If your yard has a lot of leaves, what is your fall clean up process?
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Anonymous
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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
+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
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. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| We have a leaf vac. DH vacs up the leaves and then we spread the shredded leaves on our garden beds. Once the those are all mulched we put the excess on the curb and the City of Fairfax runs leaf collection from 11/1-12/30 every year. |
Anonymous
| They all just blow away eventually. |
Anonymous
It depends on the tree species too for sure. Some of them break down fast, others not so much. As far as mulch I think if they’re shredded they do okay, but there are definitely perennials and reseeding annuals that won’t like it. If you want to “leave the leaves” for real you have to tend towards a woodland garden. |
Anonymous
Yes I think there is a certain amount that you can not do this with. I mow/mulch in the beginning but they switch to raking to the curb (Thanks Rockville). We leave the areas around the shrubs etc till spring but then they still need to be raked out. They do not break down. We have many big trees in our yard and surrounding yards. |
Anonymous
No they have not...from your own link. County staff has postponed a formal proposal to discontinue vacuum leaf service after the 2023-2024 season. After conducting an online survey in August 2023 for the public to solicit input on the staff proposal, results revealed that most residents who receive the service wish to keep it. As a result, the proposal, which was submitted to the Board of Supervisors in September 2023 has been postponed. |
Anonymous
The richest areas like lake barcroft and sleepy hollow. |
Anonymous
Your regular trash pick up includes yard waste?! |
Anonymous
| Parts of Montgomery County have leaf vacuum service--you make a huge pile in your front yard close to the curb and they come get them (I'm in Silver Spring) |
Anonymous
In Montgomery County yes. Plus the leaf vacuuming if you pile them etc. |