leaf bags

[Pam]

We can use leaf bags here or wait for the curbside pick-up with a huge machine that sucks them up. The only problem is that it comes only once a month and if you put your leaves to the curb and need that space to park there is no room for the car! My back yard backs up to woods. We get tons of leaves as we have 7 mature trees in the back yard and we get all of the leaves from the woods which blow into the yard as well. We load our leaves from the backyard into a wheelbarrow, after blowing them into a huge pile, and cart them off into the woods. It is still back breaking work but at least we don't have to bag them all and cart them off to the front of the house.

Barry do you use a leaf blower or do you rake?

[Karen]

I love our leaf-blower/leaf vac as it mulches as I vac up the leaves, so what would normally be 8 bags comes down to 2! Like Pam, our yard backs up to woods, and we have trees in our yeard and the neighbors as well, so we get plenty of leaves, and there are still plenty on the trees! Our autumn is a couple weeks behind normal this year, probably because we had drought in August-October.

[IRescue452]

Other than the leaves we rake over the garden for winter, we mow our leaves over and leave the rest to nature. Most people here just rake the piles to the curb and a big vacuum-like truck comes and sucks them up.
You can't see them once it snows anyway.

[sparks19]

I am so glad they do it differently here....

We just rake or blow them into piles on the curb and a big machine comes by once a week and sucks them up

[K9karen]

WOW! That's the only reason I hate this time of year. It's beautiful but messy. I had over 30 bags after the bushes were trimmed. Haven't even started the leave clean up yet. They're all from our neighbors yards so we're waiting until more fall since it's been wet and windy here.Can't wait.

Growing up decades ago, we were able to burn the leaves. But now we HAVE to use brown bags for recycling. Luckily if we miss the curb pick up date, the recycling plant is only a few blocks away so I can take them there myself.

[IRescue452]

What's all the hubbub about leaves anyway? Everybody in our neighborhood, with the exception of a few picky people, lets their yard be as close to natural as possible, no chemicals, no fertilizers, no fancy grass seed, no worry about leaves. And for that, we have the greenest, prettiest yards come summer.

[cassiesmom]

Most everyone around here rakes them up close to the curb, and then the village comes along with the vacuum cleaner thingie and slurps them up. Can't burn them. One good rake-up is about all we get, the rest stay on the grass beneath the snow.