my op ed on mulching leaves
my op ed on mulching leaves
Today Richmond Times Dispatch published an op ed I wrote on mulching leaves. Here is a link:
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-o ... 75a25.html
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-o ... 75a25.html
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
Nice article! Thanks so much for sharing it! Thanks also for writing it to help spread the word to your community of the benefits of mulching leaves back into the lawn!virginiagal wrote: ↑October 7th, 2017, 5:13 amToday Richmond Times Dispatch published an op ed I wrote on mulching leaves. Here is a link:
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-o ... 75a25.html
I particularly like your concluding paragraph -- it nicely captures the essential "take-away" from the article:
Richmond Times Dispatch wrote:So stop raking and blowing leaves and throwing them away. They are not trash. They are a valuable source of nutrients and organic matter for the soil. Mulch mow your leaves, returning them to your soil.
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
Very nice article and congrats on getting it published. I enjoyed reading it. I have a neighbor I should send it to. He's always bagging his clippings, leaves, or anything else in the yard. He's in his low 70's and always complaining on the work involved to push mow his yard. I've tried explaining all of the benefits of mulching and, how much easier it is, but he keeps on bagging. Oh well, more leaves for me to use. Maybe once he sees me using his leaves to mulch in our lawn he will finally believe it. Lord knows our soil here needs all the help it can get.
Once again, congrats on the article!
Once again, congrats on the article!
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
Personally, I would have answered the question of what to do with them by saying "Send them to HLG...."
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
Kudos and great thanks for spreading the word!
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
When I first moved in, my next door neighbor (similar age) had 10-12 bags of clippings at the end of his driveway every week. I would take them and leave them next to my shed until I mowed. We don't have a fence so he had to know exactly what I was doing. Only took him about a month before being a convert. Over time others have caught on, and I actually have to drive a few blocks now in the fall to gather leaves for mulching.Marinegrunt wrote: ↑October 7th, 2017, 7:44 pmMaybe once he sees me using his leaves to mulch in our lawn he will finally believe it. Lord knows our soil here needs all the help it can get.
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
Stop spreading word about the benefits of mulched leaves, it increases competition for free bags of leaf material. If my neighbours find out they are doing me a favor, instead of the other way around, there's going to be a major decline in the free work I get out of them.
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Re: my op ed on mulching leaves
This is the free-couch problem. Put a couch to the curb and mark it free, and it sits there forever. Mark it $500 and it is stolen in no time. You showed the neighbor that the leaves had value, so you no longer get them for free.When I first moved in, my next door neighbor (similar age) had 10-12 bags of clippings at the end of his driveway every week. I would take them and leave them next to my shed until I mowed. We don't have a fence so he had to know exactly what I was doing. Only took him about a month before being a convert. Over time others have caught on, and I actually have to drive a few blocks now in the fall to gather leaves for mulching.
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