Why not just mow them in? It's good for the grass.

There's TONS of leaves on my lawn so forget about mowing them. Way less on the neighbor's lawn, but it's still like the straw on camel's back. Due to wet weather, they weren't done yet. Sorry guys - by now I realized that my lawn layout isn't easily able to have such a fence, due to close proximity to neighbor, as well as logistics of getting the mower from front yard to backyard during summertime.

So therefore, consider this TOPIC CLOSED.

I blow my neighbors leaves into my lawn, and I also steal bagged leaves that people put out for pickup and mow them into my lawn. You literally can't have enough mulched leaves.

The leaves are an asset, not a liability. By closing this topic you are shutting off any viable alternatives to solving your problem.

Except that my entire setup is abnormal - don't even ask.. My priority
is health research, way more than this. 30 yrs. ago would have been a
diff. story. These days, if I can manage to get the odd-job guy combined
with decent weather, that in itself is a major hurdle overcome,
evincing a sigh of relief. Not to mention that (during this last job)
his more-powerful blower broke down, and he had to resort to his
low-power one which took forever, while he was trying to hurry since
rain was falling already. You cannot begin to imagine the volume of
leaves from overgrown maple trees encroaching the 50's house.

BTW, I had him blow the near side of the neighbor's leaves as well, and hope that somewhat resolves it, given that the far side has the neighbor's wrought iron railing running alongside all those leaves, thus hopefully acting as barrier.

Rest assured that any forum member with a "dream property" who's reading this thread will take your comments to heart and mow in the leaves shed by their lovely and neat little saplings, on their lovely manicured lawns. I would, too, in their place!

My back lawn is buried in leaves right now, about half an inch deep. It borders a wooded area. They will be mulched in as soon as the weekend comes. It's not about neat little saplings, you can mow hundreds of pounds of leaves per thousand square ft with no issues. That's inches deep. I do it every year and it saves hours of back breaking work raking and blowing - your odd-job guy might even appreciate it, unless he's paid by the hour

Would one of those nearly invisible black deer fences work to stop the leaves from blowing on to your property?

Oh...interesting. I'll take that into consideration next year - but I don't think the guy's mower is that powerful. I guess I can ask, if I remember.

As for deer fence, as I said above:

by now I realized that my lawn layout isn't easily able to have such a
fence, due to close proximity to neighbor, as well as logistics of
getting the mower from front yard to backyard during summertime. (too hard to explain, but that's how it is.

P.S. the saying "water water everywhere" is true, because thus far I got no answers to my fridge Qs on another houzz forum, but rather a bunch of replies here!
Ditto re: other Qs elsewhere. Happens to me all the time.

When you say "blowing onto your lawn" ... are they being blown from the trees and falling onto the lawn or are they drifting along the ground?

if they are blowing through the air, no solution except running the lawn morwer over them.

If they are drifting, using 2-foot black plastic or plastic coated poultry netting at strategic places would collect them in drifts for easier collection - them can be held up with bamboo or metal stakes, and pulled out and rolled up when you don't need them.

More netting along the neighbor's fence would keet theirs from drifting onto your yard.

Thank you. I don't monitor them, so don't know the answer.

The issue i have is that my neighbor's lot is vacant, with several large trees. My property sits lower than thiers as well. As much of an asset that leaves might be, when they blow onto my property from fall thru spring, i don't have time or energy to clean up this "asset" every week. Or enough places to use them as fertilizer. Even in the dead of winter they continue. Leaving them detroys my lawn. I use silt temporary fencing. $38 at Lowes/Home Depot.

I am thinking about using stakes and 2' high hardware cloth. My neighbors all have a high property and I have the lowest in the neighborhood, so the leaves from everywhere blow onto my yard. Every year, I deal with leaves anywhere from 7-10 times. I do not have a ride-on mower and I do have lots of gardens with spring bulbs that I would like to see, but won't if the foot deep accumulation of leaves remain. I have just created another bed with spreading yews which hopefully will take care of the problem in a few years. I am a sixty year old woman with arthritis and heart failure. All of my neighbors are under 40 and in good health. None of them do any yardwork, and they know that if they wait long enough, all of their leaves become mine. I am blown away by the lack of responsibility and compassion. I have over 1000 dollars invested in mulch, plants and labor this year alone. Oh, and I don't have any trees over 6' high at this point. After taking care of the neighborhood's leaves for 40 years, I'm done! I have spoken to all of them about helping out, but apparently, they would rather do other things. Guess what? So would I!!!

Even a low fence of any type or style (including deer fence or other temporary fencing) can and will catch leaves, so it'll work fine. You'll still get plenty that blow over or into your yard, but that's true of any fence.

I have fifteen foot Thujas to the south (mine) and a seven foot fence to the north, the two primary directions from which the winds tend to blow during fall storms (rare strong ones will generate an eastern wind, but I don't get a lot of leaves out of them for other reasons).

Even so, I do get some leaves, mostly from the fact that the Thuja create a dead air zone (in my case I do welcome them as free organic material and mow them in when I mow the lawn, they're not overwhelming), and some in the lee of the fence.

But for the most part, the "fences," living and wooden, protect the property from Everybody Else's Stuff.

(In my case, I also import leaves, but that's quite another story).

Your elevation relative to your neighbors has nothing to do with where the wind blows the leaves. I used to live on a cul de sac, uphill, at the highest elevation in the hood, but when the wind blew up the street, everything landed in our yard.

Leaves that land on your lawn should be mulched into the turf with a mower. Any mower will do that. Mulch mowing will eliminate the piles of leaves with no more effort than regular mowing. If you get more leaves in a few weeks, mow again.

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I can relate to the leaves problem. There's a prevailing south wind from the oak tree on my south and my yard always has more than the oak's yard. Leaves get to be several inches deep unless I rake weekly, at least. And if I fail to clean them off the street every day or two, I'm in for it, because the oak's owners irrigate the street daily with their sprinkler overspray. Irrigation happens all the time except in sub freezing weather, so I have leaves, wet leaves and driven over, mashed up wet leaves to clean from October thru January. Impossible to mulch them all.

If it’s not acorns, it’s leaves, then the nasty pollen! Add nasty neighbors who turn blind eye to the nuisance their tree causes. I can only hope their nasty oak is eating their foundation and plumbing of their home. I love trees, but a forest tree should not be planted on postage stamp lot!!