Re: Leaf Shredder
I have enough leaves of my own so I don't scrounge leaves, but I
have been known to do the same with pine (White) needles.
Bill Plummer
Painted Post, New York
Zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: Gerry/Bob O'Neill <eoneill@IBM.NET>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, 10 November, 1999 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] Leaf Shredder
> 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
>
