Dandelions are conflicting, to say the least. Some people are in favour of the little yellow flowers, others just want them gone. Sometimes those can be the same person.
Like my mother. (Happy Birthday to her, by the way.) She can sit and fondly reminisce about picking the greens from the lawn for dinner one minute, then want every possible sign of yellow immediately and totally removed from her lawn.
Then you have the people who tell you not to mow your lawn this time of year because there isn’t much in bloom and the bees can use the flowers. Feed the bees!
I’ll be honest, I’m pro bee. I tend to like food, so having bees around seems like a good idea to me. But the idea of having a good excuse not to mow the lawn I like even better. So Go Bees!
But the idea of having a sea of yellow for a lawn, which quickly turns to a sea of grey, then blows next door to start the process again is not likely to make your neighbours happy. Although the fact that the bees are more likely to help feed me, even indirectly, gives them the advantage.
But the other day, a picture popped up in my Facebook feed. It was a couple Canada geese. One small goose, obviously new to the world, and a larger goose who was standing guard… sort of. Fact was, the larger, adult goose had just snapped up a dandelion. The dandelion was obviously threatening the baby goose and had to be terminated immediately. The fact that the goose also found it delicious was just a bonus.
But there’s the thing. Who knew geese liked to eat dandelions?
So I now have the solution, and it was all in the way I was looking at the problem. I don’t have too many dandelions. I have too few geese.
