On Nov 18, 12:39*pm, mike wrote:
On Nov 18, 9:22*am, Claude Hopper
wrote:

Stormin Mormon wrote:
Please consider my Dad's solution. Mow the leaves in place, and leave them
to rot. No sense taking all the minerals and nitrogen out of your soil every
year. And sending all those minerals to the landfill.

Some people have way too many leaves for that.

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Claude Hopper * * * * *

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I don't understand that. *My 6.5 hp mower will occasionally have
trouble mulching tall soggy grass, but ONLY IF I let grass muck build
up under the deck. *I never have trouble either mulching or bagging
any amount of leaves. *Bagging is really easy for the mower, and is
probably a good idea for acidic oak leaves.

Plus, mowers are quieter and less annoying than a cheap, smokey, whiny
2-stroke blower. * The lesson: *take the money you would spend on a
blower, and save it for a quality, powerful, bagging/mulching mower.


That works great with a reasonable amount of leaves. But if you have
a heavily wooded area, mulching up all the leaves will result in so
much mulch that it smoothers the grass and kills it. I mulch when I
can, but still need to use a blower.