i have leaves covering my lawn, i was wondering what is the best way to utilize them?
2006-10-28 04:59:21 · 11 answers · asked by awmj4 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
i always use the leafblower to blow them in the neighbors yard
2006-10-29 22:18:36 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run them over with a lawn mower to facilitate faster breakdown; take the semi-chopped leaves and spread them as a mulch in the garden, especially over roses and other tender perennials. Just a tip: do the shredding in the milder days of fall; do the MULCHING after the ground has frozen somewhat. The reason for this is that mice and other creatures are looking for nesting places now, and if you pile on leaves, you have provided them with a place to live around your house. If you hang on to this material, stored in a rodent-proof manner (in plastic garbage pails, for example), they have no way of getting to it, and you spread it out once it gets cold out. By then, they have found other places to nest, and your plants have experienced the direct cold so that they are safely into dormancy without chance of a false insulation from an early blanket of mulch that could also house rodents that eat those plants. If you have an open area of garden where you plant tomatoes and such, you could spread this out now, thinly, to keep down erosion and amend the soil. If you don't have the time to mulch later, do so now, but leave a depression around the roses and such, for the above reasons, then gather it around them after cold weather, while checking for rodents. Good luck.
2006-10-28 05:24:01 · answer #2 · answered by steviewag 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly in the event that they're the large o.ok.leaves those dont do stable. What you quite ought to get is a few hay or skinny pine needle to hide down and new grass/seed. the clarification why you do no longer choose vast leaves (exceedingly a large volume) on your backyard is they entice pests, might reason the grass to be stunted in strengthen fairly and that they are often a multitude and tougher to stroll threw than a clean backyard.
2016-12-28 07:09:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can go to your local gardening shop and by a compost bucket. The look like a small cement mixer and you place leaves, gardening scraps,etc in this bucket and turn it upside down, or as directed, and make your own compost. In my town, we can get these free from our dept. of sanitation. Maybe your town has something similar. Maybe you could start a community project with cooperation from the city to provide these to the residents.
2006-10-28 05:21:33 · answer #4 · answered by US Lisa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run over them with a lawn mower, and leave them there.
They are a worm's favorite food...the worms will aerate your lawn like no other chemical or fertilizer can, your soil will be a rich black color in a few short years.
2006-10-28 17:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by The Grand Wizard 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to utilize them, run them over with the lawn mower and make a compost pile. I bag mine and the city hauls them away.
2006-10-28 05:01:56 · answer #6 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could put them in "Hallowe'en" bags for decoration. After Hallowe'en, you could compost them or leave the bags at the curb for the garbage guys to pick up.
2006-10-28 07:09:14 · answer #7 · answered by rebosgg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a leaf vac that works great at cleaning up my yard.
2006-10-28 05:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by revchrist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could rake them up and deposit them back into your garden for mulching purposes.
2006-10-28 17:31:06 · answer #9 · answered by jammer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
burn em,or push them into the street and the city will sweep em away at some point.
2006-10-28 05:11:18 · answer #10 · answered by aries4272 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