If you really hate the thought of raking leaves and don’t own a leaf blower, this handy tip may help make the task go a bit quicker. We each have been using this technique in our own yards and have found it to be less tiring, and it sort of shakes things up a bit!
Raking leaves gives rise to a pile of leaves, which ultimately gets increasing larger as you go. You don’t think of leaves being heavy or having any ‘weight’, but it never fails, that as the pile becomes larger, more muscle power is needed to push the leaves with the rake.
Here’s the handy tip:
After you have accumulated a pile of leaves, flip the rake over, and use it to push the leaves in the direction you need to move them in. It sort of uses the same motions as shoveling snow or using a shuffle board cue.
Push the leaves into a pile –
or make a path straight to the street curb for pick up (that is, if your community has curb pick up!)
Now, we found that it’s best to use a large (meaning many tines) fan-shaped plastic leaf rake (often referred to as a poly rake), and one that does not have any broken tines. If you use a rake with broken or partially broken tines, your rake won’t slide over the grass and may keep getting caught up in it.
‘Shoveling’
Give it a try, and let us know if you thought that including this technique into your leaf raking was helpful.
