Some Plymouth Residents Choose Not To Rake The Fallen Leaves On Their Lawns

Jim MacKay reports. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ah, the soundtrack of fall, the scrape of the rake
on the front lawn, furiously gathering those endlessly falling leaves.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
We're at here from middle of October, so the first
weekend the summer.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Leslie and her husband Thomas, and Plymouth.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Will soon be busy raking, but only to a point.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
We've just bought a new electric lawn marks. We've got
a nice new feature and.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
It has a melting blade on it. Already.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Mulching some of those leaves or just leaving a layer
of them on your lawn is good for your grass
soiled even helps.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
The food ecosystem.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
We intend to use that pretty soon those leaves will
be falling.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Maybe spend those saturdays enjoying some of that nice sunshine instead.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Yeah, the weather's been perfect.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Without my rake in Plymouth. JIMMICKAWBZ, Boston's news radio