If your yard has a lot of leaves, what is your fall clean up process?

[Anonymous]

If you don't hire out what have you found is the best way to clean them up?

[Anonymous]

Rake and leaf blow to the street

[Anonymous]

One option is to mulch them when you mow (no bagging, mow, light raking to spread, then crossing pattern from first round of mowing, water) option two is blow to street option three is to skip a workout and rake them?

[Anonymous]

My husband just mows and sucks them up in the lawn mower bag. That's it. We have some fall behind our garage where there isn't grass to mow and once toward the end of the season we rake those up, but it is a small area and takes no time at all. So yeah, our strategy is to just mow most of them up.

[Anonymous]

Blow/rake them into a pile, mow over it a few times, then either just leave it or shovel/rake them into a bed of shrubs.

This is a good compromise for me. I don’t have room to compost nor a big enough lot to really “leave the leaves” intact for bugs and such. But mowing over them reduces the volume by a shocking amount so it’s very manageable and it makes a nice mulch.

[Anonymous]

I just rake them into piles and let them decompose over winter.

[Anonymous]

Rake every other day in a leaf pile. Leave leaf pile to compost

[Anonymous]

I mow, mulch, and collect in the mower bag. Then I spread chopped the leaves in my garden beds instead of using mulch.

[Anonymous]

I blow them off of the drive way to the yard. My husband mows over them (mulching) and we leave them on the grass.

We don't bag our lawn clippings ever. That may mean we are mowing the leaves once a week. We don't go low enough to bother the grass.

I leave the ones in the flower beds to rest until spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

....then what happens....?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

....then what happens....?

end up in neighbor's yard. problem solved

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

....then what happens....?

If you live in Rockville (city limits) they send a truck around to suck them up.

[Anonymous]

Rake up a big enough pile to fill the composter and then rake the rest to the edges to kind of "mulch" the beds along the perimeter.

[Anonymous]

We do not rake until spring. We never rake our front yard.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/raking-leaves.html

At the tail end of winter, we HAVE to rake up the gum balls (from the Sweet Gum Trees) that fell so the kids can play in the yard. We have an area of brush in the backyard and we rake the leaves that come up with the gumballs over there. Last year my husband did it with our teen and a teen neighbor across the street (paid both teens) and I expect they'll do it the same this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

....then what happens....?

they get wet and cause issues for pedestrians, cyclists, and cars. leaves should stay where they are unless on sidewalks, driveways, and streets.