City Trees Are Good For You
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/e...ealth/?hpid=z5

Who knew? ;)

And I was thinking about moving back up into the redwoods. :)

Trees=leaves.
Leaves=raking.
Trees - good.
Raking-bad.

Our next house will have sand and artfully placed rocks in the yard. I will visit the trees at the park down the street.

Leaves create topsoil.
No topsoil = desert & dust.

I have done my part and aided the creation of a great deal of topsoil.

Time for the next generation to shoulder their rakes and march valiantly into battle.

Rakes for what?

Make it easy on yourself!:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOBy1gq4iXI

There are always a few the leaf blower misses.

At my one place with the three big oaks and assorted maples I was way oversupplied with leaves. Bagged them one year, but that was 50-some bags. Mowed them in one year, but was told the lawn couldn't stand that long-term. True or not? I wonder.

Burned them one year but didn't like making all that smoke. Best bet was borrowing a pick-up and carting them to the leaf dump in bulk, under a tarp.

Leaf dump a strange place. You can look at it as a carbon sequestration facility, or as a new coal mine, ready to go in a couple million years....

I return all biomass back to the earth. Once you get the system working, the leaves will disappear quickly. You can also shred, dry, & sprinkle around the garden with some organic nitrogen.

Have some links for some for that. I have several trees. I mulch and bag the leaves with my mower, but it would be nice to have something better to do with them than having the city pick the bags up (although I do believe that the city composts yard waste).

Regards,

D-Ray