I have never worried about the dandelions on our property. They are easy to pull out of soft soil by the root, especially after a rain. To get rid of dandelions in a lawn on clay soil is as good as impossible. Fortunately, there is no lawn on our property.
I like what they are doing on the boulevards in Vancouver where they are allowing people to plant gardens on them. Not so in Winnipeg! Inkster Boulevard is a four-lane street with a wide boulevard between the lanes. There, a kind resident used to teach the neighborhood children to garden, right in front of the school where I was teaching. The program was very popular and was featured in the daily papers. Unfortunately, those gardens contravened city bi-laws which do not allow boulevard plants to be higher than 4". The city therefore demolished the gardens and replaced them with sod. Inkster Boulevard is once again seeded in grass and dandelions, and so is every other boulevard in the city except for the ones which are sprayed with ample amounts of weed-killer.
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