You can make Dandelion wine, coffee, dandelion salve, dandelion syrup, dye your clothes and eat them, to mention a few uses. - maybe he should sell them.
Yeah but that sounds an awful lot like work.
I’ve made dandelion wine and dandelion root tea, both good. A wonderful little treat of a plant.
I’ll pass on eating my clothes
Don’t knock it 'til you’ve tried it.
That’s better than someone dousing the lawn in roundup.
Pretty soon your neighbourhood will be lousy with Italians
I will never understand lawns.
The point is to make home ownership too expensive for black people by wasting land
Dogs tend to like them. Other than that…
Dogs would be just as happy with any other kind of nature, let’s be real.
Maybe overall, but my little Chihuahua/dachshund is too short to deal with taller plants. When we go for a walk by areas with natural growth or even unmowed lawns, he either has to leap through it or walk in the road. I’m sure there are some other options he would be fine with, I don’t think grass is necessary, but he is definitely not just as happy with any other kind of nature.
That sounds more like your pup isn’t used to it more than they can’t deal with it.
Lawns became symbols of the elite in England, as wealthy landowners sought to show off their gains via the most ostentatious displays possible outside stately homes.
Colonizing landowners were keen to replicate the look of a manicured English garden. As such, English imperialism is somewhat to blame for lawns being created around the world, where they became a status symbol, and a sign of wealth and well-to-do.
What I don’t get is what’s the point of a garden with only 2cm-long grass in it?
That is the point. You’re basically trying to say “Look how rich I am, I can afford to have all this land dedicated to looking pretty and not being useful for anything else”
It goes back to the origin stated here. It was desirable because they could afford to effectively waste a lot of acreage on a crop that had no benefit. Simply for show.
The point from from old England’s perspective is that keeping the grass at 2 cm requires a whole bunch of resources and people, so only the rich could afford it. Even today, any neighborhood with weeds growing instead of a 2cm lawn is instantly classified as lower class. There often is no practical use or sometimes use for games or walking is when forbidden because it’s a status symbol only.
It’s like asking what’s the point of owning a Bugatti Chiron that can go 400 kph when you’re stuck in the same traffic jam anyway.
it’s easier to walk in than a garden with only 100cm-long grass in it
also looks nicer than a barren garden with no grass
Dandelions actually do important work for your lawn. They break up the hardened soil to make the ground softer for the grass to grow in. Letting dandelions grow will lead to a more beautiful lawn.
Also, pollinators love them!
They do!
I like dandelions. I’d let them grow even without the additional benefits just because they’re pretty. And also fun for kids when the seeds mature and you can pluck them and blow them into the wind.
I completely agree. But for all those that want the lawn to be beautiful and healthy it’s good to have that knowledge about them. They’re useful and good looking. And you can make shitty wine from them.
I’ll pass on the wine but I’m down for everything else.
Reasonable
How shitty of a wine are we talking about here? Boxed wine that’s been exposed directly to the sun for months?
Not too bad, not too good.
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Totally a USA thing. Dandelions and Clover are seen as undesirable to our eugenicized monoculture lawns.
The terrible part is the clover and dandelions and these other early season
flowers“weeds” are a very important part of a bees diet.I love your line of thinking. Lawns don’t feed the ecosystem, flowers do! But here in the US dandelions and clover are not a critical part of their diet. Native plants are the critical part of their diet - e.g. Native maple trees that bloom first!
Dandelions are native to Europe
Clover is native to Eurasia
They are far from the worst weeds, i wouldn’t go eradicating them like you should invasive plants (I leave both in my lawn anyways). But if we are looking to support our bees and ecosystem, then we should be re wilding our yard and growing native plants
In New England there’s a lot of neat spring ephemerals too (select from additional attributes)
Thank you. My understanding was since these were among the first flowers to come up in the spring, they are one of the few plentiful sources of food.
I stole this meme from somewhere else so I really don’t know anything about the backstory, so it could have been a grumpy neighbor for all I know.
Definitely a thing in the US. People spend lots of money to have chemicals poured onto their lawns every year, summer and winter, to keep the weeds away. All of those chemicals have to go somewhere. Probably the groundwater and streams and other bodies of water. Not good.
