Maridell, how many maple sprouts would you like to have to replace the one you had to remove? You can run your lawn mower over the leaves and just let them rot down to enrich the soil or rake them up and put them into piles inside rings of find mesh wire, plastic bags, or tilled into the soil in the fall. Leaves contain all the nutrients the tree has taken from the earth which makes them the almost perfect soil amendment and conditioner. Worms love them.
