I got a fee large oaks and over a dozen trees in my little 1/4 acre lot. My particular neighborhood there's no burning allowed. My only option is rake and bag or, as it seems to be the trend this year, mulch.

One section of my lawn, I'm saying screw it and I'm mulching like a mad man, to the point of it being an experiment. Normally I bag about 80 bags of leaves. This year I'm at 20 and basically done bagging for the year. My one section of lawn i keep mowing and mowing and mowing. Only 1 session when the bulk of leaves dropped while I didn't have time for 3-5 days did i nag leaves up.

I gotta say, so far the lack of hard work is amazing. I'll double mow just to get leaves really diced up. I have noticed leaves will settle in clumps at low points. For the most part the grass sticks up above the leaf debris. I'll make a post next spring to say how well or poorly my grass has dealt with the onslaught of heavy leaf mulching. Literally it's changed the color of the ground I've mulched so much on that one section. I'll keep doing laps to keep dicing it up until after Thanksgiving. I'm sure my neighbors think I'm nuts. But I ain't got time for all that raking, blowing, and bagging. I do know I've got heavily compact clayey soil. So maybe this'll help. Or kill it all, oh well. Just let it piss my one grump neighbor more.