Leaf Fall, composting and special offer!

 
I have a huge oak tree and a silver birch, both of which overhang my
back
garden so at this time of year all I spend my time in the garden
doing is
picking up leaves then shoving them in the composter.
Then last week I found a special offer on a leaf blower on a Facebook
page for a
business that sells leaf blowers and vacuums (seddondirect).
What used to take
me a couple of hours now takes only 30 minutes!
For anyone wanting a quicker solution to hand picking leaves at this
time of
year I would seriously recommend this solution and grab
yourselves the discount
by finding the company on Facebook - made it
cheaper for me!




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floss2205

 On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:41:23 +0000, floss2205


Oaks typically hold their leaves until spring.  Birch leaves are
small, thin, drop late, and by then are mere wisps that simply
disappear from the wind.  I never rake leaves, the same one who puts
them there takes them away.

Leaves were about half down yesterday, they'll blow away before the
first snow:
http://i55.tinypic.com/mtkvgn.jpg

  Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:


 My white oaks who are not effected by scorch hold their leaves to early
spring.  The Black and reds are almost all down now.  I rake in /blow in
about another 2 weeks here.  Been known to have piles of leaves about
for kids aka Trick or treaters to stomp thru.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/

 

Here we have Tulip Poplar.

Giant, leaf covered, Tulip Poplar.
Leaves come down like snow when it rains, (like today).

Removing leaves usually spans a period of 5 weekends,
with at least 1 full day devoted to the task.

The lawn services use a combination of back pack blowers
and walk behind blowers.  These can get the leaves to the
curb where they either rake or bring in a vacuum truck.

For stubborn homeowners (like me), the back pack blower
is pretty much required.  A walk behind would help but
I don't have one.  Half the job is getting the piles
of leaves into the back yard for compost.

Right now I'm using a wheeled Rubber Maid 45 gallon
trash can.   I'd like something about twice the size
with a larger opening, but so far I haven't found anything.

 despen@verizon.net writes:


Well, just found one:

http://trashcansunlimited.com/pro1254633.html

$465, wow.