What to do with all your leaves!

Hey there, this is Marvin Salcido with Salcido Lawn, and I'm out here today mulching up some leaves. I wanted to talk to you about leaves for a moment. I got asked a question the other day about why we don't bag all of our leaves and just wanted to talk with you all about that. A recent study by the University of Michigan showed that mulching up your leaves and letting them decompose on your lawn and then feeding your lawn with like a nitrogen-based fertilizer, will actually help improve your soil. It'll save you tons and tons of work, you won't have to keep adding other nutrients because these leaves break down and help improve your soil, making it much better. So if you want to do this yourself, go out and mulch your leaves up. I actually have on the side of our mower here, a mulch plate, so it doesn't side discharged and shoot everything out, but it recirculates inside the mower and allows it to cut the leaves up into tiny pieces and then it just decomposes in the soil. Now the thing is, sometimes when there are massive amounts of leaves on the ground and we mulch over them it does get too thick to leave on the grass. So at that point, what we do is after we mulch everything up real good, we'll come back behind and we'll rake a layer of that those leaves up and we'll bag them up and take them away because you can almost suffocate your soil or your grass, and you don't want to do that. So make sure that when you mulch it up that it's not completely covering your grass, but it leaves just a good nice little layer, and actually you almost don't want to see it you want it to fall inside between the blades of grass. So if you have any questions please leave a comment below and give us a shout, again Marvin Salcido with Salcido Lawn and you all have a wonderful day.