I used to rake them on a tarp and drag them to the curbside. But now, we're gonna get a lawnmower that as a mulcher.
Our yard doesn't look big, but oh boy! Everyone that has offered to do our yard has always either quit midway or renegotiated the price of it 😂
I put them in the back of my pick up, cover the bed and then later at night, I drive to an area where I dislike the residents. I remove the tarp and drive fast through their neighborhood to blow the leaves all over.
No option for composting them? That is what I would do.
That'd be option 4(your shit's weak son!) I just have a personal aversion to the digging. My Grandpa was a WWII vet and dug fighting holes even after he couldn't walk on his own anymore. My Grandma would go in after him and make them compost pits. Still and all, I almost drowned in a couple.
I never understood it until I had some time in service myself. I can't put plants in the ground, my wife does that or our house will end up with fox holes or straight up trenches. You start digging, and you just can't stop. Typing it I'm thinking how much less soil the yard needs, and how many more hesco bins. lol, the things that are logical, right?
I’m fortunate to be bordered in back by forest, so I rake them onto a tarp, fold up the edges, and just let ‘em go out in the woods. Out of sight, out of mind. And we have strong winds blowing off the ocean from the front, so they never come back in on us, so that’s good, since we can’t burn leaves here, or only on a certain day well into winter with a permit.
We’re up on a bluff, but it’s coastal New England, so definitely not arid. But FUCK is it windy, haha. And it is hilly. It’s kind of a weird area since it’s coastal and woodsy at the same time, and the town as a whole is pretty forested, and hilly. I’m not an expert on fire hazard levels, but I think most of the time it’s not too dry, just maybe if we have a period with no rain in the summer or fall it might go to high risk. But it’s windy like you read about, 20mph+ on the reg, so I’m guessing they can’t fuck around with that variable in play so often.
Compost. Pretty much anything organic goes in the compost. Then eventually the compost goes into the garden, or just leeches into the yard. My compost is many years old. There is some very rich soil in there. There are also a zillion earth worms. Like one shovel full might have a dozen worms.
Larger sticks and limbs go into the stick pile. The rabbits live under it. Even larger limbs are given to neighbors who have wood burning stoves.
I can't compost, it's one step away from fortifying my property. I mean, to a minor extent it is, but earthworks, and tearing out my walls for steamed concrete are the next logical step. Plywood and insulation to stop shrapnel and small arms fire are difficult enough to justify as eco-friendly already.
My town has a facility that takes in yard waste and processes it into mulch and other stuff. I have a trailer that i use and I put leaves, grass clippings , tree branches and other stuff and take it down there and dump it.
Yeah, so you'd figure someone would use a stump grinder and figure something similar out. We're bottom in education though... so standby for cutting wheel can stay still while would moves to it. It's a high speed low drag idea, but we'll get it here... eventually. What am I saying, I worked at a landfill before and watched them burn vegetative debris too close to the water meant for putting the fire out, the water boiled out as steam, the tank melted, the fire raged out of control for days. Rather than burn small and push debris on they tried the same thing again with a bigger tank.
Well, I used them to i sulate the roots of my spruce trees. It its winter I leave them on the grass so when the snow comes the grass gets really cozy and comes in really fresh for spring.
Stuff them in dirty socks and sell them as MyPillow.
We rake them into the woods into a large compositing pile that we "stir" once a week
Let them rot away to nurture the plants of next year.
Below trees there isn't much grass in the first place, because its too shady. So i don't see a problem with using some leaves to nurture the trees.
Also spreading leaves between the plants protects them in the winter month from freezing.
You could also pile them in a composter and let them rot there and use the earth as fertile ground covering elsewhere.
The only time I raked leaves I burned them afterwards.
Why would I spend the effort to remove the free fertilizer nature gives me?
I have undeveloped woods behind my house. I put all the leaves in the woods
We do nothing with our leaves. Ot stays there and decomposes into soil.
Burn them because I love the smell.
Or compost them and use it my garden?
Where I live people take care of the fallen leaves in the Autumn and hopefully get them done before snow.
I just let the wind blow them away.
I try to make a leaf bra
I rake them up and toss them into the woods.
I throw them in the fire pit.
Leaves in March? After the snow? What?
I'd say bag them nicely 🤔
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