sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Oct 17, 2016 19:30:49 GMT
Mow them to mulch? Pick them up as they fall? Let the wind blow them away and deal with the rest after the trees are naked?
ETA: Do you feel like it's your "trash" littering the neighborhood if you don't clean them up right away and they blow all over?
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 17, 2016 19:31:47 GMT
Right now I am doing one bag a day...we don't have a huge yard but we have enough leaves to fill about 10 bags...
also some are still getting mowed up..so that helps...
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Post by myshelly on Oct 17, 2016 19:34:17 GMT
We have a tiny yard (we like it that way), but we have trees and live in a neighborhood with tons of trees.
I sweep leaves off the porch with a broom and that's about it.
I don't understand why fallen leaves are in the same category as trash.
It's just not that big of a deal to me.
They'll either get blown away or decompose eventually.
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sharlag
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I like my artsy with a little bit of fartsy.
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Location: Kansas
Jun 26, 2014 12:57:48 GMT
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Post by sharlag on Oct 17, 2016 19:37:02 GMT
I don't understand why fallen leaves are in the same category as trash. It's just not that big of a deal to me. They'll either get blown away or decompose eventually. I can see really thick piles of them killing people's grass, you know-- smothering them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2016 19:41:01 GMT
I have one tree that we rake under, but my yard is full of leaves thanks to the neighbors.
We just wait for the wind to deal with them, alto sometimes the leaves may or may not make it back into the yard from which they came.
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smcast
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Post by smcast on Oct 17, 2016 19:41:09 GMT
I really like the look of leaves falling. Peer pressure living in town with the neighbors. When I lived in the country, I just left them. I just mulch as I mow until the fall clean up day our city has. When that day rolls around, most of us in town rake them up and put in the street for the city to dispose of. Of course, there are still plenty of leaves that have yet to fall after that but too bad. LOL!
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Post by secondlife on Oct 17, 2016 19:42:20 GMT
Our HOA does one big leaf cleanup a year so we just leave them until the crew does it.
I don't feel like it's litter. It's fall, they're leaves.
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Post by jenb72 on Oct 17, 2016 19:45:07 GMT
We have a giant old oak in our backyard that drops lots of leaves in the fall/winter. We broke down last year and bought a blower and, for the most part, we blow them to the very back corner of our property, which is next to a creek that divides our property from the neighbors and is out of the way of everything.
The first year we lived in the house, we tried raking them - it felt like we were raking almost every day. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Jen
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schizo319
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Post by schizo319 on Oct 17, 2016 19:45:36 GMT
Occasionally, we'll run the mower over them if the grass needs mowing anyway, but otherwise, we just let big mama nature do her thing. Our "lawn" is mostly weeds and clover and we live in a blue collar neighborhood full of the same - maintaining a "lawn" around here is not only futile, but downright wasteful.
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Post by Linda on Oct 17, 2016 19:55:07 GMT
Occasionally, we'll run the mower over them if the grass needs mowing anyway, but otherwise, we just let big mama nature do her thing. Our "lawn" is mostly weeds and clover and we live in a blue collar neighborhood full of the same - maintaining a "lawn" around here is not only futile, but downright wasteful. sounds like us
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Post by georgiabeachbum on Oct 17, 2016 19:57:15 GMT
We just let them go and the winds take them where they may. We have Bermuda grass that turns brown and goes dormant in the winter so we don't worry about the grass smothering. Our lawn crew only comes once a month to take care of trees and shrubs in the winter and they will pick them up then with mowers.
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Post by wonderwoman on Oct 17, 2016 20:00:47 GMT
We pick them all up.. I don't want my leaves blowing into my neighbors yard.. They took out a tree due to the mess it left so I don't expect them to clean up mine.. I have been thinking of doing compost..
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 17, 2016 20:01:48 GMT
I rake what falls in my grass and driveway and roof. Unfortunately our birch tree is at least 50 feet tall and the leaves blow into both neighbors yards, across the street neighbors yard and into the street. About 1 billion small leaves from this one tree, I could spend a month and wouldn't be able to rake every single one especially when they get wet and stick to everything. About 75% fall off on one windy day around November and I make the entire family work on the mess, but usually we run out of yard bin, compost bin and places to put them...
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Post by marysue63 on Oct 17, 2016 20:04:10 GMT
We blow our leaves into our street into a pile and then the city comes and picks them up. We do use some as mulch on our raised beds.
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Post by littlemama on Oct 17, 2016 20:07:38 GMT
I pile them up in front of a Pea's garage. (I wish I could remember who it was who had a neighbor doing that to her!)
