neighbors and being lazy with leaves!

[Callie]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people are too lazy to pick up their leaves and put them in either a bag or trash can! They just plop them on the curve, and don't even wet them down.

Therefore, they all come blowing into other peoples yards! My mom's house has one tiny tiny pear tree, yet we get a massive amount of the lazy neighbors leaves. Barely ANYONE contains them. My mom is the nice one who makes sure they are all bagged up or put in a can at least!

Today I was being a nice daughter and went over and decided to pick up the newest bunch. I used her handheld leaf blower/suck up thing (sucks and mulches at the same time) and it took me nearly TWO hours to do just our front yard which isn't that big.

Anyone else deal with this?

 

[runwad]

Well in my town we just rake them to the devil strip and the city comes with a big truck and sucks them up. You could always be like my neighbor; he blows all the leaves from my tree that fall in his yard back into my yard

 

[carrie1626]

Well in my town we just rake them to the devil strip and the city comes with a big truck and sucks them up. You could always be like my neighbor; he blows all the leaves from my tree that fall in his yard back into my yard

They are your leaves

I have no trees in my backyard. Last weekend I spent over 6 hrs leafblowing, raking, wheelbarreling to the curb and mulching with the lawnmower rider.
Oh yeah and 8 extra strength Tylenol, 4 on FRI and 4 on Sat.

If I didn't love my neighbor, I would blow the leaves back, too.

 

[JVL1018]

If you put them in a can or a bag here, they'll sit in that can or bag. LOL

Rake or blow them into the street by the curb and the town will pick them up. No other option. Yes, they blow back, but it's part of the fall. 90% of the leaves in my yard are from the neighbor's trees to begin with. LOL I have 2 small trees in my front yard, 1 small dogwood in the back. The neighbors tree in the front drops on his lawn and blows onto mine. He also has a huge tree that hangs over my backyard , practically no leaves fall in his yard, all in mine. I get the lovely shade all summer, only fair I deal with the leaves in autumn.

 

[Ceila]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people are too lazy to pick up their leaves and put them in either a bag or trash can! They just plop them on the curve, and don't even wet them down.

Therefore, they all come blowing into other peoples yards! My mom's house has one tiny tiny pear tree, yet we get a massive amount of the lazy neighbors leaves. Barely ANYONE contains them. My mom is the nice one who makes sure they are all bagged up or put in a can at least!

Today I was being a nice daughter and went over and decided to pick up the newest bunch. I used her handheld leaf blower/suck up thing (sucks and mulches at the same time) and it took me nearly TWO hours to do just our front yard which isn't that big.

Anyone else deal with this?

Raking them to the curb is what we are told to do here, because they are collected by the township. A huge leaf "vacuum" is used, so bagging them is obviously not an option. And honestly, I've never seen a lot of leaves blowing around from the piles, and sometimes the piles are there for a month or more.

 

[zurgswife]

I just leave mine where they fall and they turn into soil.

 

[dsneprincess]

I just leave mine where they fall and they turn into soil.

Me too!!!

 

[Bonniec]

I just leave mine where they fall and they turn into soil.

LOL Me too...up until this thread I never even considered that maybe I was being rude. Oopsies!

 

[disykat]

At our old house,we had a tree that was the biggest tree in the neighborhood. The mailman parked his truck under it for lunch every day because it was the best shade on his route.

I had some neighbors that would complain about our tree. I just ignored them. That tree had been there for at least 30 years. Surely they didn't expect me to come rake the leaves out of their yards?

I was amused when our tree got "sick" and people would knock on the door to see what we were going to do about it. We paid for an arborist to come out and we were able to fix it. People would have been devastated.

Falling leaves are a pain for a few months, but I think the rest of the year makes it worthwhile.

 

[Hrhpd]

I just leave mine where they fall and they turn into soil.

It is nature. In Disney terms: The circle of life. Soil, seed, tree, leaves, soil. We learned it about it in third grade

I welcome any neighbor who has a problem to come and mark each and every leaf on my tree in the summer with a sharpie. I will then gladly come pick up my leaves in the fall

Glad all our neighbors are on the compost plan. With our winds, the leaves end up in open space within a week.

