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[quote=Anonymous]Traditionally lawns were for the very wealthy, but everyone needed some sort of “clearing” to keep the woods and the wilderness at bay, and a certain distance from their house. Pa Ingalls certainly would have maintained that around the Little House In The Big Woods. So I’m dumbfounded that people are linking articles about how we should refrain from clearing dead leaves so that we might provide “shelter” for animals. That’s precisely what we want to avoid! Mice and rats, and the serpents who prey on them, need to make their shelters away from my lawn. If you never clear the leaves, then eventually the woods will move into your foundation. That said, depending on how many leaves we have, I will often run the mower over them to mulch some into the ground before clearing out the excess with the blower.[/quote]
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