Let Dandelions Grow
May 8, 2020 08:45:45 #
Dandelions are good food for bees, so leave them alone.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
May 8, 2020 09:01:03 #
I've declared my yard a dandelion amnesty zone. It's an island of biodiversity amidst chemical-laden biodiversity deserts.
May 8, 2020 09:08:51 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
I like to take photos of dandelions and other weeds growing up through the cracks in pavement and marvel at the persistence of life. If only my garden could follow suite. 🥴🥴
May 8, 2020 09:13:03 #
My sister keeps two hives and told me the same thing; honey bees love dandelions. Not that there's a shortage of dandelions anywhere around my neighborhood but just yesterday I saw my first honey bee on a dandelion in the middle of my lawn so I left it alone.
May 8, 2020 09:20:39 #
cytafex
Loc: Clarksburg MA
Grandpa used to grow dandelions in his garden, when young and tender in a salad and then cooked when more mature, very nutritious and can eat every part of the plant.
May 8, 2020 09:32:41 #
May 9, 2020 05:57:53 #
I never cut my grass in the spring until I see the bees have been feeding on the Dandelions. If it blooms it,s not a weed.
May 9, 2020 07:37:13 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Dandelions are good food for bees, so leave them alone.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
The leaves are delicious also when prepared correctly. Loved them when my Grandmother fixed them.
May 9, 2020 08:39:16 #
cytafex wrote:
Grandpa used to grow dandelions in his garden, when young and tender in a salad and then cooked when more mature, very nutritious and can eat every part of the plant.
We didn't grow them in our garden, but my mother would send me out with a small knife before supper to get dandelions for salad. She always cautioned me not to get the ones from around fire hydrants, telephone poles or trees. Only from the field. She'd wash them up and then season them with salt, pepper, vinegar and olive oil. They were yummy. I've tried to do that with dandelions bought in the produce dept and they just don't taste the same as the wild ones.
May 9, 2020 09:02:34 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Dandelions are good food for bees, so leave them alone.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
I’m with you - grass is so boring.
( Now if I could only convince the admiral. )
May 9, 2020 09:10:29 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Dandelions are good food for bees, so leave them alone.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
I don't allow them in my yard, but kitty-corner from my house is a school yard that is a forest of dandelions. I does get mowed weekly tho.
May 9, 2020 09:30:03 #
May 9, 2020 09:48:48 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Dandelions are good food for bees, so leave them alone.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/leave-dandelions-alone-to-help-bees-this-spring/
They are my favorite flower.
May 9, 2020 09:55:22 #
Interesting that yellow forsythia on a bush,
dandelions on the ground,
both yellow.
One is acceptable, one is not.
Location?
Physical design?
Physical size?
We were told one is a <bad> weed?
dandelions on the ground,
both yellow.
One is acceptable, one is not.
Location?
Physical design?
Physical size?
We were told one is a <bad> weed?
May 9, 2020 10:40:50 #
Some innovative thinking. Many years ago the University of Rochester (NY) made the dandelion the "school flower". No more struggles to control it. Campus lawns beautiful in the spring with "dandelion yellow".
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