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fall leaves
We just moved into our first house. We have woods at the back of the
very large yard, and many large, mature trees on our property as well as the surrounding neoghbors'. I love autumn, love big piles of leaves, love to play in the piles with the kids, etc. I have no aesthetic problem with leaves being all over the place, prefer it, actually as it is my favorite season and I am not that enchanted with the typical suburban lawn scenario (which I intend to remedy on my own property over time), and chose a property with woods at the back because we really like to be near the natural beauty. We are not in a new, fancy neighborhood with one of those associations with rules, and as far as I can see while perusing the local ordinances for various information regarding fencing and such, while being expected to keep up the property to a reasonable degree, there is nothing specific about cleaning up leaves. I don't know yet what the communal expectations are for this neighborhood. My question is, why does everyone generally work themselves into a lather cleaning up the leaves? Is it damaging to the lawn or garden? I would think the opposite would be true, in this 4-season climate. My mother says that in her neighborhood, if the neighbor cleaned up their leaves and you didn't do yours and they proceeded to blow over onto the clean yard, there would be a problem. I'd prefer to just not bother, again not out of laziness or whatever, but because I like them and I don't really see the point. -Karen- |
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