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The Victorious Hunters Gatherers Return from the Field...

We're smiling, because we will eat hearty tonight!







Actually they all ended up in a yard-waste bag, because none of us felt like dandelion greens.

Even though they were well-washed.


I had help testing out the Lee Valley high-pressure weed puller! It's quite a bit more fun than digging or levering out the dandelions, and I can safely say that the yard's watered now. In fact, I hope it isn't a muddy soup. It is creepy the number of feet underground that a stubby little one-flower dandelion will reach.
And unfortunately, there are still a LOT of dandelions in our yard. I think I did... 3/4ths of the back yard? Four hours work?

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No doubt, the trowel method only get the very top of the root. 6 inches for the trowel versus... 12-20 inches, depending on the root. (Yeah- two floors above-ground, six floors below. All set for armageddon...)

There are claw/lever removers that probably get the same amount of root as the trowel, but faster.

It's hard to say for speed, but I think the squirt-gun is overall slightly slower than the trowel method, becaue I've got the means (and the interest) for being certain they won't grow right back from the root. So I'll dig around with the gun to be sure it'll all come up when I pull.

I'm curious how much/little root I need to remove to guarantee it won't grow... Maybe the bottom half is inert. Maybe not.