The less glamorous side of lawn care; investing time now to give the lawn a day or two of sunlight before the next dump of leaves smoother it!
This lawn suffered heavily over the dry summer and hose pipe ban in Southern England. A prolific spread of crab grass which was growing from a deep thatch layer meant that a heavy scarify left some huge bare patches. Overseeding in September was quite successful in filling the gaps, but quite late in the season, so I’m doing all I can to help it ok its way into winter.
by you_are_nice
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Works like a charm – we have the same problem: https://amzn.eu/d/gnncBmG
Why don’t you just mulch the leaves? Even if there’s a decent pile up of leaves, you could mulch everything and then run over it again with a bagger. it’s always made more sense to me.
Dude just mulch all of them
Mulch them!
Mulch them or buy a leaf lower
Mulching leaves helps grass
Mulching them is a good soil amendment and fertilizer, mild as it is. Ive got a less than ideal section of lawn. Ive mulched an insane amount of leaves. It looks ugly, but come spring you wouldn’t know the difference.
Is your mower broken
Wasting free fertilizer
Boo!! Mulch em! (It’s better for your soil and MUCH easier to just run a lawnmower over them 1-2x).
Leave the leaves!!! Good for the ecosystem
Mulching mower is your friend here.
Don’t you wish it went that fast… still satisfying nonetheless
Lots of people saying to just mulch them. Do you mean mulch them in place and leave on the lawn? 2 reasons I don’t do this: I feel like they would still smother the lawn and stop it getting sunlight, and also the hidden dog laid landmines!
I do pile them over the fence, let them rot down, then add to the flower beds.
Can’t have that pesky organic matter being added to MY soil!!
My compost pile would love those leaves!
That’s cute! This is like the first 3 days of fall, then the dump comes and its feet of leaves. Great looking yard by the way!
Life is so hard in the UK.
I feel you. I just raked my leaves this morning. Leaf cleanup comes on Monday. Just my small front yard, though. Backyard I mulch and bag them and save them for spring gardening.
Leaf blower?
Lawn mower?
Upstate NY here. While turning leaves is my favorite time of the year for multiple reasons having to deal with them is a nightmare. Luckily I live on a hill that’s really windy and isn’t too many of them on property so they just blow away.
He’s in the UK. Brits can’t afford mowers with all their money going to foreigner’s
You not mowing this hurt my feelings
I’m going out to mow mine right now.
I’m not sure if anyone has told you yet, but mulching is much easier.
Mulch em. I just got done with a double pass, after this recent rain / wind storm we had in the northeast. I see some leaf specs, but for the most part they’re mulched and gone. The key is to keep up with them and just keep mulching. Mow 1 extra time a week if you can
Lmfao