It just doesn't seem right

[Ed62]

Twice now, I've raked the leaves, and had big piles of them. But when I look up at the trees, it doesn't look like they've lost any.

Ed

[crokett]

Tell me about it. I've had a lot fall already but there are a lot more to go on the trees. What I do is ride the mower around and grind them up.

[gad5264]

Raked and bagged 13 bags and 2 cans on Saturday and like yours, the stinking trees still look full.

[cabinetman]

It's one of natures' tricks, a visual implementation of displaced growth.
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[cabinetman]

BTW, you should know better than to look up into a tree:

Birdie birdie in the sky,
dropped a white thing in my eye.

I didn't scream, I didn't cry,
But oh thank goodness cows don't fly.
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[Ed62]

What I do is ride the mower around and grind them up.

I do that with the leaves in the back, but I catch them in a bagger. Then I put them in the compost piles or the garden. The leaves in the front yard get put by the street to be picked up by the county.

Ed

[jackellis]

We don't rake leaves, but I typically have to clean the rain gutters two or three times each winter season. Combination of live oak leaves, acorns and redwood needles on stems. I decided too late that the roof needed sweeping. Once things get wet, I don't do roofs.

[LinuxRandal]

Going to have to start raking today. One neighbors trees (two elms and two tree of heaven's or Sumac as a friend recently told me they were called), grow on his side of the property line, but diagonally over mine (I get all the c@@p). The other side, has a hill in front and two 50+ year old tree's (Pin Oak and Silver Maple), that the people that have lived there since the late 70's (owners/renters etc), just get them so they blow into my yard.

I once tried the mulch bit (although the Oak (most leaves) don't break up easily), and ended up with two 6'+ tall piles (yard is around 5000 sq ft). After the city started trying to push the clean water/storm water thing, I asked them when they were going to fix the drain that the neighbor had driven over until it caved in (showed them location and everything). We have about 20 feet of working storm sewers on this block, so I just rake them out into the street now (can't burn, costs to dispose of stuff that is intentionally put where it blows on me).

Can you guess I hate this time of year?

[twistsol]

All the trees in our yard (black walnut, oak and maple) have been naked for a month. We just mulch them with the riding mower.

My mother in law lives less than two miles away and she's hardly had any leaves fall at all. Hers are mostly elm and boxelder. We'll go rake them up and take them to the compost site after the jerk next door blows all of his leaves into her yard anyway.

[TB Roye]

My trees haven't really started yet, but my backyard neighbor's trees have and they are in my back yard. We have had a bunch of rain since Friday so Thursday or Friday after things dry up a bit I will have to blow/rake them up and put them out front. Did clean the gutters last Thrusday so they are ok for now will have to do it 2 or 3 more times once the leaves really start to fall.

Tom