people who don't rake their [expletive] yards

[cardinalkarp]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

[JCShutout]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

Good point. Wouldn't a mower of a low setting take care of this?

[cardinalkarp]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

Good point. Wouldn't a mower of a low setting take care of this?

Not w/ the amount of leaves we had, I'm sure if you only have a couple average sized trees you'd be fine doing that.

[JCShutout]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

Good point. Wouldn't a mower of a low setting take care of this?

Not w/ the amount of leaves we had, I'm sure if you only have a couple average sized trees you'd be fine doing that.

Maybe I've been in the city too long, but I can't imagine many yards with so many trees that raking would be a huge deal. When I grew up in the suburbs, we had a couple trees in the yard to soak up rain water, and a long set (2 or 3 trees deep) of pine trees between our house and the house behind us.

[cardinalkarp]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

Good point. Wouldn't a mower of a low setting take care of this?

Not w/ the amount of leaves we had, I'm sure if you only have a couple average sized trees you'd be fine doing that.

Maybe I've been in the city too long, but I can't imagine many yards with so many trees that raking would be a huge deal. When I grew up in the suburbs, we had a couple trees in the yard to soak up rain water, and a long set (2 or 3 trees deep) of pine trees between our house and the house behind us.

The house I rented in Maryland Heights had about a 50ft pine tree in the front yard that would have tons of needles and in the back yard there was 3 trees that had to be close to 60-70 ft tall. They were huge.

[JCShutout]

Oh yeah, now I remember all the pine needles. We never had to rake them because the pine tree area was kind of a privacy area. There was a bunch of misc random plants all over the place, and the more crap obstructing the view between each house the better I guess.

But yeah, now I remember how many needles were always on the ground. That would suck to rake.

[Hungary Jack]

I don't see much of a point unless you're looking for free mulch (then it makes perfect sense). Sure, grass needs sunlight, but decomposing leaves give nutrients to the grass to IIRC.

Maybe mulched up leaves that can decompose fairly quickly but when you have full leaves covering your yard it smothers the grass (or at least mine) and completely killed it.

Good point. Wouldn't a mower of a low setting take care of this?

Generally yes. But to truly mulch the leaves you need to run through them several times until the leaves are ground up, and then you use the bagger to collect the mulch. I actually have been doing this with a battery-powered mower, but I only have a few large trees to deal with in my 25x100 lot in the city.

[M1IRONMIKE]

i don't rake leaves but my snow plow converts into a leaves raker every fall

[Fat_Bulldog]

I don't rake my leaves either.

I let them blow into my neighbors yard and then have a bbq and drink beer while I watch my neighbor rake his yard.

[omaha_red]

I don't rake my leaves either.

I let them blow into my neighbors yard and then have a bbq and drink beer while I watch my neighbor rake his yard.

apparentely everyone in america does this but me.. bastards