DD
SoWal Expert
...omg, I knew you were going to say that. You must really hate it when the wind blows those magnolia leaves around!!!
That's the thing...they're so freakin' HEAVY that they don't blow much. They just sit around not rotting. :angry:
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What to do withleaves?
- Thread starter elgordoboy
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That's the thing...they're so freakin' HEAVY that they don't blow much. They just sit around not rotting. :angry:
elgordoboy
Beach Fanatic
It's really a lot of leaves. I am not trying to be deliberately hardheaded..I just can't get my mind around the alternative methods. I'll put them in my truck bed and make the 20 or 30 trips to a single destination along 30A with them for any one that wants to compost themYou can still do what NoHall says. A leaf blower with a vacuum on it--sucking not blowing--will chomp the leaves in no time flat and you can use them to enrich your soil. Leaves are too good to waste. Don't send them to the trash man!!
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Miss Kitty
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DD
SoWal Expert
It's really a lot of leaves. I am not trying to be deliberately hardheaded..I just can't get my mind around the alternative methods. I'll put them in my truck bed and make the 20 or 30 trips to a single destination along 30A with them for any one that wants to compost them
Ah ha! The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. That's understandable when you have as many leaves as you do. But can you do a token load of chopped up leaves to make NoHall and me happy?
elgordoboy
Beach Fanatic
Most definitely..I want a garden soon anyway but really isn't that very difficult in this sand? I can't really call what I have soilAh ha! The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. That's understandable when you have as many leaves as you do. But can you do a token load of chopped up leaves to make NoHall and me happy?
though I suppose if I started now with the leaves I'd be black and loamy in 2018. And yeah the flesh is very weak laziness is very tiresome.
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
And not to make mention of all that lovely nitrogen feeding the soil.
I already said that. Gah. (Just teasing...
)Why is that simpler?It's really a lot of leaves. I am not trying to be deliberately hardheaded..I just can't get my mind around the alternative methods. I'll put them in my truck bed and make the 20 or 30 trips to a single destination along 30A with them for any one that wants to compost them
For the record, I'm always being deliberately hardheaded.
As a (hopefully) retiring gardener, here's my real-life recommendation: I have a client who has more leaves than the Smokey Mountains National Forest. I'm pretty sure that every leaf in Gainesville lands somewhere in his yard. I've already been there twice this month, and each time I left a pile on the curb that was 25' long, as high as my waist, and at least 5' wide. Those were the leaves that came out of the tops of the bushes, off his patio, driveway and very small lawn.
We leave (no pun intended) the rest of them--the ones that are beneath the bushes and under the trees. We'll put a layer of pine straw over them in early January.
In summary, all I'm saying is to not strip your beds down to bare dirt. Leave a nice little layer of leaves to hold in moisture, build up your soil, and suppress weeds, and get rid of the rest if it makes you happy. I can't really scold you for it--my sweet father comes and takes care of my leaves for me. (He mulches them and puts them in his vegetable garden and in my beds.)
Poor elgordoboy--all we've done is wag our fingers. Did you figure out whether to bag or not? Around here, the city doesn't require bags during leaf season (until mid-January) but asks us to bag leaves the rest of the year. They'll usually pick them up either way, though, unless they're overloaded with the aftermath of ice storms or tornadoes.
NoHall
hmmmm......can't remember
Most definitely..I want a garden soon anyway but really isn't that very difficult in this sand? I can't really call what I have soil
Your sandy soil is all the more reason to mix in organic material.
I gotta shut up and go to bed.