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Dandelions actually do important work for your lawn. They break up the hardened soil to make the ground softer for the grass to grow in. Letting dandelions grow will lead to a more beautiful lawn.
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I like dandelions. I'd let them grow even without the additional benefits just because they're pretty. And also fun for kids when the seeds mature and you can pluck them and blow them into the wind.
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Also, pollinators love them!
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They do!
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I will never understand lawns.
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Lawns became symbols of the elite in England, as wealthy landowners sought to show off their gains via the most ostentatious displays possible outside stately homes.
Colonizing landowners were keen to replicate the look of a manicured English garden. As such, English imperialism is somewhat to blame for lawns being created around the world, where they became a status symbol, and a sign of wealth and well-to-do.
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The point is to make home ownership too expensive for black people by wasting land
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Totally a USA thing. Dandelions and Clover are seen as undesirable to our eugenicized monoculture lawns.
The terrible part is the clover and dandelions and these other early season
flowers"weeds" are a very important part of a bees diet.-
I love your line of thinking. Lawns don't feed the ecosystem, flowers do! But here in the US dandelions and clover are not a critical part of their diet. Native plants are the critical part of their diet - e.g. Native maple trees that bloom first!
Dandelions are native to Europe
Clover is native to Eurasia
They are far from the worst weeds, i wouldn't go eradicating them like you should invasive plants (I leave both in my lawn anyways). But if we are looking to support our bees and ecosystem, then we should be re wilding our yard and growing native plants
In New England there's a lot of neat spring ephemerals too (select from additional attributes)
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Definitely a thing in the US. People spend lots of money to have chemicals poured onto their lawns every year, summer and winter, to keep the weeds away. All of those chemicals have to go somewhere. Probably the groundwater and streams and other bodies of water. Not good.
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It's a weird culture a lot of emphasis on freedom and protecting your home but then you just "ok then" when the local busy body comes around. It's your land get them told
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I too had never heard of the insane hatred on the poor dandelions before stumbling upon it online.
They should just eat more salad if it's such a problem.
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Clearly someone who's never accidentally tasted dandelion milk.
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I stole this meme from somewhere else so I really don't know anything about the backstory, so it could have been a grumpy neighbor for all I know.
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People can eat dandelions. So, free food? Where?
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You can eat dandelion greens, but be careful where you pick them. Some people use pesticides for spiders and ticks around their homes, or weed-killers. You can also boil the greens and flowers to make tea.
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So maybe I get a yummy meal, maybe I just fucking die?
I'll roll those dice.
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The whole dandelion is edible. Flower too. I don't know about the parachutes though.
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People that are too lazy or can't afford to cut their lawn typically also can't or don't care to afford pesticides.
Edit: I'll eat the spiders too.
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Dandelion greens are really good for you. Plus as others have noted monoculture lawns are pretty bad for the environment. Better than impermeable surfaces but still not great.
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You can make Dandelion wine, coffee, dandelion salve, dandelion syrup, dye your clothes and eat them, to mention a few uses. - maybe he should sell them.
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I'll pass on eating my clothes
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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
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Yeah but that sounds an awful lot like work.
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I've made dandelion wine and dandelion root tea, both good. A wonderful little treat of a plant.
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Oh no! Your neighbour will really be upset now...
What they meant us your lawn has less than the regulation number of dandelions. Quick, go gather seeds and start replanting!
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Worked in animal crossing
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Do the dandelion dance! Blast techno! Wear a speedo! Celebrate nature's bounty, yo!!
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It doesn't say what to do with them... If I see something like that with no context, I'm breeding ginormous people-eating dandelions...
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Now that's an interesting plot twist
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That's better than someone dousing the lawn in roundup.
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Personally, I prefer the slovenly lions.
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Dan the lion?
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Free Dandelions! From the sidewalk to the fence!
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Pretty soon your neighbourhood will be lousy with Italians
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what about the wives
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I fucking hate dandelions, I hate herbicides a shit ton more though. I planted clover and other ground over to compete with the dandelions and to feed the bees. My husband and I go out picking dandelions any day it's not raining and we see yellow in the yard. It's kinda fun to see who can get the longest thickest root 😉
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if you're letting your dandelions flower, you should remove them when they go to seed. if they seed your neighbor's lawns, your neighbors are probably going to use pesticides that are going to be flushed into your local water table
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Look, a dandelion! Must be the last one of the season!
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I can't fathom why anyone hates dandelions. The entire plant is edible and they're a cute little flower.
Some people are allergic to joy.
Not joy in general; just other people's joy.
And they are amazing for bees
I heard their pollen doesn’t provide enough nutrients for the hive/queen. Specifically protein.
Here’s a link to neat bee article. Go pollinators!
https://www.gardenmyths.com/dandelions-important-bees/
Protein contains amino acids, and some of these amino acids are essential. That means the organism can not make them; they have to get them in food. Dandelion pollen is low in valine, isoleucine, leucine and arginine, essential amino acids for honey bees.
Dandelion is consider a poor quality source of protein for bees.
Yeah, I don't even get mad at them any more. They are hardcore survivors and proliferators, and will have a welcome haven in my lawn to piss off dick neighbors like in the post
Did you know you can get them in pink and white?
Really piss off your neighbors!
I saw a bunny once systemically behead a bunch of dandelions in an area. It was cute and scary.
Goats love dandelions. It's like cocaine
They're technically an invasive species in North America. Been around long enough now that they could maybe be considered native. If you're looking to do a natural lawn in NA, though, you should probably still consider them a weed.
That's a good point, and I fact I keep forgetting. Probably because the people who typically take issue with them aren't concerned about native species (if they were, they wouldn't like the grass either).
maybe they're allergic to the pollen