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We just got a quote for $250 for two men (working for a large landscape firm) to blow and haul away all the leaves from our front yard and to blow all the leaves in our backyard into a natural area. We do have A LOT of leaves on our .5 acre lot in SW Durham, but that seems ridiculous to me. We'd appreciate your thoughts on that quote as well as recommendations for leaf removal.
We just got a quote for $250 for two men (working for a large landscape firm) to blow and haul away all the leaves from our front yard and to blow all the leaves in our backyard into a natural area. We do have A LOT of leaves on our .5 acre lot in SW Durham, but that seems ridiculous to me. We'd appreciate your thoughts on that quote as well as recommendations for leaf removal.
I have a large (0.6 acre) lot and have a similar problem. Recently I read about a Worx brand leaf vac and decided to try it out. About $115 or so from Amazon - make sure to get the one with the metal impeller. Works GREAT - huge time savings in cleaning up. You can vac directly or rake a bit into small piles, then vac.
This has changed my fall cleanup from drudgery into short and fun.
This is a serious question. Why don't you guys just mulch mow your leaves in? What is the reason for not doing it? I notice *everyone* bags their leaves. Last year I even went around and collected the bagged leaves and dumped them in my yard to mulch them in. Put about 1" of mulched leaves on top...already starting to decompose into nice soil.
This is a serious question. Why don't you guys just mulch mow your leaves in? What is the reason for not doing it? I notice *everyone* bags their leaves. Last year I even went around and collected the bagged leaves and dumped them in my yard to mulch them in. Put about 1" of mulched leaves on top...already starting to decompose into nice soil.
I'm not sure who "you guys" is supposed to be, but all my leaves get recycled on the property back into mulch in all the natural areas or blown into the woods out back. The whole idea of the leaf vac is that it mulches them down and then you simply take the bag out back and empty it into the woods or natural areas. Bagging is ridiculously wasteful and should only be used as a last resort IMO.
I'm not sure who "you guys" is supposed to be, but all my leaves get recycled on the property back into mulch in all the natural areas or blown into the woods out back. The whole idea of the leaf vac is that it mulches them down and then you simply take the bag out back and empty it into the woods or natural areas. Bagging is ridiculously wasteful and should only be used as a last resort IMO.
I'll be honest I assumed you bagged. But the question is for those who do bag them I suppose. I dunno. Just seems like an exercise in redundancy.
I'll be honest I assumed you bagged. But the question is for those who do bag them I suppose. I dunno. Just seems like an exercise in redundancy.
I use my riding mower with bagger attachment to collect and mulch all the leaves which means grass clippings would be included as well so we have to bag. There's simply too many leaves to recycle them on the property, plus I've read somewhere that mulching too many leaves into the soil isn't good for the grass.
I use my riding mower with bagger attachment to collect and mulch all the leaves which means grass clippings would be included as well so we have to bag. There's simply too many leaves to recycle them on the property, plus I've read somewhere that mulching too many leaves into the soil isn't good for the grass.
That used to be the rule of thumb, but there's been a lot of serious research at Michigan State in particular that has shown that mulching both leaves and grass clippings in place is better for the lawn than bagging, raking, etc.. If you google Crop and Soil Sciences at MSU they have many of their research papers online.
There are some reasons to bag clippings in very specific cases, but the idea that grass clippings cause "thatch" has been completely disproven.
I end up having to clean up the leaves at my place 4 or 5 times from September till around the end of the year. If I waited until they all finished falling, they'd be 2' deep, and impossible to move with a blower. I'm about to go take round 3 with my leaves today! I have an acre, and over 100 trees...and the surrounding land is mostly wooded. Bagging is not an option. Burning is some years though!
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