dandelions

chickey

Looking for advice on dealing with dandelions in lawn. Lawn weedkiller (2 doses of verdone) seems to have had little effect on them - have quite a few. At present am pulling heads off before they go to seed to try and stop spread - is this in any way worthwhile?

Darwin

Hi...If you have a big lawn or a lot of dandelions, you'd have a heck of a job pulling the heads off them as they'd sprout another flower head or two in no time. I have a similar problem, except my lawn (which takes me an hour to mow) is infested with them. I've tried both Verdone and Roundup but with limited success. I think your best bet is to dig up the weed altogether - of course this means a messy lawn

Lex Luthor

Guys,
Get a top brand name Lawn Sand Feed & Weed like Levingtons and spread the stuff evenly over your lawn. It'll kill those yellow ba$tard$ in a couple of days. Easy peasy.

Degsy

A good(though labour intensive) method is to go out after its been raining with a long bladed knife or a slong screwdriver and push it down as far as possible ,give a twist and you should be able to get the plant and all its root.The lawn will heal itself after a few days and if yoou do it properely the dandelions wont come back.Do the same for daiseys only use a sturdy table fork.

Kernel

The dandelions seem to be nuclear mutant plants that grow overnight and you can dig them up only to have 10 more in their place..... I swear, last year I spent days digging them out, and this year they are back twice as bad.

Degsy

sound like you have a serious problemsometimes dandelions can take over an entire house and kill the occupant,it happened a boy in england.

Lex Luthor

The dandys are out in force this year....believe me, trust the lawn sand...but you need to get one with the built in weed killer.

I have yet to put some down in my front lawn this year but use it religously every year. The gardens surrounding me back & front in the neighbours and across the street are mobbed, I have one. This stuff works and keeps on working in the soil afterwards.

KILL THE BUGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!

kadman

Lex Luthor wrote:

KILL THE BUGGERS!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you need anger management counselling to control your hatred of dandelions Lex. he. he.

Why not just get pis.....ed on dandelion wine,

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/dandelio.asp

kadman

Capt'n Midnight

you can get a dandelion/weed plucker thing with a four headed jaw for about €30 in B&Q

Lex Luthor

I know this is a DIY forum, but all these methods you are describing are hard work.....rolling out a bit of sand takes 5 mins and last all summer... :rolleyes:

KoNiT

It took me the full summer 2 yrs ago to get rid of them feckers... gone for good now (not!) & worth the effort.

Get a long knife & remove the tap root, pulling the heads is a waste of time.
run over the lawn with a broad leaf killer. Use as per instructions religiously every 4-6 weeks.

At the end of October scarify the lawn ( I suffer from moss), do it again in March /early April followed by lawn feed/anything else killer..

Have fun & get used to hearing "mecca's that way"!!