I've never seen 99% of the leaves

Geo-TH,In · Nov 9, 2019

I've never seen 99% of the leaves fall off trees in a 24 hour period. So many leaves we spent about 4 hours mulching leaves with Farmall and JD before could use Agr-vac to pick up leaves. Covered about half the garden with leaves. Planning to use leaves next year to cover garden. Hoping leaves will keep moisture in soil and keep the weeds down. I'll post pic below.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 9, 2019

In years past leaves hang around until after Thanksgiving.

Do the the trees think it's going to be an early winter. Gee, can trees think? Do trees have a brain?
George

DR. EVIL · Nov 9, 2019

I took a Mental Health Friday off on Veterans Day about 15 years ago. I had my home-made Trac-Vac lawn vacuum all hooked up ready to go, started on the yard about 12:30/1:00PM Friday afternoon. Son got home from work about 4:30, wife got home about 5:30, I kept running. Son left about 6, and got home around 11. I was still running picking up leaves. Finally done about 2 AM Saturday morning. The light switch on my Cub Cadet failed just as I was unhooking the cart. Fixed that Saturday afternoon, hooked up to lawn aerator. Sunday about 10 AM started aerating, went over whole 2-3/10ths acres twice and done about 9PM. Put 25 operating hours on the Cubbie that weekend.

Buddy came over a mulched leaves ahead of my vacuum one year, he had Gator Blades on his deck. His 169 CC was engulfed in powdered leaf dust, reduced the amount of leaves & clippings I picked up about 50%. Been over 10 years since I've picked up leaves. I block off the discharge chute on the Cub Cadet TANK zero turn and turn the leaves to dust.

wilson ind · Nov 9, 2019

because you live near evil big city My farm and surrounding area has been a very good year for leaves turning slowly . One of the best years for color lasting weeks .

David G · Nov 9, 2019

You will want to add extra nitrogen to the garden to compensate for the leaves.

Mike M · Nov 9, 2019

I am predicting a hard winter by the amount of walnuts my trees have dropped this year which is a lot . The squirrels will be well fed.

Texasmark1 · Nov 9, 2019

I was out fishing yesterday and while I was floating by and fishing around his dock I noticed a guy making circles around his Pecan Trees with his lawnmower. Next he comes out with a bag over his shoulder (big ladies purse type thing) and had his little roll around by hand, Pecan picker-upper. Neat idea.

jm. · Nov 9, 2019

David what he will really need to add is lime to compensate for the acid the leaves bring.

flembo · Nov 9, 2019

We had a hard rain and 40 plus mph winds one night 2 weeks ago and in the morning all my leaves were down. I blew them off with the Cub Cadet and it has stayed clean since, this is the earliest I remember being done with leaf clean up.

Deere Scotty · Nov 9, 2019

I am just west of Indy, & think getting down to 19 degrees the other night did it along with high winds.
One station here now saying we may go into single digits for lows mid week coming. Average high should be about 52-54!
Currently forecasting a low of 10 degrees with highs in the low - mid 20's.

gab · Nov 9, 2019

I didn't have a terrible amount of walnuts this year, had about four out a dozen trees loaded, not many on the other ones. 2017 was a different story, Hope George doesn't see these picts., he'll think I'm a redneck. He does every thing by the book

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 9, 2019

Almost all of the wooly caterpillars I've seen so far have been COMPLETELY BLACK. One had the slightest tinge of orange around its middle.

kcm.MN · Nov 9, 2019

It's normal here for the leaves to fall that quickly. First the Popples (Quaking Aspen) will turn yellow and other colors and, for a very brief time they are beautiful. Just as they reach the height of beauty, if you didn't think to snap a photo, then too bad. Next day those leaves are on the ground. Then about 2 to 3 weeks later, our Oak trees loose their leaves. Unfortunately they only turn brown.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 9, 2019

Jm,
Told you before, my momma didn't raise no fool, except for my siblings. I cleared garden with Hota, Ag lime and 30-0-3 fertilizer.
Going to experiment next spring. Pull leaves back and plant red potatoes close to surface and see if they grow closer to the surface so little digging. Will plant some at normal depth.
George

farmerjohn · Nov 9, 2019

If walnuts predict the winter then I can breathe easy, our walnut tree did not have one nut on it this year.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 9, 2019

Bill,
Do you remember what they called Terre Haute 50 years ago?

farmerjohn · Nov 9, 2019

Our leaves were pretty until Halloween we had 60 mph winds and torrential rain. A friend had a tree in the yard blow over and totaled both of his cars.

wolfman · Nov 9, 2019

Be careful putting leaves in your garden. Leaves have a natural growth inhibiter. This is why a mighty oak can't grow under a maple and crowd it out. Tough to grow anything under a tree!

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