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What do you all do to your yard prior to Halloween. I let my grass grow a little longer than usual, but this year was impossible. I had my 2 ground breakers out in the yard, but my leaves came down so fast that it pretty much covered them up completely. I would like to keep the leaves out there, but not to the point where they cover the decorations completely. I had to mow and rake the leaves twice the week of Halloween.

I hate taking them out each time I have ti clear a path, but if I leave the leaves, my haunt is covered.

What do you all do?

Right before I start setting up in early October, I mow the lawn and make sure it looks good, sometimes a little fertilizer. When the display is up, I make sure to water the lawn, we have three huge trees by the lawn constantly dumping leaves. I just make sure the walkway is kept organized. I don't like it when the lawn dies and gets all crunchy, so I make sure it stays wet.

Does this happen every year in your neck of the woods? Here in NY, the last lawn mowing is early October. By Halloween, the lawn hasn't grown much and just enough leaves fall for added ambience at night time. No need for cleanup prior to the holiday. The leaves make a full drop by Thanksgiving.

Dan

This year, I last mowed at the end of september. By the end of october the grass was about six inches high, and looked just right for my graveyard setting. Not having any trees in our yard, we had to get a few backs of leaves from a neighbor. While everyone else was busy raking leaves from their lawn, I was spreading leaves on mine LOL

I usually mow the first of the month and begin set up, sometimes we need to mow again by Halloween, but hubby has to deal with the props and mow around. I might trim the hedge and the yew columns. But that is all. I like the grass to be a bit long. Our leaves may fall a bit but our Sweetgum tree doesn't usually drop it's leaves until December. Just dribbles them until then unless we get some good cold weather of 50's at night.

Then after Halloween we mow (in Florida the grass could grow all year depending on the weather), trim and edge to make everything nice for the rest of the holiday season.

We're in an area that doesn't get a real winter or fall, so our tree had barely dropped any leaves. It actually works out for us, since we have one of those creepy trees with a wide canopy that blocks the streetlight at ground level, and looks like it belongs in a graveyard.

We stopped mowing the end of September, and the grass was just shaggy enough on Halloween. We usually do fertilizer in December, and depending on the heat, we usually have to water every week to keep the grass from dying, but we had an unusually wet summer, so I didn't have to drag out the hoses.

We need to mow this weekend or else risk getting written up by our neighborhood association.

I was hoping to let it go, but just a week before, I had to cut it... my wife didn't share in my glee over having a creepy, overgrown front lawn.

It does have a fair share of small holes, medium holes, and lots of black and red spray paint all over it, however. Oh, well... It'll be fine.

On the subject of a late fall, it sure is strange... hardly any yellow or orange trees. I've normally raked about three times by now, but there hasn't been nearly enough to do it yet.