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31 Comments
Can I ask why the graft union of the tree needed to be facing north on the crab apple tree you planted? Thanks!
I'm with you Brian I would never ever plant dandelions on purpose.
The dandielions come back every year they are horrible. Please excuse my English I’m don’t live in a English speaking country
I hate dandelions too , but try and leave them in the back area away from the house because the bees love the flowers ( and in the mountains where the bears are, you leave them,as the flowers are a good source of protein for them!).
Who knew?🤷♀️
When I make my gopher baskets I use the clips and plyers that are used for making rabbit cages. really easy to use and quite cheep. Can be purchased at most feed stores, better than trying to bend little pieces of wirer.
personally, id rather have dandelions than grass. come the dry part of summer, they and clover are the only green things in the lawn.
im near buffalo. the seeds survive our winters.
NO Dandelions are Not killed by cold temperatures.. at least not here in Ontario..
& I have lived in both southern & northern Ontario.
I've not been as far north in Ontario as like up around James Bay or Hudson Bay & that's more permafrost ground than regular soil. So that's something I cannot answer..
And most people here consider it a weed & a nuisance, tho there's a really big push for us to leave our dandelions to flower at least once, in the early spring ~ for food for the waking bees & other pollenators while they wait for all the flowers & tree blossoms.
Makes for an interesting battle at my house Brian.. cuz my husband would like to eradicate dandelions from our lawn, & have beautiful green short grass.
My daughter's rabbits love to eat the dandelion leaves, & they are supposed to be good for rabbits.. add in the bees.. and well, there's my "pet concern" .. we will have a fair few dandelions every spring. Then slowly weed them out of the lawn over the summer.
They sure never seem to stop coming back year after year.. lol.. & I've never seen "dandelion seeds" for sale in my 45 years of gardening. Doesn't mean they are not for sale somewhere.
I have seen dandelion Greens for sale at the grocery stores in the spring. But not often, or in recent years. Never tried them.
And, the grass gets waaay tooo long too, if you wait for the first dandelion flowers to bloom on mass..
But, I'm thinking, after all the gardening channels I've been following since last fall, I could just take that long grass, dry it out & use it for mulch in my garden..
Now to convince my husband .. even if we only do part of the lawn .. we've lost Soooo many bees over the past 10 years, here in southern Ontario..
Thank U for the treasure trove of gardening videos of yours I have found online.
I'm really hoping to have a much better year gardening with some of the things I really didn't Know about gardening, even though I have had them over much of my life.. ❤
Love the basket idea. I have a Gopher service that traps them. That's alot to go through when a few traps could help solve your problem. He comes regularly, so we keep things under control. As far as dandelions, they are full of vit c and are great for the chickens, down to the roots. The flowers make for more healthy orange egg yolks. So good for the chickens. My Grandma used to make dandelion wine on occasion.😂
😂😂😂 You can eat dendilion in small amounts hidden amongst salad and stuff. I am not crazy about it but I don't mind it either. I happen to like bitter greens. I will try to cook it in a few different ways and let you know if it's more acceptable.😂😂😂. I did started laughing when you said that because I was one of the people that said it. Even if they die over the winter, there's plenty of seeds and will come back. Brian, somethings take a while to get used to eating, I am not telling you to do it, I just wanted you to be aware of it and maybe dry some for tea. When you need stuff like this, you would be surprised how you do it. You can also put it in empty capsules and take it this way if needs be. Anyway, I loved your honest reaction! Priceless! 🤗❤️
I bought a home a couple years ago that had over 50 fruit trees. The original owner had planted all of the trees about 5 years before. He used the cages for the same reason. They did not rust and they stunted the growth of the trees. It was a huge pain to get them out. I live about a mile from the ocean in Northern California, so you would think if they were going to rust it would be here. We have become very good gopher hunters and jump on it as soon as we see a new hole.
Why do you face the graft North?