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 17, 2016 20:17:01 GMT
We cut our 50 year old Oak tree down. I hated losing that tree but don't miss at all the thigh high leaves covering our yard.
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Post by dulcemama on Oct 17, 2016 20:21:40 GMT
Occasionally, we'll run the mower over them if the grass needs mowing anyway, but otherwise, we just let big mama nature do her thing. Our "lawn" is mostly weeds and clover and we live in a blue collar neighborhood full of the same - maintaining a "lawn" around here is not only futile, but downright wasteful. Yeah, this. We live in a small subdivision outside of the city. A few people in the neighborhood clean up their leaves but the majority don't.
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 17, 2016 20:22:17 GMT
I pile them up in front of a Pea's garage. (I wish I could remember who it was who had a neighbor doing that to her!) HA I remember that!!! In fact, I saw my neighbor across the street working hard on 'raking' her curbside (Weird) then saw her big pile of leaves behind her neighbors car. I had to laugh...(It's so windy here today that pile is probably back on her lawn)... I love the look of leaves on the ground but I hate all those leaves when it starts to snow...just a giant mess. So one bag a day, I still have leaves but by the time all the leaves are 'gone' my yard is pretty much done. NOW that said there is a giant tree next to out next to our backyard and no leaves yet...but they will be falling soon and then I start all over except it's more of a pain because it is all fenced in and I gotta rake them up instead of blowing the excess into the street.
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Post by warrior1991 on Oct 17, 2016 20:33:41 GMT
In a town near me, they rake the leaves into the street and the city comes by with a huge vacuum and sucks them up. Wish that was my town. I mulch mine. I have no time for raking and bagging.
A little boy in church on Sunday was so excited to tell his Grandma that he got to rake leaves on Saturday. He was so proud. He is a doll!!
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MorningPerson
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Jul 4, 2014 21:35:44 GMT
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Post by MorningPerson on Oct 17, 2016 20:37:42 GMT
Our borough provides leaf pickup - we just rake them next to the street and every two weeks from now until the middle of December a truck with a big vacuum hose comes around to pick them up. ETA lol warrior1991 I must have been typing as you were posting. Do you live in central PA?
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Post by lisacharlotte on Oct 17, 2016 20:44:05 GMT
We rake and drag to our back yard to compost. We live in a neighborhood with lots of trees. There is no way to prevent leaves from blowing into other yards. Ours drop in the fall and we deal with leaves thru the first snow. After that we wait until spring for any additional cleanup. My neighbor has a pin oak that doesn't drop leaves until after it snows so we live with his leaves until spring also.
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Post by monklady123 on Oct 17, 2016 20:47:29 GMT
Mow them to mulch? Pick them up as they fall? Let the wind blow them away and deal with the rest after the trees are naked? ETA: Do you feel like it's your "trash" littering the neighborhood if you don't clean them up right away and they blow all over?No, it's actually the neighbor's trash littering MY yard! lol. We have only two dogwoods and a crepe (crape?) myrtle in the front yard so we don't have many leaves. However -- our neighbor with the two BIG oak trees is another story. omg. And oak trees shed for weeks and weeks and weeks...most other trees obligingly drop most of theirs at one time. So since we do not have an oak tree I can tell at a glance as I'm raking that the offending leaves are from the neighbor. Lol -- but actually I don't mind. Since I love Fall I actually don't mind yard chores, which I detest in the summer. I usually rake a couple of times a week and pile the leaves in our yard waste bin that gets collected weekly. It's fun, my dog has a good time "helping" me, and usually I end up also raking the yard of the owner of the oak trees since they're older now.
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Post by melanell on Oct 17, 2016 20:49:42 GMT
I don't view leaves as litter at all. I think they're pretty, actually. And I would much rather see your leaves and even have them come into my yard than hear you using a leaf blower 24/7 trying to keep them away. (There's a man in my area that spends hours a day blowing leaves from his wooded yard just across the street. It's the most fruitless endeavor ever, but I think he just likes doing it. I am glad I don't live next to him, though, because those leaf blowers are loud, especially for so many hours a day.) Personally, we leave our leaves be. If the grass is still growing then we keep mowing, and the leaves are mulched that way. But when it stops growing, we stop messing with any of it. Our yard slopes downward to a wooded area and then down more to a creek, so many of the leaves make their way down and out of the yard on their own. But over the winter, the leaves left mulch down quite a bit, and it's never an issue come Spring.
