Leaves.

[smurfjuice]

Friggin leaves, need i say more ...

 

[Murphys_Law]

Yeah, I had a 10 min addition my last brew.

 

[Aristotelian]

What would happen if we just left them on the lawn? Eventually it would start to look like the woods. The woods are pretty. Seriously, why do we do this to ourselves every year?

 

[Quaker]

I never seem to have enough. I use it for mulch around berry bushes and trees, and pile up some up for leaf mold as compost. If I didn't want it for that, I would just mow them into bits where they lay. I bought a backpack leaf blower his year... less noisy than a teenage son raking.

 

[glick]

my yard was covered this morning, then...45mph wind gusts all day and I no longer have a leaf problem!

 

[benco]

After fighting them for years I just learned to live with them, they are nice in the summer time for shade.

 

[kenoglass]

I usually remove them the first round when our town collects them. Then I just mulch the rest. I am sure my neighbor hates me when I do this. He daily blows his leaves, its like if one falls on his lawn he is out there for an hour removing them. Sometimes he removes some from our side that connects to his yard.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

I just did the first of 2 cleanups on my lawn. I just bought a new Echo backpack blower from Home Depot. I think its the 510...I gotta say the thing Kicks Ass.

 

[Thorsbrew]

Yeah, I had a 10 min addition my last brew.

This, amongst bugs and other such things, is why i put one of those cooking splatter screens over my kettle.

 

[tgolanos]

This, amongst bugs and other such things, is why i put one of those cooking splatter screens over my kettle.

I just had a leaf blow into a Pils wort about 20 minutes into the boil. It's fermenting fine now, so no worries!

I used to have a mesh food screen, but it got a hole punctured in it. Got to get a new one.

 

[madscientist451]

One thing I didn't miss when I moved from town out to an old farm in the country, is the constant sound of leaf blowers in the fall. I had one neighbor who never came outside, except to run his leaf blower in the fall and rest of the year, using his leaf blower to dry off his patio after it rained. Never once saw him use his patio or relax or in a lawn chair in the shade. My leaves don't bother me a bit now, I run them over with the lawn mower when I feel like it, but the wind seems to generally carry them away.

 

[smurfjuice]

What would happen if we just left them on the lawn? Eventually it would start to look like the woods. The woods are pretty. Seriously, why do we do this to ourselves every year?

Kill the grass real quick ... :beard:

 

[RM-MN]

I just had a leaf blow into a Pils wort about 20 minutes into the boil. It's fermenting fine now, so no worries!

I used to have a mesh food screen, but it got a hole punctured in it. Got to get a new one.

Duct tape! Haven't you ever watched Red Green?

 

[lschiavo]

I make sure my grass is cut short in the fall. The wind does a good job.

 

[20grit]

Just hop on the lawnmower and chop them to bits. They'll degrade into your yard and you'll never notice.

 

[JonM]

We have a huge beautiful county park across the street. It's full of big oaks and maples. High winds on Friday made sure that pretty much every single leaf wound up in my yard. Huzzah.

 

[user 141939]

I never seem to have enough. I use it for mulch around berry bushes and trees, and pile up some up for leaf mold as compost. If I didn't want it for that, I would just mow them into bits where they lay. I bought a backpack leaf blower his year... less noisy than a teenage son raking.

I stopped raking years ago. Just mulch them by mowing over them twice. By spring the little bits have broken down to return the nutrients to the soil. It is the circle of life.

 

[rhys333]

I get 3 or 4 bags full every Fall. Excellent source of mulch to insulate around fruiting bushes. Also a perfect carbon material to mix with all those spent grains and make top notch compost!

 

[Quaker]

I just did the first of 2 cleanups on my lawn. I just bought a new Echo backpack blower from Home Depot. I think its the 510...I gotta say the thing Kicks Ass.

That's exactly what and where I got it. Turns me into a kid with a flamethrower or channeling my inner Ghostbuster.

 

[lschiavo]

It snowed on my damned leaves. Now what am I supposed to do?

 

[badgerfan79]

I make sure the wind is just right and light them on fire. That's what the neighbor get for being an *ss