After three days of killing myself trying to get the beds cleaned while still attempting to keep the lawn clean; I find myself having to priortize. Either I severely underestimated the amount of leaves that were still falling or the beds were just.that.deep! I’m gonna go with the latter… I spent almost four hours on one lawn today, trying to clean the beds and the lawn—in the end, I still wasn’t able to finish a couple of beds. I’ve decided I’m going to do front beds/areas first and work the rear beds in as I go. With some lawns, I am able to clean the entire lawn within a reasonable time frame—that won’t change. But, with those of you with larger beds and a tremendous amount of leaves—isn’t it weird how your lawn can be covered, three inches deep, while your neighbor has just a sprinkling of leaves—I’m going to focus on the front and work around the property until clean. My goal is to have the beds/areas clean and manageable by Thanksgiving.
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I have been asked many times—more times than I can count—why I bring my lawns down to such a short height preceding the Winter months. There are are many reasons I do this; I will outline the most important reasons here…
Blowing leaves through 6″ Bermuda or Zoysiagrass is painstakingly slow. At that height, the turf has formed somewhat of an inverted canopy that essentially just traps leaves within the tillers; and once the turf has gone dormant, it becomes more like a well-worn straw broom. You know those dust bunnies you sweep from your floor, but you can never seem to shake from the end of your broom? It’s the same principle. By bringing the turf down to a shorter height—slowly, while transitioning into Autumn—it greatly enhances my ability to work more efficiently, and to keep the lawn looking cleaner. This is especially true while blowing wet leaves. A higher cut would make in near impossible to keep the lawn managed with a flat, compact appearance, because I would first have to blow them out of the turf, and then across the turf. Blowing leaves—wet or dry—across a shorter, more compact turf is a lot like blowing them across pavement.
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