Can you borrow a leaf shredder and bag some of them? What about running a sprinkler on them and wetting them down real good once you get them away from the house?

WindsurfGirl

Could you put them in a central compost pile away from the house and keep it moist with a hose? Shredding before hand would be good. I need to run the mower over my leaves, but am hesitant to start anything with a spark. I'm finished waiting for winter and am planting my tulip bulbs today. Can't decide whether to water them or not - they might think it's spring - and maybe it is. Hope everyone is staying safe from the awful fires.

What I have done so far is pull everything into a bed in the center of the yard. Am running a hose on that right now. Haven't made it to the front yard yet but will work on that this afternoon. My daughter's on her way. Maybe I can talk her into helping. I don't have a shredder but am thinking it may be a worthwhile investment with all these trees. My mower is an old fashioned rotary push mower and doesn't shred leaves. This is bad - but what the prairie does, I guess.

I am worried about the same thing. I need to get that compost bin built this weekend and start using those leaves. I think I will bag the rest and wait out the drought.

Hi Ya'll!

A weedeater can render those leaves into smaller pieces, too. I have one area that is shin deep with oak leaves and aspen leaves. Some limbs broke off the huge poplar tree and fell down in the high winds last week. I am kinda crippled up right now, so this is pretty hard for me to do, but I don't feel like I have any choice.

I've been watering, running the sprinkler and soaking my yard as far as I can reach with the hose for the past week. I trimmed back shrubs and clipped the grass really short and then raked it up and put it into the compost pile, which I am also keeping wet. I cut back my ornamental grasses and trimmed back the various spirea shrubs and all the dead phlox stems that I hadn't cut back yet.

There have been fires all the way around me out here. Who knows which direction it can come from? There is knee high grass in the neighbor's pasture on my south, and chest high grass and dried weeds in the neighbor's pasture to my north. Swell.

I have been talking to God about the drought. . .about our desperate need for some rain. . .How we REALLY need a good soaker rain. I hope He says yes!

~SweetAnnie

I haven't planted my tulip bulbs yet either. But, my hyacinths are coming up! What a dilemma this weather is causing. Things just don't know what to do.

Susan

I got some white Jonquils for Christmas from my MIL but the weather is just too warm to plant them now, so I stuck them up in the freezer to "Chill" for a while before I plant them.

Please be careful with power tools and machines. I saw on the news that there have been several bad fires started from a single spark off lawn mowers and one from the spark from a motorcycle.