Blow your leaves or mulch them?

[Zeke 5,504]

I mulch whilst mower da lawn. My research has brought my to the conclusion it's good fertilizer.

Your thoughts

[SuRrEaLNJ 294]

i do as well, but to a point, i have 13 trees on my Bergen co suburban yard, so i mulch as much as i can, but eventually its too deep to get the mower to mulch then i have to blow

[Zeke 5,504]

Mow than mow again? No

[YankeeSC 1,204]

Mulch.  Made the decision last fall and haven't looked back. SO. Much. Easier.

[Howard 538]

I thought it was bad to mulch them as they are acidic and then you have to put down a lot of lime to counter it.

[Zeke 5,504]

Depends on the ph of your soil.

[Donobieus 15]

I mulch till it gets too thick, then I put the bagger on my ride on mower and suck them up once....Then I mulch again.

[fishnut 2,358]

I bag it with the mower and dump it at the curb. One of the few perks of living and paying taxes in raritan twp. I do reserve some for the compost bin though. Leaves is a full time job at my place. 9 full size apple trees, 5 maples, 1 oak, 3 poplars, and 2 sycamores.

[Frank Rizzo 59]

When I lived in paradise (Wayne flood zone) I blew them all into the woods. Now the leaves not so bad, what little I have I just much.

[jm1827 284]

Mulch, my lawn is almost 5 acres it would take me a week to blow it!

[SmittyMHS 603]

I blow some and mulch most of it. My big problem is the acorns. They're getting about 2 in deep. You can't rake them because they're only about 1/2 to 3/4 in diameter so they pass right thru a rake.. Its getting dangerous to walk on them. Almost like walking on marbles. Not even my tree!

[T Bill 649]

Live in the woods. so some areas are blown and the grassy areas are mulched.  Mulch kit stays on the mower year round.

[silverado427 10,724]

I wish my neighbors were concerned about their leaves as you are.

[Kevin125 4,772]

Blow em into the woods.....

[Ricky_Bobby 130]

I have about 2 acres - I blow the back of the backyard into the woods, the front yard gets blown to the trees on opposite corners of each side of the front yard, I mulch them up really good and blow out the dust -

 

The front of the backyard closer to the house I make a big pile a few times during the season and mulch them up and blow out the dust, then after a final cleanup I do another blowing/mulching job and then put the grass catcher on my mower and bag up during my final cut and cleanup if the grass isn't too long -

 

I have a 52" Scag 17hp Kawasaki walk behind though, so mulching is pretty easy with Gator blades.  I wouldn't do it if I had a regular Toro mower or something with one of those bags on the back of the mower, way too much property

 

Been meaning to get a Little Wonder leaf vac/blower, would make my life easier than me out there for 4 hours with just my Redmax blower

[Handyman 5,682]

My neighbor went out of town for the holiday, so I blew them all into her yard. I blew over a couple of her signs related to a losing presidential candidate, too.

[Zeke 5,504]

It's amazing how the jus disappear. Mulched a good pile yesterday.

[mipafox 438]

I let the wind blow them around until they end up in a giant pile in the corner of my fence. Then I open the gate for about 10 hours a night and over a week and they all blow into the neighbor's yard.

[siderman 1,138]

 My lawn looks forward to a good blow job, keeps it happy and healthy. Got a nice patch of wood down below to accomodate it.

[Peter Goldwing 90]

I have 4 large  live oak in by backyard.  Today I bought a mulcher shreader. I took sample dirt to Department of Agriculture and they said my soil is alkaline. The  mulched leaves will bring it to normal

[varna 9]

Neither........... why do you think they are called...... leaves........

[AVB-AMG 530]

In our town, most folks do not have huge tracks of property like some here do in more rural areas.  So most of us just hire a Landscaping service to come to our yards to remove the fallen leaves several times in the Fall and once in the early Spring.  This usually involves a crew of 3-4 Hispanic laborers, most likely non-documented, using back-pack blowers to blow all the leaves and acorns into big piles along the curb in the street and then using rakes to feed them into a big flex-hose vacuum that sucks them up into the back of a covered dump truck, which then carts it all off for disposal.  Also, we have mostly oak trees on our property, but also have one maple tree that stubbornly refuses to drop its leaves until the middle of December, the last of all trees in our neighborhood to do so every year, requiring delaying the final fall yard clean up work until then.

 

Also, the acorns from the tall oak trees are a major PITA, since when they fall they can cause very noticeable dents in the aluminum hoods, roofs and trunk lids of any cars that are parked in driveways and/or on the street under the oak trees.  Sometimes, the sound of a fully developed acorn hitting a car can almost sound like a .22 being fired in the distance, making me wince at the thought of the resulting dent...

 

AVB-AMG

[T Bill 649]

Never park your car under an Ash tree, they drop branches like Oaks drop acorns, and the Hickorys drop nuts that are 3 times the size of an acorn.

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

My neighbor went out of town for the holiday, so I blew them all into her yard. I blew over a couple of her signs related to a losing presidential candidate, too.

Handyman, you crack me up!

 

My landscape guy comes by when he's good and ready (no sign of him so far), and my leaves magically disappear!

[carl_g 568]

This is my set up..

[Zeke 5,504]

In our town, most folks do not have huge tracks of property like some here do in more rural areas. So most of us just hire a Landscaping service to come to our yards to remove the fallen leaves several times in the Fall and once in the early Spring. This usually involves a crew of 3-4 Hispanic laborers, most likely non-documented, using back-pack blowers to blow all the leaves and acorns into big piles along the curb in the street and then using rakes to feed them into a big flex-hose vacuum that sucks them up into the back of a covered dump truck, which then carts it all off for disposal. Also, we have mostly oak trees on our property, but also have one maple tree that stubbornly refuses to drop its leaves until the middle of December, the last of all trees in our neighborhood to do so every year, requiring delaying the final fall yard clean up work until then.

 

Also, the acorns from the tall oak trees are a major PITA, since when they fall they can cause very noticeable dents in the aluminum hoods, roofs and trunk lids of any cars that are parked in driveways and/or on the street under the oak trees. Sometimes, the sound of a fully developed acorn hitting a car can almost sound like a .22 being fired in the distance, making me wince at the thought of the resulting dent...

 

AVB-AMG

I tend to do most things myself. It's Emerson Thoreau kinda thing.

[fishnut 2,358]

I tend to do most things myself. It's Emerson Thoreau kinda thing.

me too but it's because I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me.

[Zeke 5,504]

me too but it's because I can't afford to pay someone to do it for me.

And that too! Lol

 

On a slight drift.

It used to be landscape contractors were for the wealthy or commercial entities. Nieghbor kids would mow the lazy or elderly or handicapped residents. I am utterly amazed in my blue collar "lot by lot"town how many people pay to have the lawn mowed. 4 rods x 4rods worth of grass!

 

Are we too busy? Too lazy? Labor has become beneath us? Self reliance in America is a dying art.

[SmittyMHS 603]

Did someone say acorns?

I can't get rid of 'em.

I also have a black walnut tree. Well I don't. My neighbor does. You should get hit by one of those suckers!. A rock is softer. 

[siderman 1,138]

I tend to do most things myself. It's Emerson Thoreau kinda thing.

Me too, self relience, my castle, my home. I do pretty much everything myself including building my own house lol. And that paying someone else to do something I can bugs me. Cracks me up seeing all the neighbors with able kids hiring out lawn mowing....spoiled brats. However old age is catching up : (