Dandelions are food. Try picking all the yellow flowers and steep them for 10-20 minutes in a French press. This is the easiest way to prevent them from multip

Dandelions are food. Try picking all the yellow flowers and steep them for 10-20 minutes in a French press. This is the easiest way to prevent them from multiplying while not wasting them. Dandelions are pioneer species, they out complete grass but they have a really long tap root and are pulling up minerals from deep and bring them to the surface. They are very short and cannot complete with the shrub layer, the vining layer, and tree layer, and the canopy layer. Heck they cannot even complete with normal prairie plants which grow 4 to 8 feet tall at my house. A lot of dandelions taking over an area is a hint that that area is lacking a lot of basic needs of other plants. The dandelion fills a void to make the place more suitable for other life, not the other way around. Steam the leaves to reduce the bitter taste. Wash the white latex from leaf stems which is also bitter.