 

[hereyago]

Lol. My neighbor across the street is butt tight about leaves and grass,even though he has burnt his grass from cutting it too much and to short. if 1 leave is in his yard away it goes, he has too much time on his days off lol. I don't do any raking I have 1 small tree the one next door is huge and it goes over to my yard then bitt tight guy is like u know,they pick up loose leaves gteice then u have to bag.and I tell him if he doesn't want leaves he needs to put a bubble over his yard.

 

[Mel522]

Well in my town we just rake them to the devil strip and the city comes with a big truck and sucks them up. You could always be like my neighbor; he blows all the leaves from my tree that fall in his yard back into my yard

My neighbor cuts off any branches from my tree that reaches over the fence. Any leaves that the wind takes over the fence are thrown back in my yard. I'm not sure how he separates leaves from my tree and his tree though.

Whenever I'm wondering my back yard and look up at my tree with the branches crudely cut off at the property line, I pick a leaf and throw it over the fence

 

[Bonniec]

Whenever I'm wondering my back yard and look up at my tree with the branches crudely cut off at the property line, I pick a leaf and throw it over the fence

 

[AKL_Megs]

We are a "who cares" neighborhood. About 75% of our neighbors maple hangs over our driveway. Probably 40% of our maple blows into their yard. Our other neighbor has no trees, so it really sucks for him. In the end, they all get blown/raked into the street and taken away.

 

[Hannathy]

I haven't bagged a leaf since my DD was about 10 and got those orange bags that look like pumpkins. Until we stop cutting the grass they get ground up into a mulch with the mower and then after that they stay wherever they blow or decompose.

 

[lillygator]

i get to thank the dis daily that i live where i do.

 

[Ceila]

i get to thank the dis daily that i live where i do.

so true!

 

[shortbun]

So glad there are lots of sane people on this thread. We live in a highly maintained yard neighborhood so we rake-once. We have compost in the back corner so DH sends the boy out to move the leaves once too. Until the snow covers the remaining leaves, I duck as I drive through the neighborhood. My neighbors are pretty snooty and they notice everything. My husband grew up farming and to him, there are supposed to be piles of things laying around. I keep telling him .75 acres is NOT a farm.

 

[RitaE]

Our neighborhood is 2 acre lots that back up to a forest preserve. Our fall leaf removal isn't measured in terms of hours, but days. My husband has a big leaf sucking thing that attaches to the back of the lawn mower. We build huge 6 to 7 foot piles of leaves and then burn them.

Last weekend the neighborhood was so smokey from everybody burning that driving around was like driving through heavy fog.

Bagging? We'd eventually need our own private landfill just to throw our bags of leaves into.

 

[aprilgail2]

Well in my town we just rake them to the devil strip and the city comes with a big truck and sucks them up. You could always be like my neighbor; he blows all the leaves from my tree that fall in his yard back into my yard

My friend has people that live behind him that will actually rake up the leaves from his tree that fall on their side and then dump them back overthe fence onto his side!

My neighbor cuts off any branches from my tree that reaches over the fence. Any leaves that the wind takes over the fence are thrown back in my yard. I'm not sure how he separates leaves from my tree and his tree though.

Whenever I'm wondering my back yard and look up at my tree with the branches crudely cut off at the property line, I pick a leaf and throw it over the fence

I cut back my neighbors tree off of the property line too- you can cut anything in your "air space" that hangs over the fence! Luckily I have nice neighbors and they let me have a tree company come and cut all the lower hanging branches back right at the tree trunk so I won't have to keep cutting them back when they grow! I HATE trees and have none on my property, I hate leaves falling into my gutters and pool- Hurricane Gloria took care of three trees on my property for me, the town took cake of 2 more (they were on the strip of property that I have to cut but belongs to the town so I gave them the honor of getting rid of those trees on "their" property when they lifted up and cracked my sidewalk on one side and the other grew into my sewer line and broke it. The last 2 trees I had taken down myself. And after this last storm my neighbor is thinking about taking down that tree that I had cut back on their property- life is good!
My neighbor on the other side of me used to have a tree in his front yard- he was always nice about the fall though, when all his leaves would end up on my front lawn he would be over raking them all up.