01/25/2022
🚨🚨🚨Important🚨🚨🚨
Instead of throwing away raked leaves this season, we encourage you to make use of them in your Louisiana lawn. Shredding or chopping leaves and integrating them back into soil is one of the most cost-effective ways to nourish your lawn (while supporting the environment). Think of it as a free fertilizer — one that every Louisiana homeowner should take advantage of this season.
In addition to the direct benefits mulched leaves have on lawn health, this practice also comes with innate benefits for the environment. Consider landfill space, for instance. The EPA reported that in 2015, yard trimmings (including leaves) accounted for nearly 35 million tons of waste — with almost 11% of that waste going into landfills. Mulching leaves into lawns helps to cut back on this waste, freeing up existing landfills and negating the need to build more of them.
