I don’t do anything with my leaves. The guys who mow our lawn come and blow all of the leaves into this big field behind our back yard (the guy who owns the landscaping company owns the field). Then, many of the leaves blow back into my yard. It looks like fall, which I love, so I don’t really mind. Once the leaves are back in that field, they’re usually in one or two very, very large piles. I set my kids loose on them. They like to climb this one tree and jump down into the leaf piles, bury each other, and have leaf fights. We did this yesterday, and afterward I even had leaf bits in my underwear. :) I like the idea of mulching the leaves, and if everything I planted didn’t die I might try that. Right now I am using my rabbit’s litter as fertilizer. I won’t know until spring how that works out, but I’m hoping my tomato plants like it.