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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Your regular trash pick up includes yard waste?!

In Montgomery County yes. Plus the leaf vacuuming if you pile them etc.

They are not trash pick up. They go to recycling

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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."

The richest areas like lake barcroft and sleepy hollow.

The poster who said that Fairfax County has given up was confused, unless they meant that they gave up on discontinuing service. They suggested it last year and the majority of us who live within the leaf collection boundary voted to continue, so they are continuing.

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

Rake/blow into beds or leaf compost piles. Some get shredded but most do not as the leaves host various larvae that are beneficial. And the leaves provide nesting for lots of beneficial bugs like fireflies.

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

+1. It's great fertilizer

We would have a few feet of leaves if we left it. It's that much. Our lawn guy charged us for leaf clean up one year and mulched most of the stuff instead. Everything died, not just the grass but he also killed plants. It was a nightmare. There's a lot of leaves then there really is a lot of leaves.

Nah, you most likely wouldn't. If you rake a little at a time, they compress down. I live next to parkland and guarantee I get more leaves than anyone on this board. And there are a lot, lot, lot of trees and leaves. We use almost all, unshredded, in our beds.

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

+1. It's great fertilizer

We would have a few feet of leaves if we left it. It's that much. Our lawn guy charged us for leaf clean up one year and mulched most of the stuff instead. Everything died, not just the grass but he also killed plants. It was a nightmare. There's a lot of leaves then there really is a lot of leaves.

Nah, you most likely wouldn't. If you rake a little at a time, they compress down. I live next to parkland and guarantee I get more leaves than anyone on this board. And there are a lot, lot, lot of trees and leaves. We use almost all, unshredded, in our beds.

You have competition from us. We paid for four clean ups last year and the amount of leaves was insane. We only called for the clean ups when the leaves were a thick blanket of more than 1/2 foot covering every single space.