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Dandelion - Friend or Foe?

The dandelion is a familiar visitor in my garden and where it does not bother, it is allowed to spread freely. This is because it is both my friend and my enemy.

The dandelion - my friend:

  • All parts of the dandelion can be eaten - leaves, flowers, root - and processed into, for example, dandelion syrup
  • Dandelion is an ancient medicinal plant and can be used to cleanse the body
  • Dandelion flowers can be dried and used in tea
  • Dandelion adapts to the conditions - If there is plenty of space, it grows up to a metre high and if you mow the grass, it adapts to a height of 5cm and still achieves a flower - That's fantastic
  • Dandelion has beautiful yellow, bee-friendly flowers all summer
  • Dandelions are one of the first plants to respond to sunlight in early summer and start to flower when the first bees and insects are struggling to find food
  • Children can make beautiful flower wreaths from dandelions
  • Dandelion is an excellent food plant for chickens, rabbits, etc.

 

The dandelion - my enemy:

  • Dandelion is hard to get rid of where it is unwanted - You have to get the whole root up, otherwise it just shoots up again and with more stems
  • If you pick a yellow flower, dandelion doesn't just wither away - it can still transform its yellow flower into a seed pod and disperse its seeds with the wind
  • Dandelion always pops up in the most annoying places and can grow between tiles where it is impossible to remove the root
  • The white sap of the dandelion causes black spots on the fingers that are difficult to remove
  • The dandelion cannot be used for bouquets as the flowers close immediately after picking

Conclusion: For me, the dandelion is more a friend than a foe. It's a pain to weed it out again and again in the vegetable bed, but I enjoy the yellow flowers in summer and the flavour of dandelion leaves in my spring salads more!

Pictured: A dandelion where I only got half of the root up last summer. It is now shooting from below with 20 new plants from the severed root.

 

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