Is there a reason for bagging leaves in plastic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because you and your spouse were arguing about how many paper leaf bags to get, and you lost, so now you only have a few paper bag for a bazillion leaves. And, it's Sunday and the closest store that sells leaf bags is closed, which you know because you walked there because your spouse insisted that they would be open and that you really should get more exercise. And there is no way you are getting in the car and driving to home depot to fight the crowds on Sunday, and the leaves must be raked TODAY because you've been putting it off for months and the neighbors already hate you.

And that is why you use black plastic contractor bags for your leaves.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Leaves are a great source of natural compost and just good stuff for the soil. Why give it away?

Most of the leaves in our yard blow in from other people's yards. I mow the few leaves that end up on the lawn, but we have tons of leaves in the driveway and in beds. It's much easier to rake/blow those down to the street than to rake/blow them onto the grass and mow the grass again.

You lose the benefits when you let someone else take them away.

I don't understand people who have all their leaves hauled away in the fall and then buy bags and bags of compost in the spring. They could have had a lot of compost for free by simply mowing over their leaves in the fall.

Fairfax County collects it, turn it into compost then brings it back to several top off points. Love it.