For five years I had some weird maple tree disease. The leaves would turn brown with a weird fungus. I read online that this comes back because I was mulching the leaves. Now I fill the lawn sweeper, dump the leaves in the back yard compost area. The fungus / disease never came back.
Before I put up a fence to contain my dogs and to keep out deer, the wind did the work for me, blowing it over to my neighbor and the furthrt into wetlands area. But n ow I haz a fence.
I own 3 acres with 3 maple trees that I planted ten years ago. What few leaves they produce are gone with the wind.
Our place up north has enough oak trees to coat the whole yard several inches deep. I used to rake and haul load after load into the woods. A couple years ago we started to hire it done. best idea ever!
I have a lawn service but they mulch it in most of the year until the last couple of mowings when it gets too thick in the backyard and they rake them up and then suck them up into a truck and take them away. When I was doing it all myself I did the same thing - except for the big vacuum truck... I just bagged them.
The first year I was in my house I just left them on the ground in the backyard thinking that they would decompose on their own but there were just way too many of them and they were too thick and I had huge bare patches of mud and dead grass all spring.
For five years I had some weird maple tree disease. The leaves would turn brown with a weird fungus. I read online that this comes back because I was mulching the leaves. Now I fill the lawn sweeper, dump the leaves in the back yard compost area. The fungus / disease never came back.
I usually mulch them in as long as I can and end up raking 2-3 times before I call it for the year. This year I have given very little attention to my yard, so I have more cleanup to do going in to the season.
I used to rake them onto a tarp then drag them into the woods over a weekend. Now, I go away hunting, I come back and they are magically gone and my bank account is a little smaller.
In my neighborhood we just rake them into the street 2 days a year in the fall and the city comes with a vacuum truck and gets them all on those 2 days.
That would be great for me if they did that around your road and Mason road. I often drive there and most people seem to burn the leaves in the ditch by the road, nearly suffocating the unsuspecting driver (me ).
This would not work for me though. I would have to drag my leaves over 1000 feet to the curb, I would rather leave them in the heap pile to make compost.:thumb:
We have 2+ acres with dozens of trees, I blow them into the woods on the edge of the property with one of these. Only thing we've found that can take care of the leaves as deep as they get. Gets rid of all the twigs and pine needles too, and throws a plastic lawn chair a hell of a distance.
pay me to bring my big boy toys over....i will re invest said income into a sweet wheelering rig :thumb:
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