Remember where the sun is late in the day in January-February. We have great late day sun and reflection from the lake into our little beach house where our plants were started last January. The beach house has windows south and west.
We’re buried in oak, sycamore and other tree leaves and only half are down. I am blowing the leaves into wind rows, then scooping them up with a big trash can, then into the burn barrels. As long as the breeze is light, I can burn safely...
We have a burn barrell/pile for trash. However we pile the leaves up and encircle them with chicken wire for use in the gardens as leaf mulch.