Is there a reason for bagging leaves in plastic?

[Anonymous]

It seems ignorant, but maybe I'm missing something.

[Anonymous]

So they don't fall out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So they don't fall out

Fold over the top of a biodegradable paper bag?

[Anonymous]

Just blow them into the street with a leaf blower

[Anonymous]

Why I love curbside vacuum collection.

The biodegradable paper bags can be a pain to use. I still use them, but can see how some people would get annoyed especially if they don't believe in "all that environmental junk talk". (Note - that's not me. We even use a composter.)

[Anonymous]

I've always wondered about this.
Do the lawn waste places remove the bags before the leaves get composted?

[Anonymous]

I don't put my leaves in bags or blow them to the curb. I mow over them so the little pieces just naturally compost into the soil over the winter. When they are at their thickest in mid-autumn, I use the bagger on my mower and form a compost heap for them at the back corner of our yard. By next fall, I have great compost which I spread on my flower beds.

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

plastic is cheap. Those brown paper bags are like $1 each and you need a lot for leaves.

I have a green trashcan that I fill with leaves. The yard waste collection men pick it up just fine and it's reusable.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

We mow our leaves in as much as possible. But when it's all oak and a lot of them (6 trees!) and they all fall down at the same time that's too much acid for the ground to take all at once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

We mow our leaves in as much as possible. But when it's all oak and a lot of them (6 trees!) and they all fall down at the same time that's too much acid for the ground to take all at once.

You can always add a little lime to your soil. Also, so much of our soil around here is so clay-ey, that the acid in the oak leaves won't hurt it. Organic matter is just good for the soil.

When our leaves are really thick, we use the mower bagger to pick them up and then dump them in a compost pile. They compost more quickly because of being broken up by the mulching mower blades.

[Anonymous]

Why are the leaf paper bags so expensive??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are the leaf paper bags so expensive??

Really cheap at club stores FYI.

I think VA being historically blue state could "give two" about the environment. They just burn the stuff up in FC I think.