2008-06-12
Leaf and limb pickup
If you live in the Athens area, how do you get rid of your leaf and limb waste? At my house we don't employ a lawn maintenance service, so we depend on Athens-Clarke County's leaf and limb pickup service. However, the service is inconvenient and unreliable because it comes around only once every six or seven weeks, and the scheduled pickup is a one-week window -- plenty of time to kill the grass that the waste sits on while waiting to be picked up. (Most municipal pickup services schedule one certain day for a neighborhood, and they collect more frequently. Our service here is underfunded and inadequate.) I don't have a pickup truck to haul off waste, and I'm not going to buy one because I want a fuel-efficient car as my main vehicle and I have no place to park an extra vehicle. Are there any private companies that will haul off leaf and limb waste cheaply?
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How often do you trim stuff/rake leaves? We are fairly lazy about it, so it works out nicely. Also, we have a garage in which to store bags while waiting for our week.
I don't trim and rake very often, fortunately, but it needs to be timed near the pickup week. I kept bags of leaves for several weeks one time, and they bred termites. I don't have any enclosed space to keep them. Do you have some kind of resilient fescue along the roadway that doesn't mind being covered by leaf bags for several days?
I have an area under a tree that already doesn't have any grass on it. And I time raking and such to when the pickup week is.
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