Last year, the city picked up leaves, curb-side, only one time. Of course, I lost the grass!
This year, I'm raking and/or blowing leaves into several piles, then raking them onto a tarp. I haul the tarp to the compost pile, one tarp-full at a time, and run the mower over them. Woo-hoo! Talk about a huge time-saver! Add all the leave mulch to kitchen scrapings and wood ash, and I get yummy compost for vegetable gardening the next summer.
Then, there's the problem of the neighbors' leaves, which don't get touched until every leaf is off the tree. I have to keep them raked on the median between the properties, as I do the mowing, fertilizing, over-seeding, raking, etc. By the time the tree is empty, most of them are in my yard. I think those kids are on to something! What do you think?
