msterspy expounded:

I live in the Boston area and I have about 5 oak trees and two pines.
I get a lot of leaves and I recently contracted a guy to move all of
the leaves to the rear corner of the yard. $300 for probably 1/2 day
work. Everything is expensive in the Boston area. Anyway, it would be
very costly to have the leaves carted off to the dump. The yard slopes
away form the house and it would be cost a lot more to remove the
pile.
I would like to add something like lime to speed up the decompostion.
Is this a good plan? Is there any other beter way to speed up the
proceess. There will be a huge pile of leaves and it builds up every
year.

$300? You're getting........overcharged. I live south of Boston and
prices aren't that bad!

The best way would be to run the lawnmower over them to chop them up
and then turn them over every once in awhile, that'll speed up the
process.
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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