First fall/winter at my house with a yard that’s just under 1 acre. I bought a nice gas backpack leaf blower which has been a huge upgrade from what I previously used. My problem now is how to get rid of all the leaves – can anyone recommend a method that isn’t a $1000 leaf vacuum? TIA
by AJRx24
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Get a mower with mulching blades and shred it.
Mulch it
When I was a kid we burned them. Probably isn’t legal these days.
Use the fancy leaf blower to spread them out again, then mulch with your mower.
Blow them further into the wooded area…
Burn them, if you can do so responsibly and safely with a hose to control it.
Scatter them and mulch them thoroughly 3-5x.
Bag them and curse them.
“Blow to woods”
Fire
Saw a neat trick. This guy got a large 55gallon drum or trashcan filled with leaves and put a weedeater inside and essentially mulched them down
I think we found a good solution, but it can be a lot of work. I blow everything into the yard, bag it into mulch (usually it’s thick enough that the yard still gets a decent amount) and then we use it in our flower and vegetable gardens, if you have those. Natural compost for the soil and offers insulation/weed control for the winter and spring, especially if you have buried bulbs.
Blow to woods, burn them, mulch them, bag them, or just leave them. All are viable options. Do what you want to do with
Compost.
If you have to condense them instead of what other suggested, try this method https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mG1juRspl4o
The woods boss, the woods, send them to where they belong considering you have a leaf blower
I’ve mower throught piles that big and twice as long with a ztrack with a mulching blade, 2-3 passes and its confetti.
Blow them into the woods or spread that pile out and mulch them up.
I can lend you my dog. She will make short work of that pile.
Nice woods you got back there…
$1000 chipper / shredder. You have enough trees that you may want a chipper anyway. I mulch my leaves into my lawn until they get too thick. Then I collect the leaves and run them into the hopper on my chipper to shred them. I then put the mulched leaves on my landscaping beds. Great nutrients for the trees and plants, plus adds some color to the beds for winter.
I’d blow em into the woods, since you got them piled up already, you could rake and tarp them up and then drag that to the woods, or duke it out using the blower to push the pile into the woods.
Spread them out and run over them with the mower to mulch them. Or looks like you have some woods behind you. Just dump them there.
A couple of options, you can burn them. Chop them up with a mower or blow them into the woods.
I like to dig a hole, toss the leaves in, cover the hole. I put all kinds of things in this hole = leaves, xmas trees, grass clippings, garden scraps. The hole makes short work of anything, and I get some super high quality soil from it that I use in the garden to rejuvenate the soil between harvests. It’s so easy and saves $ instead of buying soil for my garden.
OK so I suppose I’ll offer the obvious suggestion- blow them into the woods.
It’s worked for me for decades
Don’t blow. Mow
Run a mower over it and chop it up. It’ll be nothing in no time. Wear a mask as it’s going to be dusty.
I see a forest in the background that would love them.
Just make a pile in a back corner of your lot and make some rich soil. Worms will find the leaves
I compost mine, then next summer add the soil to garden beds
Start a compost pile
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Just spread it back out and run it over with a lawn mower. You’re removing sweet sweet nitrogen.
You have an acre. Surely you can find a place for a compost pile?
Burn or mulch
