Every year for 15 years, I had the task of cleaning up leaves from Ornamental Pears that surrounded one of my clients house. Each week I would fill my ute with bags and bags of leaves, either raked or mowed.
The process usually involved blowing everything onto the lawns and either sucking them up with the mower or raking into piles and bagging them.
(No, I did not burn them to the ground
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Once the trees had dropped all of their leaves, I would still be cleaning them up well into winter. Pear leaves are very thick and do not break down quickly unless shredded. I also had to do the same thing at three other properties.
I gave the job away at this place due to stress (long story) at the end of last year, I'm more than a little relieved to not be running the autumn leaf gauntlet this year.