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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on November 08, 2024, 08:09:11 PM
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This year the leaves all seemed to drop at once!
No way to keep up with my mulching mower.
(https://i.postimg.cc/QC8bvHNB/20241104-132100.jpg)
The front yard looked just as fun.
Instead of raking and mulching for hours again this year, I called in the posse~!
I could have blown them into piles after a couple of hours - but then what to do with them?!
A crew of 7 with gas blowers and one guy pushing the piles around with a big riding mower, spent 60 mins moving my leaves to the curb - then they vacuumed them up!
I made a coffee - but I did get up and check on them every so often.
(https://i.postimg.cc/rwWs4gcJ/20241108-133020.jpg)
Stig
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That’s one professional outfit there Stig! Still awaiting my guy…
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I bet that wasn't inexpensive!...but anything is better than raking leaves! I usually just mulch them all but with the rain we've had, my backyard leaves are wet and matted down. The mulching doesn't seem to work.
I also have a Bald Cypress and 2 Dawn Redwoods that drop needles/twigs that aren't picked up by a mower, either....I've ended up raking the debris under each offending tree and using it as mulch.
Riding > lawn work
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I've got 4 huge Oak trees in my backyard. I have a John Deere D130 garden tractor with the bagger attachment. I bet I empty 20 or 30 bags full of leaves each fall. My neighbor just had his done by a professional. It cost him $350.00. I'm 80 now and probably will have to bite the bullet and go that route in a few years.
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I let fallen leaves stay put and let Mother Nature do her recycling magic. Better for the soil, flora and fauna, easier for me, and I prefer the look. Prefer the yard to look like a state park vs a golf course fairway. Plus it seems more environmentally friendly.
But maybe I’m just lazy and trying to justify it.
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I let fallen leaves stay put and let Mother Nature do her recycling magic. Better for the soil, flora and fauna, easier for me, and I prefer the look. Prefer the yard to look like a state park vs a golf course fairway. Plus it seems more environmentally friendly.
But maybe I’m just lazy and trying to justify it.
A thick layer of leaves can starve your grass of sunlight and cause it to die.
Stig
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A thick layer of leaves can starve your grass of sunlight and cause it to die.
Stig
True, but I have no grass. Ripped it out after moving in. Don’t even have a lawn mower. Hated mowing as a kid, had no intention of doing it w my own house.
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Yes me too Stig!
My guys (who also maintain my garden for me) arrived today and using their motor blowers cleared all the leaves in about a tenth of the time it would have taken me. IMO £££s well spent.
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my yard is a forest
(https://i.imgur.com/jD1Jm9yl.jpg)
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And I thought I have it bad with self-pruning oak trees and their leaves....
Just walk cautiously or not at all during high winds!