25-02-2003, 03:03 AM
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Dandelions
(Frogleg) wrote in message ...
Digging is *very* organic, and
quite ineffective -- at least as a long-term cure. The tiniest root
fragment will produce new plants.
A while back I started a tradition -- in the fall I would pull up all
the dandelions in the front yard, and where ever there was a hole from
the pulled-up weed, I'd put in a crocus bulb. Then, in the early
spring, I would have a lawn full of naturalized-looking crocus bulbs.
By the time the flowers faded, it would be time to do the first mowing
of the lawn.
What I found is sometimes I'd pull up a dandelion in the fall, and
already find a bulb there -- in other words, the root fragment made a
new plant, as frogleg suggests. But each year, the number of
dandelions I'd pull up were less and less, and the ones that would
come up from the root fragments were puny and could not make flowers.
This last fall, I found that, for the first time, I could not use up a
bag of 16 crocus bulbs in the lawn, and put the remaining bulbs in the
flower garden.
So it shows -- if you are consistent, you can control dandelions by
pulling them up, but it takes patience.
Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky
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