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Gator Mulcher blades work very well. I have about five acres of centipede grass, it loves it. As an old dude, it beats raking leaves.

People with A LOT of leaves cannot incorporate them in their yard for the long term! Not if you want a nice lookng lawn. You cannot mulch them small enough!

Irrespective of what it does for the lawn, bagging leaves is for slaves.

You're using a 21" push mower?

Been mulching my whole life. My yard looks better and is healthier than the yards around me. No thatch problems.

I don't have any leaf baring trees on my property... I do have 6 on either side that drops them on my property. I mulch them first in a shrinking circle. I add the grass clipping catch bag to my mower and pick up what I can that is mulched but still lying on top of the grass. They don't all drop at the same time so near the end of our leaf pick-up in the village...I just continue to mulch what ends up on my lawn from neighboring trees till the snow comes. Seems like they are always somewhere waiting to get blown on to my lawn.... where do they hide till then ????

I've been doing this for years .. such a much easier way to do things.

Thanks Greg. Happy holidays

Lots of trees in my 1.5 acres of grass in New England completely surrounded by mature forest. The yard accumulates 18 inches or more of leaves each fall. There’s no way I can mulch that into the grass. It will cover and suffocate the grass. I know because I’ve tried.

We have LOTS of oak leaves/acorns and pine needles fall on our lawn in New England. Since those make the soil more acidic, I rake most of them so I don't have to apply as much lime to my lawn. It's good exercise too and doesn't pollute the air and sound in the neighborhood. Hate hearing all those leaf blowers in the fall!!!

Been mulching leaves for 34 years, sometimes its like plowing leaves, but keep chasing them and you'll get them. I use a zero turn, with mulching blades and discharge blocked off. Having dry leaves helps. It really chops them up to very small pieces 1/8" to 1/4". Have to hit some areas twice, but they just disappear in to the grass.

Hey Greg? But what about spraying liquid fertilizer? Do I have to spray it in the morning also because I'm putting water on the grass? I always water my lawn early in the morning to give my grass plenty enough time to dry out so I don't get fungus. Is it the same principle when you are spraying liquid fertilizer on your lawn? I would prefer to spray around noon instead. But I thought any time you put any amount of water on the grass it has to be in the morning. Thank you.

I have so many oak leaves that I have no other choice but to mulch them with my Scag turf Tiger with mulching kit on it. Works great and never have a problem , I don't worry about anything but getting more leaves next year.

I can attest to what this guy is saying. I had over an acre of grass on my property surrounded by tree's. I used a JD 214 garden tractor with a 48" deck and mulching blades. You block the chute and lower the deck. Just keep riding over the leaves till they literally disappear into the grass. It saves blowing, raking, drop cloths, bagging, trips to the curb or the dump. You never get off the tractor till the leaves are gone ! You couldn't tell the difference if the leaves had been blown off or mulched into the grass. My grass was fine year after year and I did notice considerably less dandelions ! Its very satisfying and more fun than cutting the grass ! So don't rake or blow your leaves ! make them disappear ! One final note: If you get tons of leaves do them as they come down in layers instead of waiting for the full load. You may do it a few times but it will be quick and easy and your lawn will have more time to absorb the mulch.

In a dryer climate, there is an issue with mulching. The mulched leaves will absorb water you put on your lawn. Then the dry air will take back the water from the mulched matter. The grass gets less water this way. So if you live in a dry climate and mulch your leaves, please water extra to break down the mulched matter and assure the grass gets its water. After leaves are absorbed into the ground, you can reduce the watering back to normal

Just did mine in Ohio on Monday. Rain since. Have always mulched my leaves. Started here 20 years ago with mostly clover and weed for greenage. Mow low every time by push mower at 66. It would ruin a twenty something. Plenty of green grass today.

Just what my parent's back yard looked like - they had a number of big trees, shade, and did not bother to feed the grass or correct the soil Ph so they ended up with a yard full of violets and woodland weeds. The one good point is that every spring I could go over to the house and fill a gallon ziplok bag with fresh violet blossoms for salads. (violets are edible)

Mulching the leaves in the spring provides the lawn with free organic fertilizer.

I’ve been doing this since I got a good mulching lawnmower. If there are an abundance of leaves, I use the leaf blower to make a large mound underneath a tree and mulch them in later after they have dried up more and the mound of leaves has shrunk down to about a 1/4 of its original size.

By mulching I save time and gas by going to the compost site so I’m reducing my carbon footprint

We have a lot more leaves than you do, so I need to mulch them in several times or they'll get too thick, for my mower, lol. I've found it works a lot better when the leaves are damp.

Thanks! Yard noobie here

I always run my mower over the leaves every fall, works good for me

Makes sense that it would control dandelions.

I live in the transition zone with St Augustine grass, and I have found mowing at 2"-2.5" has prevented a buildup of dead stolon's/ thatch. The other benefit I found is I am able to power rack my grass coming out of dormancy in the spring to remove the dead blades of grass without removing stolon's.

