Poe Annua
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Scientific Name:
Taraxacum Common Names: Puff Ball, Blow Ball, Cankerwort Family: Asteraceae General Description: Jagged tooth like green leaves with yellow flowers that turn into seed balls. Related Weeds: Milk Thistle, Cudweeds, Flatweed |
What is a Dandelion?
Dandelion are aggressive fast growing broadleaf weeds that can quickly take over a yard. Dandelions start a small yellow flowers that look like mini sunflowers. The mini yellow follow then turn into seed balls that spreads. Dandelion can spread naturally, but are often spread by humans. Adults and children like to pick up dandelion once that have formed seed balls and blow them. While blowing dandelions is fun, this increases the rapid spread of Dandelions over the yard.
Controlling Dandelion Growth:
There are four ways to control Dandelions. We will breakdown the 4 ways with pros and cons of each control method.
1. Pulling or Digging: It is fairly easy to pull or dig up dandelions, especially when the soil is wet. The biggest concern is that you have to get the entire root for them not to come back. The second concern is getting Dandelions pulled or dug up before they seed. Once they seed, the seeds can easily spread and create more Dandelions before or during the removal process. This can be time consuming, back breaking, and exhausting. This method will also not prevent the weeds from coming back, but get rid of them after they are have already been established.
2. Spraying with organic herbicides: Clove oil and vinegar spray are both natural organic ways to kill Dandelions. While this method does work it is about repetition. You must treat everyday, and retreat until the Dandelion is dead. You also want to make sure it is dead before reseeding can occur so the Dandelion does not spread. This method will not prevent the weeds from coming back, only treat them after they have come up.
3. Spraying with post emergent: You can spray Dandelions with post emergent, such as round up. Again this will not prevent the weeds from coming back, only treat them after they have come up. Another con is this could kill the grass area right around the weed if any post emergent that is not turf friendly is used.
4. Spraying with pre-emergent: This is by far the best method for controlling Dandelions.
1. Pulling or Digging: It is fairly easy to pull or dig up dandelions, especially when the soil is wet. The biggest concern is that you have to get the entire root for them not to come back. The second concern is getting Dandelions pulled or dug up before they seed. Once they seed, the seeds can easily spread and create more Dandelions before or during the removal process. This can be time consuming, back breaking, and exhausting. This method will also not prevent the weeds from coming back, but get rid of them after they are have already been established.
2. Spraying with organic herbicides: Clove oil and vinegar spray are both natural organic ways to kill Dandelions. While this method does work it is about repetition. You must treat everyday, and retreat until the Dandelion is dead. You also want to make sure it is dead before reseeding can occur so the Dandelion does not spread. This method will not prevent the weeds from coming back, only treat them after they have come up.
3. Spraying with post emergent: You can spray Dandelions with post emergent, such as round up. Again this will not prevent the weeds from coming back, only treat them after they have come up. Another con is this could kill the grass area right around the weed if any post emergent that is not turf friendly is used.
4. Spraying with pre-emergent: This is by far the best method for controlling Dandelions.
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