I like this time of year (generally) and look forward to cool temps gradually taking us to Winter. But, there is one thing about the Fall season I do not like—LEAVES, LEAVES, LEAVES.
I no longer rake them, I simply mow them into the grass using my trusty JD Green lawn tractor. My experience is that this makes a nice mulch over the winter to fertilize naturally. One thing I do not do is burn them. Unfortunately for my nose, my neighbors do—profusely, day after day. They do it when it's dry and when it wet. The latter causing so much smoke the neighborhood resembles a WWII battlefield.
But, soon this will be over and then I'll only have to deal with cold and often freezing rain, and maybe snow, which looks great at first but ultimately causes work for me just like my enemy "the leaves".
