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Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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Posted by kentstar 5b, NE Ohio (My Page) on Mon, Nov 16, 09 at 10:22
I have been working on it for a while now lol. I have to use on of those leaf blower/shredders. I finally have (I hope) enough leaves for the winter. I have 6 big black bags full of nicely shredded already to go leaves. I have a small yard, so I'm sure most of you have a lot more! How much leaves do you collect for your garden? Truckloads? lol
Now, my neighbors really think I'm certified! lol They just have no clue, absolutely no clue, how great leaves are for gardens and lawns. |
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RE: Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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| Congratulations! I want every bag of leaves I see on the curb, but having a small suburban back yard I probably have all I can handle. I have wanted a leaf shredder for a long time but my shredder is an old fashioned lawn mower, the kind that is people-powered, which I mow back & forth over the leaves dumped on the patio & then scoop them back into bags with the snow shovel. Necessity is the mother of invention & I am the aunt, I guess. Any way, it is more labor intensive but at least I feel like I'm burning a lot of calories when I do it. |
RE: Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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| Yes, Leaves are wonderful......I have been driving by bags and bags and bags of leaves on the side of the road for 2 weeks now. My husband picked up 26 very large bags from the side of the road, and I am seeing more and more,,,but I have enough. I have about 38 bags full now. I still hate to drive by them without picking them up. If I knew I had enough greens to mix with them, I would pick them all up. |
RE: Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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And one shredded bag is about the same as four whole leaf bags.
Good job. |
RE: Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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Well, then I have something like 24 whole leaf bags! Cool! I'm sure I'll find plenty of use for them, if the neighbors don't want them lol.
Mowing the leaves is also a wonderful way to shred them. A lot of people do it that way. Good job! A lot of the leaves I got were shredded already by a mower (the neighbors blow them across the street and the park manager runs them over with his big ride on mower, that leaves me to go back and collect them up already shredded lol! |
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| We have been mulch mowing the leaves from the trees growing in the church lawn for about 10 years now and we still have people that try to tell us, including a couple that have worked at doing that, that we will kill the grass even though every year since we started the grass has grown greener, thicker, and faster. When growing conditions are good, not too hot and dry, the grass now grows fast enough that we really need to cut it more than once a week because it is too tall for a once a week cutting, and the mower deck cannot be set any higher. |
RE: Finally got all my shredded leaves ready! I think...
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flowersnhens, you don't have to have greens:
left to their own devices, autumn leaves will decay & turn into sweet-smelling leaf mold, a wonderful amendment & insulation for your soil. "Necessity is the mother of invention & I am the aunt" Yay! |
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