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Which is better for the lawn over the winter?
Dioclese wrote:
Lazy people will leave them where they land. Slightly less lazy people will run over them with a lawn mower. People that want healthy lawn and trees will bag them and get them the hell outa there. The premise (which I think is not valid) is that all people are under the notion that removing the leaves is the best solution for a healthy and green lawn and rees. The corollary to your point would then be that people that do not bag their leaves are under the solid notion that leaving them on the ground *is better*. There might be some of those, but I don't think it applies to the majority of "non-baggers". I happen to believe that those that don't rake them are lazy and it probably shows in other ways that they take care of their grounds and property all year round. Maybe they're physically incapable of raking and bagging - but in those cases they are presumably paying for yard maintainence - or they are on the eve of moving out of their home and into an apartment or managed care facility. Our city stopped collecting bagged grass during regular weekly garbage pickup about 10 years ago. Ever since then, if you bag your grass, you either compost it on your own propery, or you drop it at specified depots and pay $1 a bag. By osmosis, every land-owner has come to understand that the correct (or at least the politically-correct) thing to do with cut grass is to leave it on the lawn. Our city has been collecting bagged leaves in the fall for as long as I can remember, and they still do. By osmosis, every residential land-owner is aware that raking and bagging leaves is the "natural" thing to do and is supported by a service provided by the city. The big-box stores now have over-sized leaf rakes and leaf bags (paper and clear plastic) visible front and center when you enter, further reinforcing the concept that raking and bagging leaves is normal or natural, if not a beneficial part of turf and property management. Therefore (based on the premise), for everyone anything less than that is an exhibition of some degree of laziness toward that solution. Yes, because as I've described, there are public "cues" that point to leaf raking and bagging as something that's a normal, if not expected part of property management. As well, leaves that accumulate in the gutters and curbs of residential streets are a public nuisance that impedes the dissapation of rain and snow melt until the city cleans them in the spring. Those that rake their leaves onto the road or allow their leaves to collect are negligent and lazy in that regard. If you had said, in my opinion (state premise). Therefore, in my opinion (state conclusion). There's no room to disagree, its your opinion. It's my opinion that (most, many, or all) people would like to have an extra $10 in their pocket right now. Is that an opinion, or fact? Can an opinion never be shown to also be a fact? |
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