I understand the practice of spoon-feeding fast release fertilizers. I have watched videos of people spoon feeding slow release, what's the benefit of spoon-feeding slow release?

Definitely recommend the 3m worktunes Bluetooth headphones. Great for riding mower, shooting etc. The spigot Bluetooth timers I have are great as well, can't remember the brand right now but they make watering at 6am much easier otherwise I have to do it manually in the evening. They also are great for new grass seeds going off a few times a day for you while you're at work

I was really grateful to see this video. I have always either mulched back into the lawn or put the leaves into the compost. It seems really obvious to me. Some years I do nothing. I don’t care what anyone else thinks. My grass just keeps growing, no matter what I do!

Glad to hear as I started doing that about 10 years ago.

Cool tip. How my house is located, I have a long street directly west of my back yard wall (corner lot). So, with our crazy west winds, I am fighting leaves blown in all winter. And of course the trees down that street are fruitless Mulberry (big leaves). 🍁

Hi greg. I have a question; every time i spray fert with my ortho hose end sprayer, i spray no later than 8 am because ive had brown patch a couple yrs in a row and im afraid if i spray my fert around noon that, that will keep my grass wet going into night. Am i correct spraying my ortho early in the morning just like i also water my lawn early? I see on videos people spraying in the afternoon but then when they give advice on watering, they say to water early in the morning. Sounds contradictory a bit because both are putting water on the lawn. I really hate getting up so early to spray but i feel i have to. Am i correct that even spraying fertilizer that it should also be done very early as well? Thank you.

I think maybe there has been confusion about leaves over the years. If you don't do anything with them it will most likely have a negative effect on low areas of the yard where they accumulate and choke out the grass. Possibly that is where the negativity comes from?? Anyway either mulch or remove them, I always mulch mine.

Each year a tree grows enough leaves to fertilize itself. Mulching leaves also improves tree health

Great content and information. My weed control is down to a 1 gallon broadleaf control 2 to 3 times per year and no pre for the past 7 years. I will be trying this method with some liquid N and iron next season. Being a former gcs I would not thouught of doing this before even though we had to think outside the box many times. After 45 years in the business its fun to have the test plots and not the worries. Enjoy tour page and content.

Nineteen years ago when I started mulching, my bro told me I'd kill my lawn with low pH. I replied that was my goal, so I wouldn't have to mow it, but the lawn keeps coming back every spring greener than ever. When, O when, will it die!?

I just crank up the ol' J-D riding mower and mulch. I have been doing it that way for35 years.

Im surrounded by trees, when I mulch it so much that it kills my grass. nothing grows. its gotta be taken out or blown out.

About a third of my lot is woods. I blow the leaves into the woods then mulch them there.

I bought a mulching mower 10 years ago and I don’t have dandelions anymore and my lawn is the first to green up in the spring

Been doing this for years!

Yeah sure years ago I followed the mulch leaves into the lawn BS……killed the grass and wound up with a lawn of mud……if there are not many leaves yes ….lawn clippings yes….Otherwise clear them off…..

Lol, man, I'm going to show this to my husband because you're a man, and second, you've done it for years. We argue over this procedure often, and so I've given up and he does all the yard work in the fall now because I'm not wasting my time or back pain. He claims it kills off the grass. Lmao, oh Lordy.

I live in ohio I mulch my leaves the last 34yrs lawn is green every spring..you either mulch or rake the leaves can smother your lawn during winter early spring 😊

1. Turf grass is one of the most environmentally irresponsible things you can do as a homeowner. It isn't native, requires massive amounts of water, not to mention the fertilizer, and running your gas powered lawn mower for an hour emits more CO2 and toxic emissions than your car does in like 500 miles of driving. 2. Lots of beneficial insects overwinter or lay eggs in dead leaves. By raking them up, you reduce the populations of these beneficial bugs. But hey, if your only goal is to make your neighbors jealous by maintaining your turf grass lawn like the back 9 at St. Andrew's, by all means, keep it up.

When I mulch, my leaves always spit out to the right, so I just make sure I mow in a square pattern to where everything is mulched over and over until the square is smaller and smaller.

Why is fall better for testing PH, then any other time?

I mulch the leaves then go over with a bagger. The bagger gets a lot while making the lawn look nice and clean. The leaves that get down into the grass that don't get bagged decompose doesn't get easier.

I've been living in my home for 46 years now. For about 40 of those years I have been Mulching my leaves into my grass. I have one of the best looking lawns on my block with few, if any dandelion weeds.

in October a skunk kept coming out at night and left my lawn full of holes.I don't know if it was finding any, but it kept trying. If I kill the grubs will the skunk still smell them and try digging them up?

Ok quick question. Let’s assume you do some dormant seeding in the late fall or early winter and the next spring it looks like the seed is germinating as hoped. Can you still apply a pre-emergent fertilizer in the spring (before soil temps reach 55) like you normally would? Or is that off limits now given the new grass coming in? Thank you