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Mowing for Mulch - Wednesday 1st July 2015

My street is lined beautiful trees, but they shed a huge multitude of leaves and clog up gutters and drains and make the road slippery when damp. I have been raking them up for years, and then this year had a brain wave, I mowed them, yes that's right I set the mower at a slightly elevated height and I mowed the gutter and the road near the gutter and the job was done in a fraction of time it takes to rake them all up. I now have a heap of wonderful mulch for the garden and a clean gutter.
Contributed by Penny Hughes

Editor's note: Penny you and Wayne are two of a kind, he's not a fan of raking either! He mows the fallen leaves every autumn and puts them into a special compost pile he soups up with extra Dynamic Lifter so the leaves break down quickly, ready for spring mulching. Keeps me happy with a tidy garden and lots of lovely compost for the veggies come spring and summer. Cath