As I was on my way to the mailbox this evening (while Julie was grilling pork chops for dinner) that's exactly what confronted me. Heads up past my knees, stalks the diameter of a McDonalds milkshake straw. And those serrated leaves standing up in the underbrush like so many machete blades.
Some of the stalks were beaten down to the ground, others curving snakelike around the adjacent plants. I pulled a bunch of the heads -- even if they grow back, at least it caused the weed to waste some resources. And I wasn't about to mess with taproots the size of baking potatoes.
Posted by wallich at May 29, 2003 11:15 PMI have also learned this morning that slugs like dandelion leaves. Especially near the bottom where you might grab them to pull a plant up.
Posted by: paul at May 31, 2003 09:56 AM*fainting dead away*
Posted by: julie at May 31, 2003 01:46 PMFriendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Posted by: Levy Robert J. at January 26, 2004 07:16 AM