I have a large deciduous tree that drops a huge amount of leaves on my backyard in winter (the backyard is part shade). This has mean that the grass growing on other parts of the yard (buffalo) ends up being killed off each year by the leaves and then winter grass moves in and blankets the area.
I was wondering if there were any solutions to this (beyond obsessively raking the leaves as soon as they fall). Are there any other types of turf which would do better in this situation?