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The last leaf cleanup should come after your latest trees drop but before the first lasting snow. Here is how to time it, what to clear, and what you can leave.

Leaf removal prices vary with yard size, tree cover, how many visits you need and whether leaves are hauled away. Here is how to estimate your own cost and compare it with doing it yourself.

Slopes collect leaves and make them dangerous to stand on. Here is how to clear a hill safely, how to measure the grade, and which machines are rated for it.

A robot mower will chop a light scatter of leaves as it passes, but it has no bag and is not built to shred a deep layer. Here is what each kind of machine does with fall leaves.

Yes. Yarbo makes a leaf blower module that rides on a self-driving tracked robot. Here is how it finds its way, where it sends the leaves, and what it will and will not do.

Yes. A mower with a lifting blade and a collection bag works as a leaf vacuum. Here is how the airflow does it, what gets in the way, and what to look for in a mower that handles fall.

A blower moves leaves somewhere else. A vacuum picks them up and shrinks them. Here is how to choose by yard size, where the leaves need to end up and how much of the work you want to do yourself.

CFM is how much air a blower moves. MPH is how fast that air travels. Here is what each number does to a pile of leaves and how to read them together.

Mulch when the leaf layer is thin enough to shred, bag when it is not. Here is how to tell, what each method costs you in time, and how to switch between them.