It takes a special skill with dandelions. I rely on a little prying tool and it is satisfying to pop those puppies out. I don’t mind them really but trying not to anger the neighbors as I fill the yard with other native flowers.
Subject-Turnover-388
Man it is actually so satisfying.
beeradvice
I’m waiting for it to rain the afternoon before my day off for exactly this
a-passing-crustacean
Ive been trying to pull clumps of field garlic I think its called from my front lawn and when the soil moisture is perfect its so satisfting when the whole thing comes up! Otherwise i just get the tops and my hands just smell like yumminess all day
DungBeetle1983
I’ll pull them in my garden, but let them go wild in my yard.
KudzuPlant
Please don’t pull wildflowers. Even dandelions.
These are the first food that bees have when they begin their lifecycles in the spring time. Without this food, their numbers begin to dwindle. Bees have enough of a hard time in the modern world as it is. Don’t make their lives harder when they literally are the reason we can eat.
A_Harmless_Fly
As someone who’s garden is beset with wild 4’oclock’s 2 foot roots and mallow’s wandering tangle, I mostly get the opposite feeling. I dug and dug and pried… and it still snapped off part way and I’ll just have to do it again in a few weeks.
Dandelions are not native to the Americas, so if you have other early-flowering wildflowers (which produce more protein-rich pollen anyway), pull away!
Favorite dang native plant I have in my area. Greens are good in a salad and the leaves dried along with the flowers make a killer night time tea with a little honey.
I wish this happened with spurge. My gawwwwwwwd, do I hate that stuff. “Spurge is a scourge” is putting it lightly
small-black-cat-290
When I get the entire stringy root of Bermuda grass….
ASpicyCrow
A reminder that you can make them work for you after you pull em out. The whole dandelion plant is edible, and there’s a lot of recipes out there for using every bit of it.
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It takes a special skill with dandelions. I rely on a little prying tool and it is satisfying to pop those puppies out. I don’t mind them really but trying not to anger the neighbors as I fill the yard with other native flowers.
Man it is actually so satisfying.
I’m waiting for it to rain the afternoon before my day off for exactly this
Ive been trying to pull clumps of field garlic I think its called from my front lawn and when the soil moisture is perfect its so satisfting when the whole thing comes up! Otherwise i just get the tops and my hands just smell like yumminess all day
I’ll pull them in my garden, but let them go wild in my yard.
Please don’t pull wildflowers. Even dandelions.
These are the first food that bees have when they begin their lifecycles in the spring time. Without this food, their numbers begin to dwindle. Bees have enough of a hard time in the modern world as it is. Don’t make their lives harder when they literally are the reason we can eat.
As someone who’s garden is beset with wild 4’oclock’s 2 foot roots and mallow’s wandering tangle, I mostly get the opposite feeling. I dug and dug and pried… and it still snapped off part way and I’ll just have to do it again in a few weeks.
https://i.redd.it/d41nwrql6ipg1.gif
Dandelions are not native to the Americas, so if you have other early-flowering wildflowers (which produce more protein-rich pollen anyway), pull away!
https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2024/04/does-leaving-dandelions-my-lawn-benefit-pollinators
It feels like genocide to me.
Favorite dang native plant I have in my area. Greens are good in a salad and the leaves dried along with the flowers make a killer night time tea with a little honey.
Dandelions in WA state be like…
https://preview.redd.it/up3rcx1znipg1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f500b8f81467ec1428023732a6beeb7edbceb87d
How i feel pulling out mallows
Shslsurp chomp chomp chomp.
I wish this happened with spurge. My gawwwwwwwd, do I hate that stuff. “Spurge is a scourge” is putting it lightly
When I get the entire stringy root of Bermuda grass….
A reminder that you can make them work for you after you pull em out. The whole dandelion plant is edible, and there’s a lot of recipes out there for using every bit of it.
I personally love dandelion root tea.