Fall Leaf Removal

I posted a thread about  Fall in NH
This is the aftermath. We have to clean up the leaves. They hung on later than usual this year. We did this on Saturday.

My wife, ML, and I work as a team. She uses the back pack blower to corral the leaves.
We had done the front yard and working out back in the afternoon. The sun was low in the sky and added some nice rays in the pics.





ML makes light work of the leaves. She is much better at this than I. In fact I hate using the leaf blower.
But she reveals a green swath of grass in an eye blink.



She blows the leaves into windrows or piles. I park the tow behind leaf vacuum by the piles and rake the leaves into the vacuum hose.


When the vac hopper is filled I very carefully back it up to dump the leaves down the hill at the end of the driveway.


If ML is available she uses the leaf blower to force the leaves out. If she is not there I pull them out with a rake and then tip the hopper to complete the job.


We intended to continue on Sunday but the day started windy and rainy. Then it turned to snow in the evening!!


It was a wet sticky snow that stuck to the trees despite the wind. Very pretty this morning.


We will finish the leaf removal on Black Friday. While considered yard work it beats a mobbed mall any day.

Phil

Weather has been quick to change. We had the windows in the back of our house replaced on Thursday and Friday and it was mid sixties and just wonderful. They finished Friday afternoon and Saturday morning it was high thirties and sleeting. We will suck up the leaves in a riding mower and then put them in a large compost pile along with the grass clippings. Once full I will top with a three or four tubs of wood shaving and horse poo that my wife's horse generates. By next year it is rich black dirt ready to go back in to the raised beds. I have two large compost beds - one in the process of being filled and one with finished product.

Wow, Phil! That seems like quite a bit of work.