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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fairfax County has given up:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/leaf-collection-dates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

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

You look like the lazy slob who left a huge pile of leaves get wet and moldy to block the street or even worse the fool who let them blow into your neighbors yard who had properly bagged theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rake and leaf blow to the street

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

You look like the lazy slob who left a huge pile of leaves get wet and moldy to block the street or even worse the fool who let them blow into your neighbors yard who had properly bagged theirs.

they can bag some more

[Anonymous]

Just mow over it, on the mulch setting. This stuff breaks down easily.

[Anonymous]

I mow over them with the lawnmower, then either spread them in my backyard garden beds or put them in my composter.

Most of my neighbors mow over them and then bag that and put it at the curb for the yard waste trucks to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the obsession with removing all the leaves, aside from walkways. I keep the front fairy clear due to the sidewalk and front steps. I put those leaves in two compost bins, where they decompose over winter. I leave the leaves on my garden beds and in my back yard.

Leaves are part of nature's cycle. They improve soil and are necessary for pollinators to overwinter.

There's one guy in my neighborhood who is out with his super loud leaf blower for several months each year -- pretty much every time I go by. Super obsessive about having a completely leaf-free lawn. Seems very Type A and controlling.

[Anonymous]

I mow the ones on the lawn (no bag, mulching blade) and blow the ones from the sidewalk onto my lawn, then mow them there.

[Anonymous]

We mow and then put them in bags for weekly pick up. We have way too many leaves to just leave it on the lawn or in the garden as mulch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the obsession with removing all the leaves, aside from walkways. I keep the front fairy clear due to the sidewalk and front steps. I put those leaves in two compost bins, where they decompose over winter. I leave the leaves on my garden beds and in my back yard.

Leaves are part of nature's cycle. They improve soil and are necessary for pollinators to overwinter.

There's one guy in my neighborhood who is out with his super loud leaf blower for several months each year -- pretty much every time I go by. Super obsessive about having a completely leaf-free lawn. Seems very Type A and controlling.

Same. Crazy gonna crazy.

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised so many of you still dispose of your leaves. As pp said above, leaves are a great natural mulch and also habitat for a whole bunch of important native bugs and other animals. Why not be lazy?

We have all garden now, no lawn, but if you’re worried about your lawn you can rake them off and let them peacefully decompose on your beds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just mow over it, on the mulch setting. This stuff breaks down easily.

+1. It's great fertilizer

[Anonymous]

MoCo does leaf collection twice a season. Yiu just need to rake the leaves into a pile on your curb (not the road).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fairfax County has given up:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/publicworks/recycling-trash/leaf-collection-dates

Only 5% of FFX Co. residents had this option. I've lived here almost 30 years and still don't know who those lucky 5% are.


"Fairfax County will continue to vacuum leaves for the 5% of county residences, approximately 25,000 households, that currently receive the service."

[Anonymous]

Fwiw I don’t have a mulching setting or a mulching blade and my my little battery lawn mower works great as long as leaves are fairly dry. In case anyone thinks they don’t have the right equipment.