A leaf blower. I have a massive amout of leafy trees and it ised to be an all day chore to clean it up in the fall. Now, it takes about 20 minutes.
I mostly clean them off the driveway, paths, and grass since they get slick as it’s quite rainy here. I usually will try to mulch them and add them back to the flower beds, or compost most of what I clean up. I uave a few areas where I don’t clean them at all. But the drive and paths are a must.
I want to eventually convert the front grass to a native habitat and am in the process of getting certified, but that takes time and we just started recently. Once it’s mostly converted, I won’t need to leaf blow that area any longer.
Hopefully you have an electric one. The gas ones are fucking terrible for the environment.
I recently moved to a new place surrounded by leafy trees and realized I’ll actually have to rake the yard, for the first time in a very long time.
But I also just bought a small leaf blower to clear the driveway after mowing… and you made me realize that it’s… well… a leaf blower. I hope it’s powerful enough, but I bet it’ll still speed things up regardless
Yeah, it should help some. It was taking my wife and I a fair amount of time to clean it all up, every weekend during the fall. Now, I can blow it into a huge pile in about 15-20 minutes. Then I can mulch it, add it to the compost, or just send it to the yard debris container. It was a bit pricey, but has saved me countless hours.
