2006-11-23 02:33:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
We have massive oak & ash trees & lots of hawthorns & fruit trees as well - a petrol powered lawn vaccuum that chops & picks them up in a bag is great - we put ours into a wire mesh cage and they compost down into the best leaf mould ever - wonderful for the flower beds. Also has a blow option so you can blow them into your neighbours garden if you don't like them and they can have the problem...!?!
2006-11-23 07:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by Steel Lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The oak trees sound great, but those poplars are a royal pain. I hate to see any trees be cut down, however, so try and live with them. If there has to be some hard choices made, take out the poplars and leave the oaks.
Depending on how big your lot or property is, simply turn the leaves back into the soil or rake them into piles and allow them to compost. You can speed up the process of composting by shreeding the leaves to reduce volume and increase surface area to soil and air bacteria.
If I lived next door to you, I'd gladly relieve you of all your woes by collecting your leaf mess and rototilling it into my vegetable garden for the winter. I'd include some "hot" organic fertilizer (like chicken dropping) in with the mix and let it all cook. By spring, I'd have dark, loamy soil with lots of worms and beneficialy bacteria ready for planting.
2006-11-23 03:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by SafetyDancer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is ap? If you are asking about getting the leaves up..then use a lawnmower to mulch them. Or use a lawnmower with a bag. Dump the bags of chopped leaves in a corner of yard. Keep it wet and turn it over now and then. That way you will create your own mulch and have earthworms. Earthworms are good for the yard. Whatever you do ....please don't cut any trees down. The Earth is heating up and we need all the trees.
2006-11-23 02:49:53 · answer #3 · answered by 100yroldtree 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Combine the acid leaves together with the doggie doo and compost them in a pile do not mix with your normal garden compost.
The acids of the doo will mix with the acids of the oak and both will break down faster, once decomposted for a year or two it might be better then put it in with your regular compost of organics for our garden for a year and it is then good nutrients to be spread over your garden.
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2006-11-23 02:59:49 · answer #4 · answered by old_brain 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We gather our leaves in black bin bags, tie the top and make a few holes with a knife in the sides, then heap the bags at the bottom of the garden. They turn into good mulch after a while.
2006-11-23 04:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope thank you but I know that in my next life I will be a lot better off than if I accepted his offer. I'll stay where I am till My Lord, Father of all creation is ready for me to come up and join him.
2016-03-29 06:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy a garden hoover to hoover them up. Store them in black dustbin backs with holes pierced in them. Next year you will have some nice leaf mould for the garden.
2006-11-24 05:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by Sandee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just kept mowing over them until they were pulverized good, now they just go into the ground as mulch. If we ever get any snow to go on top of them.
2006-11-23 02:38:26 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learn to live with them they where there before you moved in I presume as you lost the end of your question
2006-11-23 02:41:35 · answer #9 · answered by GLYN D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We lost the end of your question
2006-11-23 02:37:30 · answer #10 · answered by Scottish Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