This year I raked them out, mulched them up with the mower/bagger, and put them in the compost pile. I had too much green compost and wanted to balance it out with the leaves. I have leaves from Silver Maple and Sycamore. The maple leaves are small and I leave them in some spots, but the Sycamore leaves are big and trashy. One year I had left them on the beds, and in spring found that rodents had been living and nesting under the layers, and had fattened up on Lily bulbs too.
