Mulching Leaves With Your Lawn Mower
Simple lawn care tip today guys – but a very important one. Here in the fall time, most of you are out raking all those falling leaves to the street (if your town has collection service) or picking them up and stuffing them into refuse bags. Gosh that’s one of the things that I dislike most about “outdoor care” – I must admit.
But there is a much better way to do it that will also benefit the lawn – mulch the leaves with your mower.
Now I am not talking to those of you who have a freaking forest of oaks and maples in your yard – that is simply too much to mulch up, but within reason, you should grind up as much as possible and return it into the lawn.
The reason being is that falling leaves are awesome sources of free-organic nutrients that will help build your lawn’s soil profile, increasing soil biotic activity and air flow. The key is to use your mower’s mulching blade to get the leaves broken up into smaller bits that will not block sunlight or pack down and choke the grass. This may require you to mow over them a couple times each week until the end of the fall season, but so what guys – it’s still less work than raking and pulling isn’t it?
Trust me, mulching up fall leaves is a great practice to get into starting right now!
