Mulch or bag?

[Pipe Line]

I have some leaves, not a ton. Is it worth the time to clean them up so the grass is clean the rest of the year, or is it more productive for the lawn to mow short one more time and mulch them all up?

Day light savings ruined my evening mowing time so it’ll have to wait till the weekend regardless. Yards around me have done both. The two guys with the really nice yards around me have cleaned up their leaves……

 

[Jim14510]

Depends on the trees. Light leaves mulch. Heavy bag or clean up before you mow.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

burn em sumbitch

 

[Pipe Line]

Depends on the trees. Light leaves mulch. Heavy bag or clean up before you mow.

I’ve left them alone for about a week and a half now, a lot of the heavy coverage is gone. Majority is light, already crunched up.

 

[Mavsker]

I usually bag but I like to mulch leaves, it's good for the grass

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I usually bag but I like to mulch leaves, it's good for the grass

#MulchGang lettuce ride

 

[Alcaus]

I have too many leaves to mulch without killing my lawn. Mulch and bag.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

I have too many leaves to mulch without killing my lawn. Mulch and bag.

Oh look at this guy bragging about his luscious leafy trees

 

[Toe]

Mulch, and if there's too much to mulch, compost that shit and spread it in spring.

 

[Pipe Line]

Sounding like mulching this weekend will be the way to go

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Mulch, and if there's too much to mulch, compost that shit and spread it in spring.

Toe is a man of the Earth

 

[Alcaus]

Oh look at this guy bragging about his luscious leafy trees

Two giant oaks... I hate them

 

[Toe]

Toe is a man of the Earth

Now if you really wanna step up your composting game, you can build a bio-reactor. You need at least a cubic yard of material to work with, so that it generates enough heat to break down properly and kill any weed seeds. This should be a mix of nitrogen-rich 'greens' like fresh grass clippings, weeds, and kitchen scraps, and carbon-rich 'browns' like dried leaves, straw, or shredded cardboard.

The bio-reactor design uses a permeable outer container and PVC pipes with holes drilled in them. The goal here is aeration - no spot in the compost pile is more than 12 inches from a source of oxygen. A well-oxygenated compost pile will be dominated by aerobic bacteria and beneficial fungi that help make nutrients available to plants, versus a compost pile that's anaerobic, which doesn't provide as much benefit to plants and tends to stink.

 

[BIGSTICK67]

I have too many leaves to mulch without killing my lawn. Mulch and bag.

This for me as well. In fact, when it gets to this time of year I hire someone to come with giant mowers and either mulch, bag or a combination of that.

On a regular sized lot, I have 9 fully grown trees and probably 15 dogwood shrubs that are probably 5-7 feet high. Leaves literally everywhere and too much to handle by myself.

When the trees were smaller, I mulched until I absolutely had to bag. Then it'd take 2-3 hours to mow when I was bagging everything. Exhausting.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

Mulch...there are still a lot of leaves on my Norway Maples, the Pin Oak holds onto most of it's leaves until close to Spring for some reason. I'll bag once the majority have fallen. But I bag just once.

Would love to compost but I need to look into that more.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Now if you really wanna step up your composting game, you can build a bio-reactor. You need at least a cubic yard of material to work with, so that it generates enough heat to break down properly and kill any weed seeds. This should be a mix of nitrogen-rich 'greens' like fresh grass clippings, weeds, and kitchen scraps, and carbon-rich 'browns' like dried leaves, straw, or shredded cardboard.

The bio-reactor design uses a permeable outer container and PVC pipes with holes drilled in them. The goal here is aeration - no spot in the compost pile is more than 12 inches from a source of oxygen. A well-oxygenated compost pile will be dominated by aerobic bacteria and beneficial fungi that help make nutrients available to plants, versus a compost pile that's anaerobic, which doesn't provide as much benefit to plants and tends to stink.

This is wild

 

[Toe]

This is wild

Didn't think a toe could have a green thumb, eh? 👍

 

[CornHub]

I only have two trees. I mulch them and they turn into a powder. You don't even know there were any leaves other than the ones that get stuck in the grass.

 

[BIG TONE SOPRANO]

Didn't think a toe could have a green thumb, eh? 👍

I never would have guessed a sex crazed maniac would have a green thumb

 

[God is a Husker]

I never would have guessed a sex crazed maniac would have a green thumb

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