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Dandelions
Soon spring will be here, as will my yellow sea of dandelions. To be
honest, I really haven't tried very hard to get rid of them. I live next to a field that is full of wildflowers (which I quite enjoy), and I had always assumed that any attempt I made to rid my lawn of weeds would be nullified by seeds from the field next door ending up on my lawn.However, in an attempt to be neighbourly, I thought I'd try this year to at least get a start on controlling the dandelions. Just leave the dandelions. They are an extreemly important spring nectar and pollen honeybee crop. The sight of dandelions is beutifull in my eyes, and I never appreciated the plant soo much as when I started raising bees. Instead of fighting them, and loosing every year, just leave them and enjoy their benifet to the nectar collecting insects. |
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kate wrote in message ...
Frogleg wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:01:39 -0600 (CST), (will) wrote: You can send me as many as you want. (chemical free though) I have lizards who see dandelions as being better then almost anything out there...... The eat dandelions like we eat popcorn....... I've heard of someone saving them for parakeets, too. My dog likes the leaves and the flowers, which have mild analgesic properties. Guinea pigs will not touch carrots or apples, or any kind of grain or pellets or hay, if they can get dandelion instead. |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:24:43 GMT, Lar wrote:
Those two don't eat plant material, but have seen Fence hunt for bees and flies off the flowers. The kids will feed the flowers and tender leaves to an iguana and catch bees for a bearded dragon we have. I've seen mine eat giant grasshoppers half hanging out the back of their mouths for a hour till they get it all down. V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:54:50 GMT, animaux
wrote: You know, Johnny's Select Seeds actually sells a cultivated form of dandelion seeds? This is one pretty plant. I don't understand what the hoopla is about when they pop up. Mowing them before they form seed moons is one other way of keeping them from spreading, but getting rid of them is silly. I didn't know lizards like them! What a plus. We have lizards all over the place. Both Anole's and fence lizards. See some babies from our yard he http://home.austin.rr.com/animaux/ne...n/Page_5x.html http://home.austin.rr.com/animaux/ne...n/Page_6x.html Ah the Fence lizards and Anoles are carnivores, green iguanas love Dandelions I understand though mine are finicky and only eat the flowers. Cool shots of the fence lizards. Sceloporus are neat guys. Dave |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:24:43 GMT, Lar wrote:
Those two don't eat plant material, but have seen Fence hunt for bees and flies off the flowers. The kids will feed the flowers and tender leaves to an iguana and catch bees for a bearded dragon we have. I've seen mine eat giant grasshoppers half hanging out the back of their mouths for a hour till they get it all down. V |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 23:01:39 -0600 (CST),
(will) wrote: You can send me as many as you want. (chemical free though) I have lizards who see dandelions as being better then almost anything out there...... The eat dandelions like we eat popcorn....... =will= Mine prefer the horseradish leaves...though they do like the flowers on the Dandelions.. Dave |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:54:50 GMT, animaux
wrote: You know, Johnny's Select Seeds actually sells a cultivated form of dandelion seeds? This is one pretty plant. I don't understand what the hoopla is about when they pop up. Mowing them before they form seed moons is one other way of keeping them from spreading, but getting rid of them is silly. I didn't know lizards like them! What a plus. We have lizards all over the place. Both Anole's and fence lizards. See some babies from our yard he http://home.austin.rr.com/animaux/ne...n/Page_5x.html http://home.austin.rr.com/animaux/ne...n/Page_6x.html Ah the Fence lizards and Anoles are carnivores, green iguanas love Dandelions I understand though mine are finicky and only eat the flowers. Cool shots of the fence lizards. Sceloporus are neat guys. Dave |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:53:34 -0500, Dave Fouchey wrote:
Ah the Fence lizards and Anoles are carnivores, green iguanas love Dandelions I understand though mine are finicky and only eat the flowers. Cool shots of the fence lizards. Sceloporus are neat guys. Dave There are so many of these little creatures in the yard, it's hard to walk around and not see at least 10 of them scampering around. I adore them. The facade of our home is 6 inch thick limestone. They put small seep holes at the foundation and there is an anole in each one of them! They peek out every day when it gets warm, which will not happen today. Yesterday it was 80, today at 430p it is still under 40. One good thing about cold, you can easily pick them up and examine them for disease or possible defects. If you go back by our mature mesquite tree, you would find many mature fence lizards. They get to be around a foot long, two inches wide, which you probably know! V |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:30:07 GMT, animaux
wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:53:34 -0500, Dave Fouchey wrote: Ah the Fence lizards and Anoles are carnivores, green iguanas love Dandelions I understand though mine are finicky and only eat the flowers. Cool shots of the fence lizards. Sceloporus are neat guys. Dave There are so many of these little creatures in the yard, it's hard to walk around and not see at least 10 of them scampering around. I adore them. The facade of our home is 6 inch thick limestone. They put small seep holes at the foundation and there is an anole in each one of them! They peek out every day when it gets warm, which will not happen today. Yesterday it was 80, today at 430p it is still under 40. One good thing about cold, you can easily pick them up and examine them for disease or possible defects. If you go back by our mature mesquite tree, you would find many mature fence lizards. They get to be around a foot long, two inches wide, which you probably know! V V these are the ones I am most familiar with http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...porus/s._woodi Caught some for study once, man are these suckers FAST...;-) Dave |
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(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 Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Cpetersky |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:27:19 -0500, Dave Fouchey wrote:
V these are the ones I am most familiar with http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.ed...porus/s._woodi Caught some for study once, man are these suckers FAST...;-) Dave After reading the URL I laughed because part of why we love to sit in the evening and watch them, is their behavior; the "push-ups" they do. Even the teeny weeny ones do that! There is one who stays in the same spot year after year, for the past three years we've had this house. This was virgin land when they built and they left everything, trees, topsoil, etc. intact. Tonight we are having an ice storm. Texas weather near spring is a real challenge. Hope all the critters are in their dwellings. Victoria |
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I did see a leash for iguanas in the pet store, can you do one of
those hawk training things with parakeets? sorry, decent question. |
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