my mower to one of its lowest settings. Then I would wait for the winds to take the leaves onto someone else . Now as I have become a good neighbor, I just mow/mulch the leaves where they lay. I have 3 sycamore trees across the street to the north of me that drop dinner plate size leaves. At the end of the season I have about 1 1/2 to 2" of chopped leaves. But when spring comes, they are all gone. Its amazing how this stuff disappears like that. So thats what works for me.

 

[deminin]

We live on 40 acres of heavy rural forestland....oak, walnut, hickory, etc., and if leaves had any monetary value, we would be rich. In the Fall, I go around the yard every couple of weeks, and blow them into the forest with my Stihl backpack blower....if I leave them sit all Winter, it makes the soil too acidic, and allows moss to grow. Then, once I have cleared the bulk of them, I make one pass with the mulching plate on the riding mower, and grind up what few are left. We have a gravel road with our driveway sitting near the bottom of a gentle 1/4 mile slope, and the roadside ditch fills up with leaves which would clog up the culvert under the driveway when the Spring rains come. So...a couple of times in the Fall, I blow the leaves off the roadside yard into the ditch, and have a nice bonfire....while keeping a close watch on the ditch, with plenty of water handy, so as to not start a forest fire. AHHH...the smell of burning leaves in the Fall...one of life's little pleasures. Plus, keeping the ditch cleared of dry leaves substantially lessens the chance of someone throwing a lit cigarette out their car window, and starting a fire.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

I just leave an where they lay, unless they blow against the house.

 

[broo]

I have lots of leaves on my property at Fall. When I'm done mowing the grass, I mow the leaves 2 or 3 times. It does two things :

- Helps leaves become dirt faster since they are now in smaller pieces.
- Cleans up the mower deck pretty good. Kind of a mild sandblast.

 

[Darryl G]

Blast them into the woods whenever I can. https://youtu.be/8DXVh0wPs7g

 

[vmaxed]

I pick them up with my Agri-fab for compost.

 

[Ken22]

Mulch