Been mulching leaves all my life. On fresh healthy grass mulch is ok as long as you don't over do it. Covering the grass or simply leaving the leaves on there in a thick layer will reveal no grass in the spring.

The trick is to hit the lawn as often as it takes during leaf season to keep ahead of it. If you don't, you will be forced to bag the chopped leaves after mulching unless you want to resort to raking. If it means twice a day, that's what you do. For you poor devils who are not retired, and considering it will soon be dark when you get home after work, I guess it will be kind of tough. By all means hit it before it rains on the leaves. If you don't, you will be forced to rake.

I live in the woods and have always mulched leaves into the lawn for the past 31 years. Never a problem.

I'll pull weeds out if the beds, throw them onto the lawn and mulch/mow. Surprizingly the weeds don't spread into the grass.

Last year was the first time i mulched the maple and oak leaves into the lawns at my place, and the grass was better looking this summer -better than ever before! Guess it'll get the same treatment this fall.

The oak leaves are the ones that are supposed to be too acidic, so that's good info. I'm going to do this for sure this time, starting today, as they are starting to fall. Even if you miss a few days and they get too thick, mulch them anyway, then raise the deck and bag. This will take off the excess and you can dump the bag in raised beds. I highly recommend a dust mask when working with dry leaves. The dust will raise Hobb with your head even if you're not allergic to it.

try using a snapper hi-vac for this duty-you will be amazed! there is no better machine for this. leaves disapear into dust when using a gator blade.

IÂve been mulching leaves for the last 4 years. I use a gator blade on a LB 10247. If I get behind, I mulch once, then bag. Depending on the weather and my time there has been a few years that IÂve never bagged. Some times I go over the yard 3 times before the leaves are mulched enough to suit me. It took me a while to get used to the look of the chopped up leaves left in the yard.

Mulching leaves along with raising mowing height to 3 Â 3.5, frequent aeration, and rye/fescue over seeding has made our lawn look great with out fertilizer & weed killer and/or sprinkling.