I had no problem with the butt shot. Thanks
Agreed on dandelions, weed where I live too! Which crabapple tree did you purchase? I live in Los Gatos/San Jose area zone 9-10 and looking into buying one also. I am so glad to have a channel to watch that is somewhat the same climate as mine. I am concerned about your gopher "underground" causing sliding on your property, especially after this wet weather we have been experiencing this year. No complaints about the water, for sure. Will you be adding more classes to the School of Traditional Skills? Have enjoyed your input. Thanks
I live in Ohio's Amish Country area, and the restaurants serve a dandelion gravy and biscuits, and the wineries make dandelion wine. It sells like hotcakes! I don't think the plants live overwinter, but the seeds do and it is invasive. Not for me either! Can't wait to see your plans come to fruition!
Great video. I live in the UK and dandelions are a real pain in the ** no matter how many times you think you’ve pulled them out they still come back. They are great for the bees and other pollinators so I allow them to stay in Spring and then come summer they are pulled out again. I’ve just made some raised beds and followed your video re hardware cloth on the bottom to prevent burrowing animals, ours are rabbit whereas yours are gophers. Fingers crossed it does the job. Thanks.
I see a lot of gardeners using augers and giant drill bits for tree and bush planting. Is that anything you would consider?
Gophers??? I never had a problem. When I moved to this house my backyard was like a soft sponge UNTIL… My Shadow started to clean the yard up… Shadow is my cat and the best critter catcher ever. So if you have a problem Get A CAT!!!
Other than lettuce the only green leafy plant I will eat happily is chard. Here in south Texas we don’t get many dandelions.
I'm in the northern part of VT, so zone 4 to 3 depending on the type of winter we get each year. I think Dandelions are Rad-hard, the lawn company puts killer on them every spring when they show up and they magically come back the next year. The flowers are kinda cute but the leaves are awful in the lawn. Thanks for answering what's going on with the stilts at one end of the cottage. The whole thing is starting to shape up nicely – can't wait to see it done.
Dandelions/cold climate (5a and 4b) – they survive just fine – VERY deep roots. My mother used to eat them mostly as salad greens. We didn't as we grew up in urban areas where herbicides were used quite freely. As herbicides are banned in our area now, suppose we could get into it. In the meantime we do leave them to brighten our spring lawns and provide some of pollinators' first spring food. We cut the grass just as the seed heads are starting to form, continue cutting for the summer leaving them for next spring. They're green after all :O) and blend in just fine with the grass.
NO. The dandelions live thru the winter to be even more robust in the following spring. They can have a massive tap root here in Minnesota. Thanks for the time you spend to do the videos.
No dandelions are not killed in winter my area anyways. It's a tradition at the Italian festival dandelions with garlic and olive oil on Italian bread, I think there might be cheese on it a. It's delicious. Dandelion is a lot like cool weather green, after a certain time of the year it becomes very bitter.
A little confused. Is it a cottage or a chicken coop?
ok, I see you!
We are in Zone 4 in Wisconsin and dandeloin die back to the ground but are root hardy and come back in the spring. And of course the germination rate for the seeds is about 150%. They are a plague for us in the north too but at least we only have to do weeding for 6 monthe of the year. ☺
Dandelions are a perennial.
I live up North, in the Ottawa Valley, Canada zone 5B. I don’t know of anyone who loves dandelions here!!! Not one, except an older couple still making dandelion wine & canning dandelion jelly, but even then they both taste horrific!!! 😂 They over winter here also, so if you ignore them one summer, they come back in the spring with vengeance and their brothers and sisters will join them for the summer party!!! lol We have been known to get down to -30-40c in the winter months. I can’t believe BC is actually is selling pink dandelion seeds this year!!! I never laughed so much in my lifetime seeing it online for sell for 3.50. It’s a hard NO for me on every level. lol
No, no, no! Dandelions are evil! They survive deep freezing weather in N.J.
No, unfortunately, dandelions do not die in the cold weather. We've had temps down to -27C and the dandelions just carry on. They don't flower in the winter of course, but they're the first to flower come spring. I'm of Italian descent, and growing up with an Italian mother and aunts I learned about picking and eating dandelion leaves. The women would actually forage for the very young, new leaves in early spring, before the leaves got bitter, then eat them in a salad. I'm with you though, I don't really care for them either.
I planted dandelions in one tier of my Greenstalk last year. I had never had any and wanted to try them. NOPE! I did not like them either. This year I am doing the same with Purslane. …fingers crossed that I like Purslane! Curious about what variety of crabapple you planted.
Where did you buy mushroom compost from ?