Me vs leaves, round 1

The leaves finally turned some pretty autumn colours when the dang weather turned wet; mostly just all day drizzle. So I have not been able to enjoy the autumn colours. The leaves are falling though and at the moment I can not even start on them with this weather. I also have some locust rounds to split but they will have to wait as well. When I do start gathering the leaves, they go in a huge pile behind the veggie garden to become garden mulch when I start planting. I guess I will have to try and get the sweet potatoes dug on Friday; weather is going to turn bloody cold here on Friday/Saturday with the over night temps taking out anything still growing.

 

It has been pretty rainy around here too but last couple days pretty dry so I was able to blow some dry leaves

 

I have 2 big maples in my front hard that will bury me if I don't stay on top of the leaves. I blow the leaves from my driveway and sidewalk into the yard, then mow em, dump the bag into a wheelbarrow, and dump em out back in the woods. My wheelbarrow holds 3-4 mower bags of chopped leaves depending on how dry they are. Wet leaves compress better in the wheelbarrow. I've had to do it on back to back days a few times. In previous years I've emptied the bag over 20 times in one day. On the heaviest days this year I tried a new plan of blowing them into a pile then using two rakes to scoop them into the wheelbarrow. I think I prefer mowing them as the chopped leaves are less volume where I dump them out back.

 

We had a hardcore frost last night. When the sun popped out this morning it rained leaves. Weather channel saying rain all week end. So we will see.

 

I have tried a lot of different ways over the past 25 years but I am really liking this Backpack Blower just blowing them back into the woods.
It's a little more physical work but I eliminate all this stopping dumping, stopping dumping, and no Rakes needed, oh wait I do use a rake to get the leaves off the top of the shrubs

 

I hear dat
When these trees in the back really start dropping their leaves and I get a big wind it's like a snow storm with the biggest flakes you have ever seen

 

You might have some good potting soil from those leaves dumped in years past.

 

You can still see the grass. You are winning.

 

Every couple of days.

 

Pretty yellow yard there in lest picture
I wish we would get a 40 mile an hour wind and get this over with