Fall cleanup and leaf removal in Falmouth, Maine.
Most of Falmouth is now forest, as the 2024 Comprehensive Plan puts it — young woods that grew back over nineteenth-century farmland. The land enrolled in the state's Tree Growth program alone includes 333 acres of hardwoods and 625 acres of mixed wood, and neighborhoods sit right against that canopy. By late October a Falmouth lawn can disappear under oak, maple and birch leaves in a week.
Leaves left on turf through a Maine winter smother grass and invite snow mold, so the fall cleanup is about getting the lawn and beds ready to sleep.
What the fall visit covers
Our crews blow and rake leaves off the turf and out of the beds, cut back spent perennials, do the last mow of the season and haul the debris away. Leaves are kept out of the street, too: Falmouth has an ordinance prohibiting non-stormwater discharges to its storm drains, and a gutter full of leaves washes straight toward Mussel Cove and the Presumpscot.
For homeowners doing part of the work themselves, the Public Works Department runs a spring and fall curbside leaf-bag collection, publicized each season, and encourages backyard composting of leaves and garden waste. The transfer station on Woods Road, at the former landfill site, requires an annual resident sticker.
Browntail webs and the fertilizer deadline
Fall is also the start of the browntail moth window. The Maine Forest Service advises clipping winter webs between October and March, before caterpillars emerge in mid-April, and lists oak, apple, cherry, shadbush, beach plum and rugosa rose as hosts. Once the leaves are down, the small silk-wrapped webs at branch tips are easiest to see, and a cleanup visit is a good moment to note them. Falmouth's ordinance exempts browntail moth control from its pesticide prohibitions, though neonicotinoids stay banned.
Timing matters for anyone planning a fall feeding. Falmouth prohibits outdoor fertilizer application from December 1 through March 31, so any late-season application has to be done in November at the latest, and never within 75 feet of a water body or 20 feet of a storm drain.
A cleanup finished before the ground freezes leaves the lawn clear, the beds cut back and the property ready for snow. On large wooded lots near conserved land, a second pass after the oaks finally drop — they hold their leaves longer than the maples — is often what keeps the turf from matting down under the first storm.
Fall Lawn Care · Leaves · Final Mow
How we handle fall cleanup & leaf removal
Oak and maple leaves left on a Maine lawn all winter kill grass in patches. We rake and blow leaves off turf and out of beds, cut back spent perennials, do the last mow of the season and haul the debris.
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