Cheap but great dandelion killer.

[Skwim]

White vinegar, full strength, sprayed on the weed. Kills them in 4-6 hours. I use a 2 gallon sprayer.

Costco has it 2 gallons for $3.60.

 

[Revoltingest]

White vinegar, full strength, sprayed on the weed. Kills them in 4-6 hours. I use a 2 gallon sprayer.
Costco has it 2 gallons for $3.60.

For large yards, I prefer a broadleaf selective herbicide. It's cheaper & faster than vinegar, even the horticultural grade stuff.
For non-selective kills, glyphosphate is best. Roundup QuickPro has fast knock-down power, & is rain fast within an hour.
This is the best for killing the scourge of garlic mustard, which is wiping out a hellofalot of biodiversity across the US.

 

[Father Heathen]

Dandelions and Garlic Mustard are edible. Make a salad.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

Dandelions and Garlic Mustard are edible. Make a salad.

Absolutely. :yes:

The yellow flowers can be saved and made into dandelion wine, too.

 

[Skwim]

Dandelions and Garlic Mustard are edible. Make a salad.

If I harvested all the dandelions in my yard, 1- 1/4 acres, it would look like this.

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[Revoltingest]

Absolutely. :yes:
The yellow flowers can be saved and made into dandelion wine, too.

Garlic mustard is edible, but not to my taste.
Besides, I couldn't eat enuf to make any dent in this devastating invasive's progress throughout the woodlands.

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/herbaceous/garlicmustard.html

Ecological Threat:

• Garlic mustard spreads into high quality woodlands upland and floodplain forests, not just into disturbed areas.
• Invaded sites undergo a decline on native herbaceous cover within 10 years.
• Garlic mustard alters habitat suitability for native insects and thereby birds and mammals.
• This European exotic occurs now in 27 midwestern and northeastern states and in Canada.
• Garlic mustard is a MDA Prohibited noxious weed (Controlled List) in Minnesota.

 

[dust1n]

For large yards, I prefer a broadleaf selective herbicide. It's cheaper & faster than vinegar, even the horticultural grade stuff.
For non-selective kills, glyphosphate is best. Roundup QuickPro has fast knock-down power, & is rain fast within an hour.
This is the best for killing the scourge of garlic mustard, which is wiping out a hellofalot of biodiversity across the US.

I was wondering what the hell those were. My backyard is like a breeding ground lab experiment for giant weedish angiosperms.

 

[Revoltingest]

I was wondering what the hell those were. My backyard is like a breeding ground lab experiment for giant weedish angiosperms.

They took over much of my place until I began a death campaign.
I'm hoping that in a few years the research on introducing predators will mitigate the problem.

Also, garlic mustard looks like dried up weedy crap when summer arrives.

 

[Breathe]

If I harvested all the dandelions in my yard, 1- 1/4 acres, it would look like this.

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Then feed it to the homeless; win-win.

 

[Alceste]

I pull 'em out. In the spring, I eat 'em. I want to try making dandelion wine, since it's meant to be good for the liver. Imagine getting drunk on something that's good for your liver!

 

[dust1n]

They took over much of my place until I began a death campaign.
I'm hoping that in a few years the research on introducing predators will mitigate the problem.

Also, garlic mustard looks like dried up weedy crap when summer arrives.

They makes sense, since they grow down here during the winter, but now appear to be obliterated by the sun (like they do in Texas ). Though since we haven't had a working lawnmower in a few months and we won't be getting one until the lease is up anyway, there's a nice variety of tall grasses and freaky hairy weeds.

I wonder if the Kudzu is as bad up there as it was in Alabama/Florida. I'm not really sure what plagues Texas yet.

In my brother's yard (Alabama), the entire yard is covered with wild onions. They look delicious.

 

[Skwim]

Come on guys. The stuff is great.

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