What to do this week: Rake leaves into 3-foot-high piles, and you will have weed-free compost in 15 months. You’ll have it sooner if you mow the leaves first to make them smaller and top the ...

Most people rake up their leaves, bag them, and send them off to massive municipal compost piles. You can turn your leaves into garden and landscaping mulch with a weed whacker and skip dragging ...

Use a leaf shredder to shred fallen leaves or run over them with a mower with a bag attached. If you don’t chop up the organic matter, it will still compost. It will just take longer.

It's the season of falling leaves, and you might be tempted to use your pile as mulch for your garden and around the yard.

If you have started a compost pile for your food waste, chopped leaves are the best carbonaceous material now conveniently available to make your compost pile work better.

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Sweeping: Indicates the speed of moving a pile of leaves. ... Read CR's review of the Weed Eater FB25 leaf blower to find out if it's worth it. We've tested and reviewed products since 1936.

Composting bishop's weed was only partially effective. The heat created in the pile killed some of the roots but not all, and those that survived seemed happy to have been vacationing in a pile of ...

Read CR's review of the Weed Eater WE12B leaf blower to find out if it's worth it. We've tested and reviewed products since 1936. ... Sweeping: Indicates the speed of moving a pile of leaves.