Dandelions in Lawn

twopenny

Now that's not something you hear often 😁

FreeBear

Farway said: Learn how to make dandelion wine or dandelion champagne

Pop an upturned pot over the dandelion and wait for the leaves to turn (almost) white. Use them in a summer salad.

Dig the roots up and either roast or fry and add to the Sunday lunch.

Lorian

Verdone or cut the tap root out. There are some ££ tools to do that I just use a small pointing trowel

Brie

Lorian said:

Verdone or cut the tap root out. There are some ££ tools to do that I just use a small pointing trowel

The ££ tools are handy for those of us who aren't as bendy as we used to be.  Either way I recommend getting the roots out the day after a good rain as the ground will be softer.  

greenbee

I can lend you my dog. He eats dandelion flowers. 

millie

i use a Friskars dandelion puller. I have managed to get rid of mine using it, I do get the odd one occasionally but this gets them out and the root. It does leave a small hole but it soon fills in.

https://www.tradeinn.com/bricoinn/en/fiskars-light-weeder-puller/137851211/p?utm_source=google_products&utm_medium=merchant&id_producte=11952988&country=uk&srsltid=AfmBOor-DZKbvWnF49R723AMA_HcbXTjpOwk3lUlNea_fNiLTZ3kBXbPb60&gQT=1

KittenChops

Goldfinches very much like the seed heads - spent a while watching them on our front lawn the other day

droopsnoot

I tend to pull the yellow flowers off the plant and then leave them on the path nearby, in the hope that the bees can still get something from them. I've recently put some 4 in 1 down on the lawn, but I can't say it's done much good yet. I can never get the full root out because I'd have to damage so much lawn to do so. I know some like them to go a bit wild, but it just looks so untidy - I don't get a nice colourful mix of wild flowers, I just get straggly green weeds. 

MouldyOldDough

droopsnoot said:

I tend to pull the yellow flowers off the plant and then leave them on the path nearby, in the hope that the bees can still get something from them. I've recently put some 4 in 1 down on the lawn, but I can't say it's done much good yet. I can never get the full root out because I'd have to damage so much lawn to do so. I know some like them to go a bit wild, but it just looks so untidy - I don't get a nice colourful mix of wild flowers, I just get straggly green weeds. 

4 in 1 no longer contains glyphosate relying instead on iron sulphate to kill weeds !

Dustyevsky

MouldyOldDough said:

droopsnoot said:

I tend to pull the yellow flowers off the plant and then leave them on the path nearby, in the hope that the bees can still get something from them. I've recently put some 4 in 1 down on the lawn, but I can't say it's done much good yet. I can never get the full root out because I'd have to damage so much lawn to do so. I know some like them to go a bit wild, but it just looks so untidy - I don't get a nice colourful mix of wild flowers, I just get straggly green weeds. 

4 in 1 no longer contains glyphosate relying instead on iron sulphate to kill weeds !

Did it ever contain glyphosate? Perhaps you mean another herbicide. Glyphosate is a very effective killer of all grasses!