lesly Batcheler Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 :?I have lived in a wooded area for many years but have never understood why people sweep up leaves when they are blowing from the trees and will be for another month or more . Are they people who push coasters under your drink as you put it down ? Incidently in my road the same people that sweep leaves shovel snow. I should be grateful to them and I know we all have different standrds but what a waste of time . Lesly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Things like leaves blow about and decompose so I don't think I would wear myself out sweeping them all up but just lately I have been collecting leaves from the garden and throwing them in the chicken run as the girls love raking through them looking for tasty bugs!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenzin Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Sweeping leaves in the garden stops one walking on the chicken poo I always send my maid out to sweep the leaves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I would love to have the nerve to go out to the main road where there are loads of leaves and collect them all as they make brilliant compost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Go on Helen! Have a nerve! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I do collect some, for leaf mould purposes, but that is all. Life is too short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I wouldn't bother either, but I've also started doing it for the chooks! I go across the road for them. The neighbours who DO regularly sweep the leaves are delighted as now there are less for them to sweep, and when they do sweep they put them all in a bag and leave them on my doorstep for the chooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I swept and raked all the leaves up in my garden yesterday afternoon for the chook run. They just love rooting through them all The street cleaners usually come along and bag up all the leaves on the pavements nearby (no trees in my road though), as I think they are off plane trees and get quite slippery when wet, and take ages to decompose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 The children and I spend many a happy walk scrunching through dropped leaves in the autumn - I vote for leaving them! You can always tell if we've had a good autumn walk by the amount of leaves in Caitys knickers at the end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 There's a beautiful park at the bottom of our road and I'm lucky enough to need to walk through it 4 times a day. There's a chap who comes and rakes up leaves from a certain tree, bags them up and lugs them offf. I keep meaning to ask what it's for... he either has loads of chooks or this particular tree makes good leaf mould! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Life is too short to sweep up leaves Although the daughters did collect up a bin bag full each at the weekend, & gave them to the hens to play with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatedog Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I have to sweep ours up regularly as they fall on the path and then make it slippery and treacherous underfoot when wet..... mind you, when I rake/brush them all up, Pepper dives straight in and starts kicking them all over the place again looking for bugs.......*memo to self to make sure Pepper's in the run before I sweep up......* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocchick Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 We barely even cut our lawn or keep on top of gardening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaR Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 We have a big conker tree on the green in our close. I've taken on the role as chief leaf sweeper in the Autumn nowadays as previously, it was my two next door neighbours who did it. They are now both getting a bit too old to spend a morning each week raking up the leaves but they do like them gone as they blow into our gardens and onto the pavements making them slippery. They worry about falling and hurting themselves, so for me - personally, I would be happy to leave them but neighbourly concern has got the better of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiltyhen Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 I sweep up the leaves from my hazel tree, put them in black bags behind the shed for a year or so. They rot down and make lovely leaf mould for free for the garden. I don't bother with trees outside the garden, I just hope for a good breeze. Liz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
