I felt bad for him, I really did. He was new to the neighborhood and obviously cared about his lawn a great deal. The first weekend he spent trimming and edging the long neglected lawn of the house he had just bought, and when I left for work the next morning there on the curb were four bulging bags of leaves sitting, waiting, for a trash truck that would never come. See, our city like many municipalities had decided to stop picking up lawn clippings and bags of leaves. It makes sense, from a practical stand point, because rather than fill up the landfill that plant matter is better returned to the land from which came. But in the short term, what is to be done with all those leaves?
Well, here is one solution that I thought was flat out brilliant. It’s an electric leaf shredder. Basically, we have a funnel that dumps leaves down into the body where a string trimmer chops the leaves into tiny pieces and then deposits the resulting particles directly into a bag. Eleven full bags get condensed down to a single bag; And the resulting particles compost faster so you don’t wind up with a back yard full of leaf bags. The electric leaf shredder is lightweight, stores easily and is available from Clean Air Gardening for $179.99.
