raking leaves

evertytime I look out my window the lawn is covered in leaves

as soon as I rake it - and turn round for a second theres more of them !

I have decided to ignore them all week until sunday then spend half an hour raking

a bit of leaf cover probably doesn't hurt the lawn ?

however left too long the grass beneath them surely gets patchy. problem is when the leaves get wet and sticky

so do you rake often or less often than me.

another thing - I've got a shiny green metal rake but other people have plastic ones. I hear words like tinged. have I got the right rake for the job !

should I buy a blower/sucker. well actually I had one but felt like a park attendent. then it broke. all this fuss and the truth I've only got a medium sized garden. blowing leaves from one side to the other is great fun but not entirely productive

the sucker did have the advantage of shredding the leaves - now I have huge piles of leaves.

what about the leaves in the beds - do I collect up and put them down again next week call it mulching or I leave them there

people say don't put them on the compost heap- what do they expect me to do - make a salad ! so put them in a seperate pile and then what ?

help

[ 14. November 2007, 11:14 PM: Message edited by: johnnywas ]

 

The more you do it the easyer the job probably weekly is the best frequency.

Plastic rakes are imo usless and flimsy, get a bulldog springbok rake, a bulldog wizard or quality equivelant.

Blowers are very usefull but only petrol, elcetric ones are a waste of time and cant be used in damp. I recomend stihl.

Suckers even petrol are a total waste of time, they block with wet leaves and any grit busts the impelor.

I either burn or pile up for leaf mould. A one ton type sandbag is very usefull.

 

As well as removing the fallen leaves that, as you say, damage the grass, scarifying the lawn as you collect the leaves will do a power of good to the grass. So you're doing two jobs in one.