I recently moved into a house that, amazingly enough, has mature trees. These very large trees don't drop all their leaves immediately, but instead hold some late into the fall, so raking isn't a "do-it-once-and-you're-done" affair.
I kept waiting for the "right" time to go rake the leaves. Having a few brief moments, I took my 3.5 year old son out with me to start the task.
As most thinking parents can imagine, a pre-schooler is more interested in spreading leaves than piling them. :-O lesson learned -- bring extra patience and humor when raking leaves with the generous help of a preschooler.
So the leaves fall in the cold, it snows and rains on them, and they sit there for 4 months of "winter". Even in cool weather, that seems to be sufficient opportunity to allow the bottom layer of leaves to turn into mulch. Earthworms, centipedes and mold will be at home in the piles, and the grass underneath doesn't really like being buried in all that. Lesson learned -- find some time to make sure to get the "last" pile of leaves raked up, even if it means a little bit of snow goes with them.
Raking leaves does count as exercise doesn't it?
(still not done yet -- more leaves to rake, maybe I'll get to it tomorrow :-)
rootie
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