elbow grease is the answer that im sure no-one wants to hear i just dig the soil around them as deep as possible and pull them up manually. no chemicals used, and i find it therapeutic holding a near foot long piece of root in my hand! nothing satisfies more than a bit of good old fashioned hard work
I love Dandelions! I try and let them just do their thing! when they establish well they get such huge sunny yellow flowers! I don't understand why people dislike them so much!
I feed the leaves to my tortoises. I find that after routinely picking all the leaves off the same plant time and again has weakend those growing in the lawn (as they havn't been able to produce their own food) and naturally 'killed off' the tap root. No digging, no chemicals, no dandilions in the lawn!
Dandelion leaves are better for you than spinach or Broccoli. Such a shame people don't understand our Weeds..What with the food content and medical use.
This may be a silly question, but if I remove the heads from dandelions before they seed, am I just effectively deadheading them so they'll flower for longer? I've been doing this for a few days - and every day, there they are - but have just left the flower heads lying on the grass, not collected them for disposal or composting. Will the lopped-off heads seed anyway if I carry on like this? I don't want to use weedkillers (even glyphosate is now being given a bad press I see). I am in two minds about getting rid of them altogether anyway, because they are valuable wildlife plants for insects, but I don't want the grass totally covered in them either!
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Derek's right . Salt really isn't the solution.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
young leaves yummy in salad
elbow grease is the answer that im sure no-one wants to hear
i just dig the soil around them as deep as possible and pull them up manually. no chemicals used, and i find it therapeutic holding a near foot long piece of root in my hand! nothing satisfies more than a bit of good old fashioned hard work
I love Dandelions! I try and let them just do their thing! when they establish well they get such huge sunny yellow flowers! I don't understand why people dislike them so much!
I feed the leaves to my tortoises. I find that after routinely picking all the leaves off the same plant time and again has weakend those growing in the lawn (as they havn't been able to produce their own food) and naturally 'killed off' the tap root. No digging, no chemicals, no dandilions in the lawn!