Do you have neighbors that ignore fall leaf etiquette? You know, neighbors don’t rake THEIR leaves and wait for a windy day to blow all of their leaves into YOUR yard? Well, I have a fall leaf etiquette solution!
Silt Fence Fall Leaf Etiquette Solution
My neighbors aren’t too bad when it comes to Fall leaf etiquette. Actually, the neighbor next door to me is borderline OCD obsessive about raking her leaves so my problem isn’t her. My first problem is that the front yard of my house sits on a court so I get the leaves from all sides. My biggest problem comes from the back yard in that I live on a golf course – a blessing 10 months of the year but…. It seems like every leaf from every tree from that beautiful golf course blows across their parking lot and into my yard. I’m not even talking about a few bags of leaves, I’m talking dozens.
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Fall Leaf Etiquette Solution – Use a Silt Fence
I drove past a few of the construction sites around town and noticed those black tarp fences that are 2-feet high and stretched between common wood stakes about 10 feet apart. What are these black tarp tiny fences called that indicated borders on construction sites? They’re called “silt fences”. Silt fences are designed to keep construction debris on-site and from pouring over borders and into public streets etc… My questions were 1 – Are they easy to find? and 2 – Are they cheap? The answers are YES and YES.
What Does a Silt Fence Do?
A silt fence is a temporary sediment control barrier used to prevent soil erosion and pollution from construction, farming, or forestry sites. It works by trapping soil and debris from stormwater runoff, allowing water to pass through while keeping sediment from leaving the site and entering waterways or storm drains. Are they used to prevent leaves from blowing onto your yard? No, at least not until now (that I know of)
The silt fence has been great solution to the poor fall leaf etiquette of my pesky golf course neighbors. Silt fences are relatively cheap and extremely easy to install. I got my silt fence at Home Depot. I purchased over 100 feet of it for less than $50. The quality is horrible, but good enough. Just unroll the silt fence on your property lines and hammer in the stakes. The whole silt fence installation took just 10 minutes. I had to use a staple gun on windy days to re-staple the silt fence tarp to the stakes.
My silt fence fall leaf etiquette solution does the trick. This year I’m raking my own leaves and no one else’s. I’ll take the fence down around Thanksgiving. It’s worth the 2 week eyesore in my yard not to have to rake and bag 25 plus yard bags of golf course leaves.
