That really helped get rid of my dandelions. We spent years pulling but their taproots can be pretty deep and break off.
It turns out that if you don’t give them a cut down monoculture lawn with no competition dandelions don’t thrive as much.
We’ve got some wild strawberry and white clover that have taken over parts of the yard. The strawberries are like the size of my pinky fingernail. The clover gets very bushy which is pleasant to walk in and the rabbits like eating the flowers.
Edit: Dandelions thrive in soil with lots of nutrients. So if you stop cutting them and let everything use all those nutrients, they will struggle to grow. Instead of grass and dandelions, new wildflowers start to grow. At some point even your clover will thin down a bit and make room for beautiful and much needed species.
Just cut your lawn once at the end of the season and make sure to remove all the cuts from the ground. The wildflowers will have left seeds for the next year to grow.
Have you tried barely mowing for 3 years?
That really helped get rid of my dandelions. We spent years pulling but their taproots can be pretty deep and break off.
It turns out that if you don’t give them a cut down monoculture lawn with no competition dandelions don’t thrive as much.
We’ve got some wild strawberry and white clover that have taken over parts of the yard. The strawberries are like the size of my pinky fingernail. The clover gets very bushy which is pleasant to walk in and the rabbits like eating the flowers.
The dandelions are severely reduced.
Did you mean Woodland Strawberries?
Edit: Dandelions thrive in soil with lots of nutrients. So if you stop cutting them and let everything use all those nutrients, they will struggle to grow. Instead of grass and dandelions, new wildflowers start to grow. At some point even your clover will thin down a bit and make room for beautiful and much needed species.
Just cut your lawn once at the end of the season and make sure to remove all the cuts from the ground. The wildflowers will have left seeds for the next year to grow.
That certainly looks like them
And, we are getting a lot of wild flowers now, we didn’t even have to plant them.
The yard seems happy enough