Sick and tired of bloody leaves

[speccy1]

The OP is taking "moaning about the weather" a bit to the extreme, now it's "moaning about the season"

whatever................

 

[vernon]

Go for a scorched earth policy.

And I've got just the tools....

 

[Accy cyclist]

Leaves are part of nature. They fall off the trees to the ground then break down and feed the soil. Unless they're wet and rotting away in a cycle lane i don't see them as a problem. By the way i haven't seen any council leaf blowers out so far this autumn. You know, the ones who blow them from one area to another. Then another council leaf blower comes along the following week and blows them back again. Must be "the cut backs"?

 

[Dave 123]

@speccy1 just out of professional interest what are the trees?


What you need is an avenue of Plane trees, then you'd be right to grumble!

 

[andytheflyer]

Been away for 2 days - just off to do my leaves now. Otherwise I'll be spread all over the road on leaf mulch when I next try to turn in carrying sufficient speed to getup the bank onto our close. No-one else rides a bike on the close so it's down to me....(goes to check petrol in the leaf blower...)

 

[speccy1]

@speccy1 just out of professional interest what are the trees?


What you need is an avenue of Plane trees, then you'd be right to grumble!

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I don`t know, trees aren`t my specialist subject - I`ve been outside for 3 hours now, emptied my garden waste bag 18 times, stood in numerous steaming mounds of cat shoot, and walked it into the house. I haven`t even scratched the surface of it yet

Right now I feel my right to grumble is very justified

 

[speccy1]

I don`t know, trees aren`t my specialist subject - I`ve been outside for 3 hours now, emptied my garden waste bag 18 times, stood in numerous steaming mounds of cat shoot, and walked it into the house. I haven`t even scratched the surface of it yet

Right now I feel my right to grumble is very justified

I didn`t type the word "shoot", nor did I mean it

 

[Lonestar]

Leaves all over the road,look well dodgy.

 

[roadrash]

HMMM ... I miss noodleys tree at this time of year

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Looks great out there to me - we live in the sticks and have masses of Ash to the front and Oak to the rear. Huge volume of leaves covering the fairly large gardens. They can they stay there too - good old Mother Nature will sort them out with no effort from yours truly.

 

[Hyslop]

Looks great out there to me - we live in the sticks and have masses of Ash to the front and Oak to the rear. Huge volume of leaves covering the fairly large gardens. They can they stay there too - good old Mother Nature will sort them out with no effort from yours truly.

+1,I dislike gardening to start with(coming from a line of garden lovers)and therefore,so long as the leaves pose no threat to others.they will,weather permitting,stay where they are and rot.I have better things to do with my time than sweep/blow rotting vegetation.

 

[cd365]

Leaves are part of nature. They fall off the trees to the ground then break down and feed the soil. Unless they're wet and rotting away in a cycle lane i don't see them as a problem. By the way i haven't seen any council leaf blowers out so far this autumn. You know, the ones who blow them from one area to another. Then another council leaf blower comes along the following week and blows them back again. Must be "the cut backs"?

If I leave the leaves they kill off bits of my grass

 

[Mr Celine]

In my garden I have five mature trees: a noble fir, a sitka spruce, a lawson cypress, a horse chestnut and a common lime. I also have some smaller trees. Two of my neighbours have mature sycamores. Because of the shape of the gardens all of the leaves from the deciduous trees end up in my garden.
There are open fields to the south west of my garden, so I can only have a bonfire without annoying the whole estate if the wind is in the east or north. On Tuesday night I spent over two hours raking every leaf off the lawn and burning them. By Thursday morning the lawn was completely covered again. The leaves are now soaking so no chance of burning them even if the wind changes again. If anyone wants some conkers pm me.

 

[Ganymede]

If I leave the leaves they kill off bits of my grass

And if you leave them on gravel they rot down and create new soil into which grass and weeds sow themselves WITH GLEE. I dislike gravel but it was there when I moved in.

Actually it's the only surface on which using a leaf-blower might be remotely justified - raking leaves off gravel removes rather a lot of stones. My neighbour's gardener leaf-blew our gravel one year and it was great. Sigh.

 

[gavroche]

I am lucky, we have trees at the back of our garden but they are ever greens, so they don't shed leaves.