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Diane Lints's avatar

Thanks for your care-ful philosophy about our earths' systems. I am looking forward to making "dandee" for the first time as soon as our snow melts (fellow Vermonter here!) and will also make the tincture for my heartburn. From a one quart jar, after straining, do you have an approximate yield so I can muster up enough amber bottles? Like you, we have them growing all over the mowed portion of of our lawn and now I have uses for the ones to be removed from the flower beds without harming the total population. I use an indestructible stainless steel transplant spade from Lee Valley Tools (one of the best sources of interesting and useful stuff) to dig them out. One stomp right next to the plant, push side-wise on the handle to lift the roots a little, remove spade, and the dandelion will pull out cleanly. I walk through the beds loosening all the plants, then come back and remove them. Do check out all the bespoke tools in this line from Lee Valley. they are amazing. I have used the fork and two of their spades for about 35 years, some of them professionally as a landscape designer/installer/maintainer. They are all in good working order today. And the prices are still reasonable. Being less than 5' tall I like the border spade/fork as they have shorter handles. Not sure that I would be comfortable with the rnewer circular grips though!

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Mrs. Francis-Arway's avatar

My grandmother used to make dandelion with in the 1930's to the 1970's, and father used to make us dandelion salad. I love how today so many people are using dandelions in so many different ways.

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