You’ve had this happen to you. It’s frustrating, unsightly, and if you do nothing the issues gets nothing but worse.
They get a toehold, out of control, and you become desperate to minimize or eliminate spring dandelions as soon as possible.
Here’s the issue, and the solution.
Dandelions can be hard to kill in the spring if soil temperature doesn’t reach 50 degrees, give or take. If you spray them when the ground is cold you’ll stunt their growth, but you won’t kill them. That said, in about two months they come back with a vengeance, stronger than before.
So here’s what you do. NOW is the time to kill dandelions. Spray them now while the soil temperature is at least 20 degrees warmer and the material translates to the roots and kills them much more efficiently. You go into dormant season without them sitting there, waiting to explode in the spring. You kill them right down to the tap root, but you need the warmer ground temperature to do it!
Of course, dandelion seeds are in the air constantly, so come spring there’s going to be at least some new growth…but if you’ve sprayed them in the fall that new growth is going to be much easier to control, if you even need to.
Sometimes you have no choice but to address them in the spring, but people spend a lot of money spraying before it’s warm enough to be effective. Do it now and there’s no question about it being effective. You kill the parent plants before they can multiply. You might want to give us a call (937-335-6418).
Try it. It works.
