Dandelions
Category: Daily Diary
Actual conversation with my mom when she visited last week.
Me: Look Mom! I have eradicated the dandelions from our lawn! Aren't you proud of me?
Mom: Yes, sure. But you used to love dandelions when you were little.
Me: That was before I owned a house with a lawn. Now, I'm obsessed with defeating them.
Mom: (sighs) How sad. Dandelions were the best things I used to grow.
So, now we know where my black thumb comes from.
There were a lot of dandelions out there. A lot. And when they were all gone, there wasn't even any lawn left.
Obviously, I'm better at growing dandelions than grass.
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Comments
Would you like to come to my home and help get rid of a few (hundred no maybe thousand) dandelions?
I don't know how I'm ever going to make a dent in ours. Although I did mow our grass for the first time today and that made many disappear. Unfortunately that doesn't help the actually problem. Just makes it look better.
Posted by: fhdogs | May 13, 2008 9:16 PM
I used to love them too now they are the bane of my lawn.. and it doesn't help that my backyard neighbor has a bumper crop every year... It drives me nuts
Posted by: SAple | May 13, 2008 10:29 PM
I'm an uapologetic ChemLawn subscriber.
Posted by: Lisa in Oak Park | May 14, 2008 8:15 AM
I love dandelions. The bees love them too, so they're good for my vegetable garden. My lawn is full of purple and white violets too, also clover, which fixes nitrogen...
Saw some orange butterflies at the violets the other day.
Posted by: trudy | May 14, 2008 9:55 AM
Looks like my front yard! That's why we took out all the 'grass' and turned the whole (15x15) front yard into a big planting bed complete with mulch. It looked much nicer before the water main broke and it had a 5 foot deep trench dug in it!
Posted by: Emily | May 14, 2008 11:24 AM
This post was so relatable,it's a daily grind for me since I let them run wild last year. Think of it as aerating the lawn, those holes will make the grass grow better, I am sure.
Posted by: eric | May 14, 2008 11:38 AM
I can so sympathize. How is it I can grow hundreds of these things, yet I kill every houseplant I've ever owned?
Posted by: wanderluster | May 14, 2008 9:09 PM
I'm ashamed to admit that we let our dandelions go too long and now they have gone mutant on us and are taller than me. Seriously.
Posted by: casacaudill | May 15, 2008 2:34 PM
If you slightly increase the acidity of your soil (6.5 pH instead of 7.0 pH, which is neutral), you'll make it more friendly for grasses to grow and less friendly for dandelions. There are some organic solutions for controlling dandelions, but early spring and fall are the best times to prevent this from happening. But for now, pulling them up is the best way to control them!
Posted by: Jay | May 19, 2008 10:20 AM