This was the last time the yard was clean, I gave up some weeks ago, the leaves, they just hung there so long, a long harvest this year for sure. The leaf dump in our woods is knee high with the fruits of my labor.
That is a good sized apple, you could thatch a roof with a handful of leaves.
They were huge.
Did you see these spots on any of your leaves? My yard was full of them as I have a few maples.
I also spied it on leaves in some other parts of Town while on our stroll.
It was localized.
When I spotted it on fallen leaves I thought how did tar get on these leaves?
The same morning I saw it on leaves still clinging to branches on trees near the river.
So I went looking for the black tar like spots.
Rhytisma Acerinum, commonly called Tar Spot!.
Just a fungus of the natural world that needs no control.
Fungus, the largest living organism on Earth.
Its time to clean the gutters now, the leaves are down.
Mike
The Exeter Town Crier 