On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:30:29 GMT, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I'm in Western NY. Most folks here bag the leaves for the trash guys. My Dad
used to mow the leaves with the side discharge mower, and let them rot. Mom
would friek about what the neighbors would think. Dad's lawn hasn't ever
been fertilized.

Mine hasn't either, I just mow the leaves and let them rot. Bagging leaves
and raking out the thatch starves the lawn of the nutrients that went into
the grasss. Maybe why you have to fertilize twice a year. All the minerals
are coming up out of the soil, none are rotting and returning.
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Sorry to say this but I fertoilize my front lawn...( contracted out
to Natural lawn)...but like you I hop on my lawn tractor every fall
and "mow the leaves" and leave them to rot over the winter..

Just too much leaves to even think about raking up...

Bob Griffiths