Get Goose

We have a pretty big yard…a little over an acre. It’s slowly coming around. When we bought our house a few years ago, the yard was non-existent. The supposed landscaping consisted of nine-foot Boxwoods growing into and on top of the house. We immediately ripped everything out and started from scratch. My husband has aerated and seeded the yard several times, and finally, this spring, it appears to be taking hold. I need to hobble our dogs, so that the digging frenzy ends. But, other than that, and barring some hideous drought this summer, we should have new grass to speak of. There’s just this one little issue that needs some attention. Dandelions. What the hell? They are persistent little suckers, aren’t they? And, wouldn’t you know that a Google search turns up very few ways to kill them. It actually suggests hand picking the things (the entire root included) as the best way to get rid of them! As if that’s really going to happen. Suddenly, the dandelion is like this endangered species or something. All of these websites urging people to save the dandelions: they’re delicious, they’re nutritious, they’re healing herbs. What?! They are weeds everybody. And, they propagate like rabbits, with those seeds flying all over the place. I am on my way to Lowe’s to find the dandelion death eater. I am on a mission. Dandelions beware.