) got wrestled into the back seat of my two door car. I'm sure it would have been quite an amusing process to watch. Then my groceries ended up on the shelf under the rear windshield. 
Yeah me too, but I have truckloads of leaves not 3 min from my house. Of course I have to rake or shovel them up, but it's basically limitless for me.Ermintrude wrote:The image of you folks rushing round grabbing bags of leaves has given me a good laugh.
Gix, in the legal sense, we are not stealing. Once people set out their trash on public byways, it becomes the property of the public. Admittedly, my actions look deceptive, done under the cover of darkness. However, that's a courtesy. In a day and age of continual solicitation of our elderly by all kinds of unscrupulous parties, many of them, my mother included, dread answering the door to a stranger. By not pounding on their doors late at night, I probably spared the homeowners unnecessary stress.gixxerific wrote:By the way, those of you stealing leaves in the cover of darkness. I aint' down with that, I go out in morning with full sun. Really who's gonna mess with a psycho like me piling my truck full of leaves off the side of the road.
Sorry, Gix. I seriously thought you were questioning our (read: my) moralitygixxerific wrote:Hold on now Stella, I'm not downing you at all. I'm an anarchist by all means.
I was not saying you are bad by doing what you are doing. You took me all wrong. I applaud you for it as a matter of fact. I was just making a joke about hiding in the shadows, where being the self proclaimed nutcase I am don't hide and do it front of everyone. No offense Stella sorry If I came off that way.
I had fun justifying the exercise, though, laughing while I wrote that I probably deserved a medal for stealing leaves, so we're good. Criminal acts are all about perception, I suppose. I steal leaves. I like stealing leaves and will probably continue to do so. When you get to be my age, you take your fun where you can get it. 
Welcome to the gang, Ermintrude! I had a run in this year with contaminated compost from the municipal compost site, so I am determined not to have to use any of its compost again. I think I got enough leaves to get me through the year, but as my compost piles continue to shrink during what is proving a warm November, I am starting to regret not having gotten all 30 bagsErmintrude wrote:Well guys you have got me at it. Was down the street looking for piles of leaves. Did not fancy loading them up in the dark but will be out first thing tomorrow. Driving around I find myself spotting new sources.
I really hope that mixing them next year with grass clippings I will get much better compost.
Had a bit of a run in with contaminated manure this year so am looking for something else to feed to my beans.
by hook or by crook, compost happens I think I can speak for the rest us by saying "We don't have any idea what you are talking about. We were at home drinking cocoa and playing with kids while watching TV"The Helpful Gardener wrote:"The Management neither condones nor decries the pernicious purloining of arboreal detritus, neither does it object or attest to the exchange of information leading to, or deriving from, any less than legal behavior on the part of any of the clinical kleptomaniacs that seem to congregate here. Indeed, the Management wants to make clear it's position, that it was blindfolded, with it's fingers in it's ears, making the NANANANANANANANA noise the entire time.
Honest.
The Management"
Y'all give a whole new spin on guerilla gardening...
HG
LOL, Rainbow. HG and Lazygirl, too. I always laugh when I read a new posting on this thread.rainbowgardener wrote:Kleptomania var. folium is becoming an addiction.... I was driving home from work after dark and happened to spot some more curbside bags of leaves. Couldn't stop myself from screeching my car to a halt on the wrong side of the road, leaping out, throwing a couple bags in my trunk, and zooming off again. I probably already had enough without these extra ones, for my small property, but you never know and next spring if I'm wishing I still had more fall leaves there won't be any around for the taking...
So I'm telling myself that I'm done now, I don't need to keep watching the roadsides for leaves, but I don't know if I can give up the thrill of the hunt!
I see it's a *Pandemic*. and Gixx Hilarity all around! 
Sounds like a smart guy. What I don't bag for garden purposes ends up on the lawn. I'm gonna do the ACT treatment this year on the lawn. I need to find one of those siphons for your faucet that suck it up out of the bucket and adds it incrementally.The Helpful Gardener wrote:Smartest organic fella I know is [url=https://plantscapesorganics.com/]Mike Nadeau at Plantscapes[/url]who teaches for NOFA, and Mike stopped leaf removing and went to mowing/mulching on a lot of his properties, and years later he's still a fan; likened it to topdressing with compost. With a squirt of compost tea on top of it to get the ball rolling? Fuhgeddiboutit...
HG
I would think it is pressure driven, like a pump of sorts. All you should have to do is hook the siphon to your spicket than the siphon tube into a bucket. The flow of water should pull what is in the bucket out at a slow ratio. They would I assume have a back flow preventer on it to keep water from the hose going into the bucket. What brand is it is it? I would be happy to try and help you figure it out.applestar wrote:When you get one, can you explain to me how it's supposed to work because I have one and have not been able to get it to work correctly. It seems like a simple enough device....
" You better get those!.. huh did he? I can only hope that some deranged leaf-o-maniac came behind me with a car full of kids or maybe a dog and carried the leaves I left behind to leaf heaven... I get spiders, earwigs and other small critters with the leaves I collect from a near by park. Only issue is when they crawl on me, as I hand move the leaves to my pilesrainbowgardener wrote:I was working on using some of the leaves that I have brought home, people's yard waste bags at the curb, for mulch. While I was doing that a very large japanese beetle crawled out of the bag. It made me worry a little, what all have I been bringing home with the leaves. I didn't see any others, but who knows about eggs.
Anybody else having issues like this with your bags of leaves?
Incidentally Sky Kero, congratulations on becoming a full-fledged composter very rapidly!
yes but I kill ant colonies on site, many are attacking my vines, citrus plants and a few others. these guys like to put [url=https://www.oisat.org/images/softscale.jpg]scals[/url] on every plant they can and have multiple colonies surronding my property.soil wrote:the ants were just aerating your pile. by the time its ready to harvest that compost I doubt they would still be there.
) I have great luck with baking powder for my ants. Whenever I see 'em starting to swarm or whatever it is that makes them crawl around in black masses, I sprinkle them and the surrounding area with baking powder. Within days, they have moved on. I read somewhere that they hate baking powder, and based on my experiences, it's true. 
