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Obligatory "leave the leaves" if you can. Insects and small animals use the leaf litter and they're good for soil creation (thanks, worms and fungi). Wondering why you don't see as many lightning bugs/fireflies nowadays? Leave your leaves and they'll have places to lay their eggs. Avoid becoming a member of the cult of the lawn!
I'm so angry. I had leaves for two years and the city made me remove them like right during the nesting period. So it's gonna be another two years before I see an increase in fireflies.
My grandpa apparently went to war with the municipal council over his unmown meadow. Had a decent piece of land with wild flowers and grasses and all that. The story was told to me second-hand about 15 years ago and is at least 30-40 years old, but if I got it right, he mowed that land once per year in fall.
The council wasn't happy with that, because he was supposed to mowed it twice per year, once in spring. Grandpa refused to cut down the flowers in their bloom, both because of all the things living in and off that and because pretty. Stern letter, discussions in person, deadline was set and went by. All the while, the "unkempt" non-lawn grew.
Eventually council imposed a fine. Obviously, a fine is supposed to compel a change in behaviour, but they couldn't set deadlines tight enough or the initial fine high enough to actually hurt him, so he just paid his "fuck your lawns" fee year by year.
I believe they gave up at some point, but I'm not sure whether that's just wishful thinking. In any case, that meadow was still growing wild and free when I was old enough to assist in the yearly mowing, long after his death.
Obviously, we can't all afford to stick it to the local bean counters that stubbornly, but it's nice to dream sometimes.
Depends on the climate and the number of trees. I understand wanting to leave all the leaves, but it'll just create a muddy mess in my yard. I mulch them, it spreads through the yard. I circle around the trees and garden beds to get more leaves in those areas. Leftovers go on the composting pile.
Yeah the tree:land ratio of my back garden is highly in favour of the trees. Every autumn the entire area gets coated in a thick layer of sycamore leaves that can easily take a year to decompose even in a compost pile. I rake that shit into piles over my flowerbeds for the winter, then into the compost during the spring. I would mow them but it's the UK so it's rare to find an autumn day where the leaves aren't too wet and soggy.
I leave all the leaves in my yard, and mine is the only one with a lot of fireflies. It's amazing at night
Ewwww, there are bugs in my lawn‽ Kill them kill them kill them!
Oh no! Are there completely harmless animals outside?! How scary!
Absolutely terrifying! Do you have a flamethrower I can borrow?
Stay inside in your nice sterile house if nature is too scary.
I look forward to seeing more electric leaf blowers. Sure they have a bit of an annoying high pitched whine when you're close by, but you're not going to hear it more than 5 meters away. I've also been seeing more electric lawn mowers which are also much quieter.
How about not having lawns in the first place?
I look forward to seeing less leaf blowers in general. I don't get the obsession with getting rid of leaves. You're damaging the local ecosystem for what? The ability to watch your grass turn brown?
Grass turns brown in the fall, for you? That usually only happens in the summer here, when we get heat waves. The grass is green every other time, covered or not covered.
Hi, leaf pilled person here. I still have a leaf blower to get them off my driveway. IN FACT! I use a leaf blower to get them off the pavement and onto the ground where they'll be beneficial. They're still a useful piece of equipment.
I have an electric leaf blower, it's pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.
Yeah, it's really crazy how much quieter the electric lawn tools are. It's very noticeable.
I commonly use an electric leafblower for work, it's loud as fuck
Our park ranger is a nice guy and I help him out from time to time, and we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
He said that yes they're loud, but they are remarkably efficient at moving leaves into a nice pile, missing nothing
we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
In my experience, they tend to blow, even the good ones.
if your leafblower suck, there's a switch for that. read the fucking manual before complaining
The "missing nothing" part is problematic. Many creatures rely on leaves to survive or reproduce. Fireflies are a common example. Their population has been decimated by the complete removal of leaves as standard practice
I cannot understand why people are so intent on removing every leaf from their yard
Using the same principle as noise cancelling headphones, you could just blast an equally loud counter sound to negate the blower's noise.
But where's the fun in that?
Won't work sadly, the "counter sound" can't be in phase in multiple locations because of delay and reflections. Headphones can do ANC because the ear is basically a single point so the mic can pick up exactly what you're about to hear and then compensate.
Using a speaker like that would just create double the leafblower noise.
How I wish active noise cancellation was a thing for rooms rather than just headphones.
This would be a game changer for people in multi-family housing.
Or leafblowers could include that as a mandatory feature
People who unironically think this should go clean some leaves themselves and see how long they stick with the rake.
It's always so much easier to tell other people how to do their job.
'Cleaning' leaves is stupid as hell anyway.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE NEIGHBOR BLOWING LEAVES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
But I hate climate change and like bees
Depends if you're going for most or all of the leaves. If you're just going for most and you're not incompetent, rake is easy and quick.
is a blower more fun, yes, do i drive a tank instead of a bike because of that? no
I don't mind leafblowers but don't start at 8 AM IN THE MORNING
It's my FAMILY TRADITION to blow leaves in every day of JANUARY you don't understand god put them there to BE BLOWN
(not but really last January I heard so many leaf blowers. What are you blowing? Ghost leaves??)
Where I used to live, they would start at 7 AM. EVERY DAY, INCLUDING THE WEEKENDS.
I was tempted to buy a leafblower for myself, follow the leafblower guy around, and just throw all the leaves back at him.
My retired neighbor waits to do it on Sunday. I think he has a bottle of 2 stroke oil on his nightstand beside the tissue box
Fuck them at all hours
