Re: Leaf Shredder
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Leaf Shredder
- From: m* l*
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:55:43 -0700
At 07:45 AM 11/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
Gerry, make friends with someone who has three or four maple trees and no
garden area. Tell him/her you'll take the bagged leaves off his or her
hands and return the bags for re-use. Leave your telephone number. I have
people in the neighborhood who have called me each year for nearly 20 years
when their leaves are raked and bagged. I embarrassed my husband, too. I
also preferred to get leaves from people who were still raking and bagging,
because they'd help me load the bags into my little pickup.
What's even better is to make friends with lawn service guys who pick up
leaves they've mowed. Guys who do that in my neighborhood have brought me
pickups packed full of shredded leaves. They can drive into my garden area
and offload them. Then it's up to me to spread them in the garden. Margaret
L
