
Chop Those Leaves With Your Mower
Take the grass catcher off your mower and mow over the leaves on your
lawn. You want to reduce your leaf clutter to dime-size pieces. You'll know you're done mowing leaves when about half an inch of grass can be seen through the mulched leaf layer. Once the leaf bits settle in, microbes and worms get to work recycling them. Any kind of rotary-action mower will do the job, and any kind of leaves can be chopped up. With several passes of your mower, you can mulch up to 18 inches of leaf clutter.

Feed Your Lawn To Speed Up The Process
Soil microbes do a better job recycling carbon from leaves when they have
nitrogen. Applying Scotts® Turf Builder® Winterguard® Fall Lawn Food after mulching your leaves will not only fertilize your lawn but also feed the microbes so they can break down the leaves faster. Your grass will be greener, and soil microbes will work harder, when you feed your lawn after leaf mulching.
See Great Results in the Spring
When spring arrives, you'll notice something: The leaf litter you mulched up in the fall will have disappeared. Meanwhile, your rake will look dusty and neglected—but your grass will look greener than ever.
Leaf Mulching: A Better Use of Resources
When you rake up your leaves, it costs you. Your local taxes pay for trucks to sweep up your leaves or pick up your leaf bags, all of which often end up in landfills. If you burn leaves, you're just sending up clouds of carbon into the atmosphere. Mulching leaves simply recycles a natural resource, giving you richer soil for free.

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