Re: Leaf Shredder
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Leaf Shredder
- From: G* O*
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:45:20 -0500
At 08:57 AM 11/9/99 -0500, David wrote:
>
>Thanks to all for the advice on turning those pesky leaves into something
>useful.
>
LOL..David, you can ship me all those leaves if you want! This time of
year, when other people gaze proudly at row after row of canned tomatoes,
canned beans, and so on, I am in the yard gazing proudly at my Hefty bags
full of ground leaves.
For a couple of weeks I spend every minute in the yard, "harvesting" my
crop. I cruise the streets of town looking for bags of leaves left by the
curb for trash pickup and then sneak by and throw them in the back of the
truck as if I were stealing the crown jewels that the queen left lying
around in the yard.. It embarrases my husband no end. Yesterday we went by
the Recycling Center and down at the bottom of the "household waste" bin
(next to the crusher bar), I spotted a half dozen bags of maple leaves. I
swear, I would have crawled in and retrieved them, if the little man who
manages the site and retrieves valuable, flea-marketable stuff had not been
there.
Right now I'm eyeing a huge pile of sugar maple leaves down the street and
hoping the owner bags them up. If he/she doesn't, I'm gonna ask if I can
take a few ;-) of them. In my younger days I would have volunteered to
rake the yards of neighbors with particularly valuable leaves. I don't do
that any more, first you have to pile them up, then I'll come bag 'em. I'm
no fool.
They end up covering every garden bed and filling four compost bins. And by
spring I'm using them in the garden.
Gerry
