Beginner Gardening: Oak leaves a detriment to grass?, 1 by themoonhowl

themoonhowl wrote:
I have a mix of St Augustine and centipede grass in my yard. I have a large old Live oak and a large Pin oak. My husband has a lawn sweeper that he runs after mowing (cutting the leaves with the mower helps them break down faster). Everything goes into the mulch bin.

We limbed up the Live oak some to allow better light and made the area under it a shade garden.Whatever leaves fall there pretty much stay there. As for the pin oak, the grass grows quite well under it. I have a circular bed around it full of gingers hostas and indigofera...biggest problem is keeping the grass out of the bed. Check out this link

http://iloveturf.com/library/articles/oak-leaves-do-not-kill...

in this pic you can see both trees, the pin oak is to the right