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I leave them for the worms to pull underground where they do most good. I rake leaves from my posh lawn and leave them where they fall on the wild flower lawns. Those that I rake, I mix in with the compost. It adds bulk and leaves are a much better soil conditioner than garden centre peat which has been raped from Irish peat bogs.

Its all so simple really. Follow nature's way every time.

 

I still haven't got many leaves..... but it's an improvement on last year when I didn't have anything at all!
I agree with HB - posh areas, pick up the leaves, other areas, don't. I use a lawn mower as shredder and vacuum too - but have to admit to using one of those blowy things, but as a vaccuum and shredder, when the leaves aren't accessible enough, but have to be got rid of, as that's what the customer wants.... I try to educate them all, but it takes time - little by little! :rolleyes:

 

I spend six hours a day blowing leaves at the moment.Thats why I didn't enter last months photo competion(Im sick looking at them!)
Hornbeam the point of them is that they are a dammed sight quicker than a brush and shovel.Once I have them off the driveways and slopes and away from the hedges and trees I lift them with the ride-on and dump them in a large pile round the back of the school.
Stingo Iv'e got some really thick hedges so where I can I blow as many as possible in below them for the worms (of course )

 

Dont get me wrong Hornbeam there is a lot of destruction of Irish peat bogs ,but about 50% of "Irish peat" is now imported .Its transported from the docks in Belfast to be packed and straight back to Belfast and shipped to a garden centre in the UK .The company claims that Irish peat is to wet :confused: :confused: .

Apparently Irish peat sells better than Polish peat

 

So it just goes to Ireland first for the craic? :D

 

.....or the guiness.....

Unbelievable, isn't it! That it's worth while going to all that trouble to sell Polish peat....

But the point is the same wherever the peat-bogs are - we still don't want to be taking it all.

 

It has to come here to get a shamrock tattooed on its a-s-s :D . If you look really close at a piece of peat you will see the tattoo - honestly . Would I tell fibs :D :D

 

Heres another one for you.

Ars enals new stadium in London .Guess where all the metal stair rails and light colloums came from . Thats right Northern Ireland.
And BTY I was the first to stand on the new pitch .10 seconds after it was laid. :D

 

Bet you buried a flag under the turf!

 

To be honest - no real intrest in football.
For those who are it was a new process that was used to lay the pitch .It was all top secret but simply put the grass was wrapped round a plastic spike and inserted into the pitch. It is supposed to be harder to rip out when the players go sliding down the pitch.

 

And with all that c**p spread over it every other week,it will last for ages :rolleyes: :D

 

:D :D

 

We've a very big pear tree, an apple tree and a big climbing hydrangea bordering a fairly long gravel drive. If we use a rake or brush and shovel we end up raking up gravel as well as leaves. The blowing/sooking thingie just shifts leaves.

 

I can see a pro and anti blowy-sooky thingy lobby starting... :rolleyes: :D