The Falling Leaves...Different Approaches

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3. The only leaves I fiind troubling are the leaflets from the black locust tree

The leaves from the crabs are easy, the leaves from the birch are easy the leaves from the basswood are easy.

All fall at different times, starting with the locust and ending with the basswood. The locust leaves cause me to haul out the the shop vac and I suck them up. I've never found a rake fine enough to lift them. I takes almost an hour, usually needs to be done two times, and is quite entertaining for the neighbors.

Otherwise, it's a twenty-five minute job to rake, once a week from Mid Oct to Early Nov.

Since open-heart surgery I've given up the giant bamboo yard master, and use a wire rake about 16 inches across.

If anything it seems less a burdern every year. Maybe it's just that the raking doesn't impose itself on all those now left behind things that I once had to do.