Brooklyn1 wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:15:49 -0700, "Bob F"
wrote:

Brooklyn1 wrote:
Tell me this was all a joke.

Probably serious, seriously stupid. I have large lawn areas with
several large trees and large forest areas with lots of trees. I
never ever rake leaves. The leaves in the forest are free to do
their own thing. The leaves on my lawn early on mostly blow away
and the few that accumulate under trees get taken care of with my
last mowing, I have mulching blades. Come spring after the snow
melts there are no leaves, they have all blown away and/or decayed.
I've never seen leaves accumulating feet deep, more like a couple
inches the most due to rain holding them plastered down, once they
dry they blow away, where to, into the forest of course.

Here in Seattle, not removing leaves results in significant patches
of dead lawn in the spring from the always wet leaves. They lay
there in clumps, and the lawn composts beneath them.

Then for you more than for me mulching blades are your friend.

If I don't remove the leaves, the "mulch" will kill the lawn. The grass just
can't breath under it.


I'm sure your neighbors love your blown away leaves.

Their properties are no different, they do exactly the same.

I rake them into the ornamental beds for free mulch. They definately
keep down the weeds.

Here those leaves would just blow away... large bark nuggets make a
much better/cleaner bedding mulch, leaves in foundation planting beds
smell and attact vermin. I'm looking outside now, my lawn is all a
lush green, all the leaves have recently fallen, hardly a leaf in
sight.

Wet leaves don't blow all that much.


Just now took these... what should I rake:
http://i46.tinypic.com/dw8lt1.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/1exwte.jpg

If you don't have significant trees nearby, you don't have a problem.