By: Sayward

Sayward — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:36:20 +0000

@ Nathan – That’s awesome! Wow, I had no idea they made electric versions! That sounds like a really great tool, thanks for the heads up. And congrats for going the green route. I love hearing this stuff! =)

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:32:18 +0000

Green building made me buy a leaf blower!
Here in the DC area, the Chesapeake Bay and Anacostia River are very threatened by chemicals and silt build-up from stormwater run-off. So instead of paving the driveway on my brand new eco-manse, I put down two layers of cardboard (from appliance and flooring boxes) to act as landscaping fabric, then covered it with river stone gravel. This will allow rain water to percolate down through the ground, recharging the aquifer, feeding the trees, and keeping that much more crap out of the river and the bay.
So what’s that got to do with leaf blowers? I can’t get the leaves out of this large diameter gravel with a rake, and if I just leave them there they’ll compost into a nice weed bed in a few years. So I went the greenest route I could with a power tool: my new plug-in electric leaf blower is also a mulching vacuum, so I suck the leaves off the gravel and dump a fine mulch from the collection bag onto the garden beds, as you suggest.

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