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Healthy Beautiful Yards and Gardens don’t need Gas Leaf Blowers
- Using fallen leaves can be extremely helpful in maintaining a healthy and beautiful yard.
- Leave the Leaves! It’s free mulch, provides for healthier gardens and you will see more pollinators and birds in your yard.
- Rather than raking or blowing them into huge piles for removal, leaves can be mulched and / or composted, with numerous benefits.
- By adding organic matter to the soil, mulched leaves improve soil structure and nutrient availability. Clay soils become looser and better draining, while sandy soils gain capacity to hold water. Beneficial microbial activity goes up. Compaction and crusting go down. Best of all, the mulched leaves work themselves into the soil naturally over time — no tilling needed.
- Battery-electric leaf blowers are powerful, reliable, and cost-effective.
- For homeowners, good battery-powered equipment is widely available and affordable.
- At the commercial level, batteries need to last for many hours, and performance needs to be extremely reliable. Fortunately, the last 10 years have seen a “battery revolution” in industry, resulting in rapidly accelerating gains in the power, longevity, and cost-effectiveness of battery-electric tools
- Manual Tools
- Sometimes, old-fashioned tools still perform best. Especially for smaller jobs, rakes and brooms are often faster and more efficient than leaf blowers, which are better suited for large-scale tasks. They are of course cheaper, quieter, and cleaner, as well, with virtually no maintenance.
