Reading over the posts here, it's apparent that a lot of folks don't comprehend what we're up against here. Before coming to Michigan, I spent most of my life on the High Plains where leaves were never much of a problem. Then a few years in North Carolina where mostly you deal with pine needles.
My wife and I bought our place here back in '94. Nine acres where the previous owners had done very little in the way of tree removal. Not much grass to worry about, but that first autumn was a real eye-opener: Ten inches of oak and maple leaves on the ground. We went after them with rakes, but I quickly discovered it takes a LONG time to burn that many leaves. Fortunately we had a couple of sons still at home, but it was a nightmare. My wife says those leaves nearly brought her to tears.
The next year I thought I'd try mulching them. Big disaster. Not only did the oak leaves kill what little grass we had, but the whole next summer we tracked ground up leaves into the house.
Year three I bought the Little Wonder and started blowing the leaves into the woods. Problem solved. We also took out around a hundred big trees, which cut way back on the volume. Now I have to clear leaves from five or six times as much area as when we first moved in (more grass to mow, too), but it's a project I can handle myself in about three weekends. The main thing is to not let the leaves pile too deep.
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