After the carpet bombing of the dandelion invasion a couple of weeks ago, I think I can go back to a more organic, manual battle of the weeds.
See those pretty yellow flowers at the top? They're evil. Evil, I tell you.
Left alone, by the afternoon they will be a cloud of weed seed on a stalk. A slightest breeze will set hundreds of seeds loose across your lawn and it seems like they have a germination rate of 99.9%
So, now that I've hit 'em hard with poison, here's the two-prong approach to dandelion control...
Every time I cross the lawn, if I see those flowers, they're plucked and thrown away immediately.
Secondly, each time I head out to garden, I've set a goal of uprooting a minimum of 12 plants.
I stick the blade of the hoe in at the edge of the plant...
...push it in with my foot, lever it up and pull it out by the roots.
Since I'm about to mow the lawn, I just toss it on the ground to suck it up with the mower.
Today, I got 17 uprooted. We'll see how this new strategy goes.
Darryl
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