DANDELIONS are the BEST INDICATORS of...

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Happy to see someone talking about benefited of the lowly dandelion. It is the first flower every kid gives their mom.

Never was a fan of dandelion until 35 years ago when my son picked a bunch and came running to me with the biggest smile on his face. Priceless 🌺🌺🌺

I love dandelions because they're just flowers that plant themselves everywhere, turning what would be a lifeless piece of land in the middle of a highway intersection (just as an example) into a beautiful little garden

We need more people like him in the world, looks like he's having a good time.

How can you hate a plant that is 100% edible from flower to root? Dandelion wine, tea, salad, and the root is a coffee substitute. The jobs that you just taught me that it does... I love this plant even more.

I love dandelions. The first plant in the spring that I eat is dandelion. I saute the blossoms, use the greens for steaming or salads, make soup with blossoms and greens, and dry the root for herbal tea. I also pull out some dandelions and throw them to the chickens. Did I mention that I also make dandelion syrup for pancakes and ice cream? So many things to do with dandelions.

Due to lack of time I've neglected my yard for years now. The first year we had all kinds of weeds. The second year the grass got too tall and flopped and matted over. Now it is absolutely beautiful, it never gets too tall and has a mixture of clover ,mint, lemon balm, grasses, wildflowers, wild strawberries and carrots, and yes dandelion. I even get compliments on it now and I don't do a darn thing to it.

I've always considered them 'honey-filler', as bees will often 'fill' their pollen needs early in the season by hitting all the dandelions first...like 'fillers' in foods. The can also substitute in garden salads for using spinach leaves, as they are a 'bitter leaf'...but when chopped and mixed with iceberg loose leaf lettuce, can 'balance' a leaf salad rather-nicely, while providing a LOT of calcium to your diet (at the cost of Spinach's Vitamin K and Iron). Since I'm a BIG advocate of honey bees...I figure 'let them have their dandelions'...at least until the white clover comes in...short of fruit tree blooms, white clover makes the BEST honey!

I wish they would start teaching these ecological/environmental common sense lessons in elementary schools. Teach the young and in one generation we can change the country.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. - A.A.Milne

here in the UK, one of our most stunning garden birds, the Goldfinch, eats Dandelion seeds, that's another reason to allow Dandelions to flourish.

Hello Stefan, I've never seen a video of any 'wild' plants or 'weeds' put out by anyone the way you have done it. Its really educational. Thank you for reminding us the roles of some weeds for humankind benefits!

I love dandelions. They're good for the soil, super healthy to eat, and they're pretty. I also respect them for their strength and perseverance. When I grow up, I wan't to be a dandelion.

Dandelions are a Mothers first bouquet from their Children!

This year, after hearing about how important dandelions are for pollinators (they bloom early and insects like bees are emerging hungry for what dandelions provide), I elected to adopt the "No Mow May" approach to lawn care. There is a ton of them out there too... so if they can help repair the soil over time too, I'm good with that too. Usually, I'll cut the grass as soon as the dandelions pop up... which might explain why they never really had much of a chance to do their job. I hate cutting the grass anyway... so waiting until June to get the lawnmower out works out better for me too. Thanks for the info!

When I was a kid my grandmother used to send me out to the field behind her house to pick them. I'd come back with a brown paper shopping bag filled and she would make us a salad with vinegar, olive oil, sliced tomato and fresh Italian bread. If my mother wasn't around she would pour me a glass of wine and we had the perfect lunch together. 😀

My mom made the best dandelion greens, stir fried with bacon. She called it "spring tonic". She grew up on a hardscrabble farm in the 30's and they ate everything. I have a sign I'm putting in my yard this year - "Forgive my weeds, I'm feeding the bees!" Neighbors will still harass me but I'm learning to ignore them...

I sometimes eat the dandelions in my yard! Anyway, I leave the dandelions, the clover, and the other weeds that make pretty flowers because I feel it helps the pollinators be attracted to my yard. My fruit trees and berry bushes are laden with developing fruits now, so I think it works.

We sponsor a bee hive every spring. The dandelions are one of the first plants to flower in the early spring and get the bees something to feed from. So I leave the dandelions alone. After the rhodos and azaleas start to bloom out I remove the blooms aggressively and now feel better above leaving the plant for my soil