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07-05-2004, 12:02 AM

Hound wrote in :

Unless ALL your near-by neighbors con troll the dandelions and
crabgrass in their yards, your chances of controlling them in your
lawn by just pulling them, especially in a larger yard, are next to
nil.

This is especially true if you are feeble or have more cents than sense.

You are far more likely to have dandelion germination from flower heads
that fallen in situ due to herbicide action or your own mowing than cast
adrift on the wind from a neighbor.

It's not a problem as long as you continue to pay the lawn company for
emergent control OR if you remove the flowers in the first place. If you
don't want to pay a lawn company, it seems to me that it would be about the
same amount of work pulling a root with a dandelion fork as it would be
going around hand spraying. YTFMLMV.