Existential Angst wrote:
Awl --

You'd think so, the way homeowners/landscapers run around with leaf
blowers getting rid of every single last one of them.

Is eliminating leaves that important?
What would happen if people *didn't* blow every leaf off their
property?
What I find strange is that people will blow leaves off of bare dirt
-- seems to me you'd WANT leaves covering soil.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/public/46613.html says that shredding leaves
and covering the lawn with them is a good thing.
Basically anything you do with leaves except burn them is OK -- leaves
collected by landscapers eventually get composted by the municipality
-- I think.

Personally, I think my neighbors are just a little to fanatic with
this leaf blowing thing -- jmo.

The same compulsive neatness and waste of effort is involved in having
"beautiful" lawns, in fact the two often go together as for ultimate
"beauty" you don't want leaves obscuring your lawn. So many high-resource
lawns aren't even used for play, oh no this might produce wear spots, they
are just there to admire. Such madness is taken to the extreme when the
compulsive leaf blowing lawn trimmer sends the debris to land fill.

David