Fall lawn care.

[flippinout]

Taking care of your lawn can be tedious sometimes and fall is one of those times. There are so many leaves to be raked up.

I myself don't rake the leaves from my yard. There are just to many to begin with and then there is the matter of the leaves from the neighbors yard.

If you are someone who rakes your leaves you know what I am saying. You spend all that time raking them just to have the leaves from the neighbors yard blowing back into yours.

Leaves should be removed from driveways and walkways but otherwise I believe in letting them lie where they fall. They are a great source of nutrition for your yard.

Most people rake them up and bag them or they burn them up. I think that if you are going to take the time to rake them up you should be environmentally responsible and mulch them back into use.

Most people spend money on fertilizers to spread on their yard in the spring. Why waste the money when mother nature is already providing her own fertilizer?

[House on the Prairie]

Aaaahhh, I love the case for procrastination.

I actually like raking leaves, if the truth must be told. I love how they smell and the sound the rake makes when it combs the grass. I just don't have time to rake while three little munchkins follow me around and crash threw my nice piles.

I have a very ambitious neighbor who blows leaves out of her yard almost every day. So much, in fact, that my three-year-old calls every person using a portable blower my neighbor's name. Now, my neighbor is very considerate--she blows the leaves onto a big pile in her yard and then mows them into mulch that she puts around her shrubs and trees. Her neighbors never have to worry about "leaf transfer".

Occasionally she gets board (or irritated, but she's too nice to say so), and she blows my driveway and yard, too. (Did I mention she's ambitious? And also my hero?). It costs me a plate of cookies that I bake out of gratefulness and guilt (but they are delicious). And it's worth it.

You can't pick your family and you can't pick your neighbors, but I don't think I could have picked a better match in both respects. Here's hoping for strong winds!

[flip_it_fast]

I agree with you. A small compost bin isn't that hard to create and it only needs to take up a section of yard about 3X3. Not much is actually needed.

I do not rake the leaves up at my house either. I live between two hillsides with like a zillion trees. It would take me forever to do that. I just leave where they lay.