I know people who mowed down carefully their lawn and spray them with presticide but they never had a issue with having dandelions, daisies and other common grass flowers, they are usually considered part of the lawn.
It’s a weird culture a lot of emphasis on freedom and protecting your home but then you just “ok then” when the local busy body comes around. It’s your land get them told
…HOAs hire management companies; management companies issue citations, collect fines, file liens, and foreclose your property…
They can’t initiate foreclosure anymore, since around 2005 or thereabouts… But they can still file a lien, and collect on it if foreclosure happens.
…depends upon the jurisdition: in my state, HOAs can foreclose for unpaid assessments but not for fines…
I was told it was federal, but I don’t keep up with that stuff anymore, I’ve been HOA free for the last 9 years…
*land of the free
*free to exploit capital
I too had never heard of the insane hatred on the poor dandelions before stumbling upon it online.
They should just eat more salad if it’s such a problem.
Clearly someone who’s never accidentally tasted dandelion milk.
People can eat dandelions. So, free food? Where?
You can eat dandelion greens, but be careful where you pick them. Some people use pesticides for spiders and ticks around their homes, or weed-killers. You can also boil the greens and flowers to make tea.
People that are too lazy or can’t afford to cut their lawn typically also can’t or don’t care to afford pesticides.
Edit: I’ll eat the spiders too.
Not (frequently) mowing your lawn is one of the best things you can do for your local bee population. Dandelions and other meadow flowers are great sources of nutrition for them. Obviously, don’t use pesticides either.
So maybe I get a yummy meal, maybe I just fucking die?
I’ll roll those dice.
Come discuss at [email protected] I’ve eaten dandelion before and I’m still hear to tell the story. I’ve made side dish of the stem. And it taste good. It’s a vegetable without a strong taste.
The leaves are grow and sell as salad even if it is not as common as lettuce. It has much more flavour than to stem.Dandelion leaves can be bitter but some people actually cannot taste bitter. One way to reduce the bitter taste is to pick the youngest and fastest growing leaves out of direct sunlight, as sun exposure increases bitterness.
Sure but it will still have bitterness and that’s what there is to like about this type of salad
I’m not in Australia. The only spiders I know of that might nest under a dandelion are small American jumping spiders.
They’re effectively harmless, and honestly I wouldn’t eat them, as they are our cute 8 legged kittens that eat the other bugs out there.
Look first, if no bugs or spiders, then free dandelion food yo! 👍
Almost all of our spiders are completely harmless. Even the black widow and brown recluse are not as dangerous as people think.
We spray for bugs because people don’t want house spiders in their house.
I might even get a little protein too?
The spiders are optional. Honestly, you’re more likely to encounter their egg sack under a dandelion than the actual mother spider, unless you pluck them early in the morning dew when momma spider might be at home…
Eating the spiders is not an issue. Eating pesticides that people use against spiders is.
In my area, when people don’t cut their lawns, they damn sure ain’t paying for pesticides.
I don’t use pesticides, but when my dogs start coming inside with ticks, I spray flea and tick killer in their fenced area. I imagine others probably do the same.
Also, you let your dogs inside? We had a large doghouse and like a 200 foot cable runner.
Edit: Only our cats were allowed inside.
Yeah, people that can afford fences can usually also afford to tend to their lawn. Not everyone can afford such luxuries, many folks can just barely afford dog food, to feed their security guard animal.
The whole dandelion is edible. Flower too. I don’t know about the parachutes though.
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Personally, I prefer the slovenly lions.
Dan the lion?
Dandelion greens are really good for you. Plus as others have noted monoculture lawns are pretty bad for the environment. Better than impermeable surfaces but still not great.
Look, a dandelion! Must be the last one of the season!
Do the dandelion dance! Blast techno! Wear a speedo! Celebrate nature’s bounty, yo!!
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Free Dandelions! From the sidewalk to the fence!
It doesn’t say what to do with them… If I see something like that with no context, I’m breeding ginormous people-eating dandelions…
Now that’s an interesting plot twist
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