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cshenk

Dave Smith wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 2015-11-01 2:11 PM, wrote:
>
> > No, I will leave that space blank. The front yard is quite small
> > and all the removed tree did was cause me to be getting up
> > leaves long after everyone was through for the year. There
> > were always leaves in the gutter; buds dropping in
> > January/February on the sidewalk and I could see where a tree
> > root was just beginning to make that sidewalk buckle. Plus that
> > tree was really tangled into the telephone wires going to my
> > house. I have a lovely dogwood tree at the back of my property
> > to enjoy that doesn't create a mess.
>
> I have a couple dozen trees on my property. There are two huge maples
> at the front, and there is a row of maples across the road. Leaf
> raking is not a one day chore here. It goes on for weeks. I should be
> out there now. If I get them over toward the road there is a nice
> strong wind to blow them away. They can go across the neighbour's
> lawn and into the nursery on the other side where they will compost
> and feed the soil.

Groan, I have only 2 small apple trees of my own but i am bounded by
others trees. My least liked neighbor has 7 trees and waits for the
wind to blow most of it to the rest of us. Lets say, we get more mulch
than we need here.

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