Leaves Frozen to the Ground

The quick freeze caught many trees by surprise with their leaves still on. The other issue are leaves frozen to the ground. So how do we get these leaves cleaned up? The EZ way is to wait until spring to deal with the mess. However you may get a break in the weather with a warm up allowing you to get to those leaves, but now they are compacted on the ground. Here is a good trick, you can get an adapter for your mower for lawn thatching that goes on your lawn mower. This is either a blade with a spring wire or wires that go on the front of your mower like this.

The front mount will tear at the leaves and eventually get jammed with leaves but just keep going, it still will disrupt the leaves frozen to the ground enough to be able to pick them up. The blade version is best and it will also dethatch your lawn. This will mean you bag will fill up very fast, so to make it EZ, get a dozen small cheap tarps and put them out on the lawn, dump your bag on these tarps as you go, then take the tarps to the dumping area or throw them in a pickup all at once to speed things up. video demo at www.diylawntime.blogspot.com