Hi Shawn, What color yarrow is it? I might be interested. I'm in Zone 5 too. Thanks!!

New dandelion plants will sprout from root pieces. Ask anyone who calls it a "weed" and has tried to obliterate it by pulling it. *grin* I've also seen it first hand with the bits of roots that have been left behind after I have harvested them. I don't know a specific method but as long as you don't live in a desert or Antarctica or some other extreme climate, I'm sure there are plenty of wild dandelion plants around to try experimenting with. Advice from those that pick wild dandelion, they say avoid the "red" dandelions for eating as a veggie. Stick with the "white" ones. Look down deep into the rosette to see the colors of which I speak. I believe the direct quote was, "one red-one will spoil the whole potful!" Good luck! FataMorgana

Huh. Well, I guess the next question is what Dawn's husband meant when he requested dandelion greens. Because to me, my mother and father and my Polish neighbors in St. Paul, "dandelion greens" referred to the early leaves of the common dandelion weed, with the bright yellow flowers and the puffball seed head. It's nothing ordered from a seed catalog, though I'm sure there's stuff out there that's essentially a better form of the wild dandelions.

The link didn't show me an image. It said error found, but I thought from the beginning that they were dandelion seedlings. They must change when mature, with the leaves changing shape. I have smothered them with fall leaves and wood chips on top of that in most of my mulch areas under trees and areas that will soon have perennials. In the growing season I hit them with a few drops of round-up, but they aren't actively growing and may not respond to round-up. I know lots of folks don't approve of useing weed killer but I have so much area to kill weeds in that I use round-up once a week to keep ahead of the weeds, which are 90 % dandelion leaf/rosettes. There is the occasional crabgrass or purslane, but these leaves seem to come along each spring and late summer/fall. I used to like them being there when I had bunnies as pets, they loved eating them. I picked them, lots but of course not all of them. I have gotten some corn gluten for use in spring to avoid the spring flush.