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Post by melanell on Oct 17, 2016 20:51:13 GMT
Our borough provides leaf pickup - we just rake them next to the street and every two weeks from now until the middle of December a truck with a big vacuum hose comes around to pick them up. ETA lol warrior1991 I must have been typing as you were posting. Do you live in central PA? Some of the boroughs around here do that as well. But we live in a rural area. With people having anywhere between 1 and 100 acres, leaf removal is just not a priority for most people. Save
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Oct 17, 2016 21:12:49 GMT
fall leaves are nature's glitter. It's blasphemous to remove them.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2016 21:40:08 GMT
At home DH mulches them with the mower, but the trees we have here drop their leaves pretty much all at once. At the lake we have to use a leaf blower and/or lawn mower to get them up and then we dump them in our woods. At the deer shack we mow over whatever is down and don't worry about the rest. We have a tiny yard (we like it that way), but we have trees and live in a neighborhood with tons of trees. I sweep leaves off the porch with a broom and that's about it. I don't understand why fallen leaves are in the same category as trash. It's just not that big of a deal to me. They'll either get blown away or decompose eventually. Most leaves will eventually decompose, but oak leaves in particular are a lot sturdier and they don't decompose quickly. Leaving them on the lawn will kill it. They don't all drop at once either, so we end up having to get them up in waves so they don't kill the grass. The other thing is after they've been left on lawn under the snow all winter, not only are they not decomposed but they're heavy, wet and muddy which makes them even more fun to get off the lawn. It's much easier to take care of them when they've just fallen and they're relatively clean and dry. ETA: Last year we used a huge commercial leaf blower to get them all collected up to dump in the woods. We thought we'd pile them on a tarp and drag it to the woods. We got about a third of them raked on a huge tarp (20'x30' maybe?) and the pile was at least 6' tall. They were so heavy when we tried to pull it with the ATV all the grommets ripped right out of the sides of the tarp. Now imagine how heavy those leaves would be if they were wet!
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Post by laureljean on Oct 17, 2016 21:41:18 GMT
Wait for the lawn service we hired to come and clean them up.
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Post by myshelly on Oct 17, 2016 21:41:39 GMT
At home DH mulches them with the mower, but the trees we have here drop their leaves pretty much all at once. At the lake we have to use a leaf blower and/or lawn mower to get them up and then we dump them in our woods. At the deer shack we mow over whatever is down and don't worry about the rest. We have a tiny yard (we like it that way), but we have trees and live in a neighborhood with tons of trees. I sweep leaves off the porch with a broom and that's about it. I don't understand why fallen leaves are in the same category as trash. It's just not that big of a deal to me. They'll either get blown away or decompose eventually. Most leaves will eventually decompose, but oak leaves in particular are a lot sturdier and they don't decompose quickly. Leaving them on the lawn will kill it. They don't all drop at once either, so we end up having to get them up in waves so they don't kill the grass. The other thing is after they've been left on lawn under the snow all winter, not only are they not decomposed but they're heavy, wet and muddy which makes them even more fun to get off the lawn. It's much easier to take care of them when they've just fallen and they're relatively clean and dry. See, we don't have snow here and it's so hot still when the leaves are falling that they just get super brittle and crumble up so it's just not an issue.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Oct 17, 2016 21:47:27 GMT
nothing... I used to rake them,then one year that didnt happen, that winter/spring/summer my yard looked the same as the years I had raked so I stopped..
if the yard needs mowed I will mow. and sometimes I will blow leaves one way or another with the mower,but not always and we are in such a drought now that Ive not mowed in weeks--
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 17, 2016 21:53:05 GMT
At home DH mulches them with the mower, but the trees we have here drop their leaves pretty much all at once. At the lake we have to use a leaf blower and/or lawn mower to get them up and then we dump them in our woods. At the deer shack we mow over whatever is down and don't worry about the rest. Most leaves will eventually decompose, but oak leaves in particular are a lot sturdier and they don't decompose quickly. Leaving them on the lawn will kill it. They don't all drop at once either, so we end up having to get them up in waves so they don't kill the grass. The other thing is after they've been left on lawn under the snow all winter, not only are they not decomposed but they're heavy, wet and muddy which makes them even more fun to get off the lawn. It's much easier to take care of them when they've just fallen and they're relatively clean and dry. See, we don't have snow here and it's so hot still when the leaves are falling that they just get super brittle and crumble up so it's just not an issue. The oak leaves don't crumble up like maple or other tree leaves even if they stay dry.
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