Post by Tumbleweed on Nov 9, 2010 2:28:26 GMT -6
At my old home I had huge trees that produced mountains of leaves. The first few years I dutifully raked them up putting them in the paper leaf bags our city requires. One year I had nearly a full tank of gas in my lawn mower and in order to get the mower ready for the winter I needed to run the gas out. How to do this? Well, I got this idea I would just "mow" the leaves I had raked into several piles to break them down. Initially, my intention was to make the piles fit into the limited amount of leaf bags I had on hand. As I mowed over and over the pile with my mulching mower the piles soon became smaller and smaller as the leaves disintegrated. In the end I had several small mound of finely chopped leaves which I just tossed in the flower beds and raked what remained over the lawn.
I then did one final mowing over the lawn until I ran out of gas. Not only did I provide some much need nutrition to my flower beds and lawn but I saved on recycle leaf bags, ran my mower out of gas and had a beautiful lawn to boot.
Try it.
I then did one final mowing over the lawn until I ran out of gas. Not only did I provide some much need nutrition to my flower beds and lawn but I saved on recycle leaf bags, ran my mower out of gas and had a beautiful lawn to boot.
Try it.
I imagine there is a way to empty it without starting it but I've never done that so I couldn't tell you how but now I'm interested so may do a bit of searching for the how to's.