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I know neighbors don't like it when you let the lion's tooth thrive, but that's not a problem for me. I don't have any neighbors. I just don't get the distinction between dandelions and, say, daffodils.
Who is the guy who first taught us that dandelions are a weed, while violets, buttercups and daisies are lovely spring flowers? I had no luck looking this up on the Internet, but I have a strong suspicion it was somebody peddling some noxious chemical to cure the golden infestation.
Last year, I wrote a magazine article on information being circulated by national research groups on the roots of raging epidemics of autism and food allergies. More and more, they are finding this generation of children is exposed to an enormous number of chemical toxins, like herbicides and pesticides, before they are even born, according to Cindy Schneider, medical director for the Center of Autism Research and Education - and mother of two children with autism.
If you want to go organic, you can try digging your dandelions. That's what Zorn did. Of course, the more he dug, the quicker the dandelions grew.
Here's what I do. Every week I mow them off. Dandelions were world-famous for their beauty. They were a common and beloved garden flower in Europe, and the subject of many poems. In the terrifying New World, the cheerful face of the dandelion was a sweet reminder of home. In Japan for instance, whole horticultural societies formed to enjoy the beauty of dandelions and to develop exciting new varieties for gardeners.
Dandelions are a green and growing first aid kit. The use of dandelions in the healing arts goes so far back that tracing its history is like trying to catch a dandelion seed as it floats over the grass. In olden times, dandelions were also prescribed for every ailment, from warts to the plague. To this day, herbalists hail the dandelion as the perfect plant medicine: It is a gentle diuretic that provides nutrients and helps the digestive system function at peak efficiency.
Dandelions are more nutritious than most of the vegetables in your garden. They were named after lions because their lion-toothed leaves healed so many ailments, great and small: baldness, dandruff, toothache, sores, fevers, rotting gums, weakness, lethargy and depression. In eras when vitamin pills were unknown, vitamin deficiencies killed millions.
Data from the U. Department of Agriculture reveal how dandelions probably helped alleviate many ailments: They have more vitamin A than spinach, more vitamin C than tomatoes, and are a powerhouse of iron, calcium and potassium. Dandelions are good for your lawn. Their wide-spreading roots loosen hard-packed soil, aerate the earth and help reduce erosion.
The deep taproot pulls nutrients such as calcium from deep in the soil and makes them available to other plants. Dandelions are masters of survival.
They can take root in places that seem little short of miraculous, and then are impossible to get rid of, as homeowners have found. But why is this plant so hard to kill? The sunny yellow flowers go from bud to seed in days. Their lifespan is long, too — an individual plant can live for years, so the dandelion lurking in a corner of the playground might be older than the children running past it. Get your camera out, take the best shots of your life and submit them to the photo competition! Please Click Here!
Why do we hate dandelions? Ok, I know dandelions get a bit ugly in their later stages, but I was wondering today why generally we hate dandelions. The missus put me up to this. At this time of year, not much is blooming. We're in the gap between the late winterers and the late springers.
Dandelions fill that gap. All the grass verges and my front garden are full of fresh bright orange flowers of dandelions. The bees love it too. I was watching them on my front lawn earlier, ignoring the daisies in the lawn, the daffs in the border, and paying only a cursory glance at the tulips.
The dandelions were the flowers of choice. So I was wondering why it is that in general we're brainwashed to hate them. What do we think? I think it's only because they spread so easily. Like x 1. Jenny namaste , Apr 29, I'm not too bothered by them but then again I'm not too bothered about having a perfect lawn. As long as they remain in the lawn I won't make any effort to get rid of them. Jenny, they're a diuretic! So there is some truth in the saying.
I don't mind them when they're yellow, but it's when they'll white that's the problem i'm surrounded by them, arce's of them.
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