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I have neighbors that blow the leaves into piles to bag at a later date, but before that point they usually blow away into someone elses yard. The considerate ones usually put a tarp over them at least. But, in order to pick up, they must be in those brown bags. No burning where I am.
I put out ~30 bags this fall. I don't have a single tree on my property.
I used to live in a city that vacuumed leaves, so we just raked them to the curb. Now, I do a combination of mulching and bagging. I mulch with a mower early in the season but then bag as the leaves build up and they're too thick to do any longer.
I used my garden tractor to blow the leaves into a line, then took my mulching hand mower to task. Choked a bit on 2 foot deep rows, but mulched them all down to little bits. Did not take long.
We are allowed to burn leaves, but I prefer to dump them in the woods.
Yeah I use mine for mulch. I rake them for exercise. This year I'm trying a new thing by putting leaves on my veggie beds. This may either mean better soil or tons of weeds in the beds. We shall see.
I go by the recommendations from the Penn State Center for Turfgrass Science. They recommend that established lawns and other general turfgrass areas should not receive more than 100 pounds of limestone per 1,000 square feet in any single application.
1,000 sq ft area is very small. (1/43 of an acre )
Thus, the 100 lbs application rate would be 2.15 tons per acre.
Yes I can see not applying a heavier rate than 2.15 tons per acre at one application unless it is tilled ground and it is being worked into the soil.
Last edited by David A Stone; 12-05-2016 at 08:43 PM..
Our tractor with a mower attachment uses bagger blades to pick up anthing we use it on, from grass to leaves. Just mow any leaves (lots of big trees on 1 acre of landscaping, bag them, and dump them in the compost pile. They get pulverized and really compact when bagged this way. My lawn man uses our equipment, and I just tell him what to do. Use a leaf blower to blow them off the veranda, and other concrete, before mowing.
I am too old to rake an acre with huge trees. As our snow here in Montana is so light and fluffy, I use the leaf blower to clear walks and driveways of snow. One heck of a lot easier than shoveling walks, decks, etc. About 1/10th the time involved. It is so easy, on the days our housekeeper works (3 days a week), she blows the walks so I rarely do it myself.
It's free fertilizer and dirt! By Summer the pile is useable organic soil along with my food scraps in there. and the yard has grass that's green and as soft as sod.
Word of advice if you're mowing them in.... LIME. Gotta throw lime down in Spring.
This is before I mow and pile them up. I don't bag or throw away one single leaf
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