# Killing dandelions **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 13, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817 "2017-06-13T00:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/61 "2017-07-05T03:06:36Z")
Oh, you poor people with your dandelions. Even the name is wussy. Try [Mesquite](http://texnat.tamu.edu/about/brush-busters/mesquite/) trees. A mature tree drops bushels of seed pods, each of which contains a bunch of seeds, each or which will sprout into a thorny, hardy fast-growning little tree. I’ve given up trying to pull them up - I just mow over them and keep them at the height of the grass… ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/62 "2017-07-05T04:28:17Z")
“Lion’s Teeth” is wussy? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/63 "2017-07-05T05:16:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nobody has yet popped in to explain what’s objectionable about dandelions. > [@AtomicDog](#): > > They grow faster than the grass, forcing me to mow twice as often. And not just growth rate but aesthetics too - the usual gripe comes from those who want to see nothing but a nice, even, unbroken patch of grass, and nothing else. A number of my clients get a Jackie Gleason if they see even one dandelion, and I have to tell/remind them these are inevitabilities that sometimes daily checks can only redress. Then other folks are happy with me weed-whacking down their mostly-shaded back “lawns” that are basically 80/20% dandelions/grass. YMMMV\*. Probably goes without saying a cajillion worse weeds come to mind. (trying to contain aforementioned mesquite tree suckers would be a nuisance, indeed, and I’m glad I don’t have to contend with _that_.) \*The word “mower” has been inserted in there.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/64 "2017-07-05T05:50:59Z")
Missed edit window - I confused mesquite suckers for seeds - my bads. I hope any of the fucking mods don’t notice that. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/65 "2017-07-05T06:45:54Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > But you do have to do it frequently enough so that it can’t recharge between culling. > [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Perhaps weekly isn’t frequent enough, then, since some of these properties have been on my roster since I first got into this (private one-man) biz 13 years ago. Usually within a week’s time they can sprout from nothing to about a foot high. _And_ growing in ever-expanding clusters. Less so in the winter, of course, which can have relatively moderate weather here on Vancouver Island. Yes. When I got rid of the horsetails, I was attacking them every couple of days and pulling off every single bit of top growth I could find. It only succeeded because the area was contained (there was no uncontrolled border where they could come back from) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/66 "2017-07-05T07:00:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nobody has yet popped in to explain what’s objectionable about dandelions. They’re a coarse weed in lawns, but I personally don’t even like lawns that are a monoculture of grass. Actually, I recently got a bit emotional about [the humble daisy](https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=g13lIUkHjQY) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/67 "2017-07-05T14:54:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Nobody has yet popped in to explain what’s objectionable about dandelions. Not talking about a few here and there. If your yard is basically nothing but dandelions, it’s very difficult to find/collect dog poop. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817/68 "2017-07-05T15:44:38Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Actually, I recently got a bit emotional about [the humble daisy](https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=g13lIUkHjQY) That link doesn’t go anywhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killing-dandelions/788817.md?page=3)