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Post by peano on Oct 18, 2016 16:25:52 GMT
Our neighbor always comes and takes some for his gardens. DH mows them into piles and we hire someone to pick them up and haul them away. I leave the ones that blow into my gardens for soil enrichment.
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Post by Woobster on Oct 18, 2016 16:31:02 GMT
We have one maple tree, and it's only about 10 years old. Not many leaves. We usually do one good clean up round at the end of the season (beds, bushes, etc.) and call it good.
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Post by pudgygroundhog on Oct 18, 2016 18:15:49 GMT
Pay our HOA fees and let somebody else worry about it.  |
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Post by workingclassdog on Oct 18, 2016 18:46:44 GMT
One would think that central Florida doesn't have a fall season, but we do. It may be warmer than the rest of the world (although I hear that there is going to be record breaking heat in all kinds of places this week) but our oak trees are still dropping leaves, the pine trees are dropping their pine needles, and my drake elm is dropping all kinds of crap every where. We also have trees that are changing leaf colors.  I mow twice a week so the leaves get sucked up in the mower bag, then dumped in either a spot for mulching or in a bag for the city to pick up. When the weather turns, I still mow once a week or so, so what ever drops get mowed up. My biggest complaint is the magnolia tree. Those leaves are like thick cardboard and while the do get mowed over, sometimes they don't get crunched up. They sit there mocking me, daring me to rake them up instead of mowing. I love a pretty magnolia tree-particularly when it is blooming, but after almost 18 years of dealing with it's leaves, I love them in other people's yards so much more. That is so funny.. I just spoke to my sister who lives near Tampa and I asked her if there is any fall trees...she said NO pretty fall trees and not a leaf to be found. Guess it all depends in FL if you have leaves or not..lol |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 19:09:28 GMT
We only have our two Cleveland Pear trees to worry about, so we blow them in a big pile, then switch the leaf blower to a leaf sucking/mulching machine and then into yard bags they go to be picked up on garbage day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 21:14:18 GMT
Our yard is in the woods, and our neighborhood is 1-acre zoning. I'm one of the ones who lets them go until the fall cleanup service (that I hire) does the lawn and garden beds sometime in November. It would be futile to try and rake every week. I have over a hundred trees in my yard.
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Post by lisae on Oct 18, 2016 21:29:50 GMT
This is one of the good things about having several acres. Just let the wind blow! I think I've raked leaves maybe twice since we have been here.
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Post by bigbundt on Oct 18, 2016 22:43:47 GMT
We wait until most of the leaves drop, which always seems to be a few weeks after our neighbors' trees drop theirs. Our next door neighbors are very fastidious about their yard and they are out there every time a leaf falls into the yard. I know our lack of raking them up drives them crazy because she's playfully said something about it but we're not going the rake the yard for six weeks until the trees to be done. If they are really bad we'll rake a couple of times but I don't see the point of raking everything up when there are still branches full of leaves above us.
We'll either blow them to the backyard to burn or we hire a service to rake and haul away for us.
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