12 dogs walked today....finally I have sat down!

[Josie]

Today is my first day covering for Charlotte who owns Home Alone Pet Care. She has gone off to the Caribbean and left me in the care for her dogs.

I walked 12 today plus Dennis before and after..... Below are some of the ones I had...

Here is: Hamish, Dexter, Flynn, Jake and Woody

Here is: Alfie

Here is: Another Alfie who has a few anxiety problems so he wears his yellow collar out on walks

Here is: Dylan, Reggie, Eric and Meg

Maddie was there two but she likes to pose alone

 

[JudyN]

I love Maddie's necklace. Dandelions are so this year!

 

[Flobo]

What a lovely looking bunch, happy days dog walking !

 

[Josie]

What a difference good weather makes!!

 

[Whippylove]

Happy dogs
You definitely had lovely weather for walking , it was heavy showers here today and we got soaked !

 

[arealhuman]

Looks great! Are you out in today's weather too (rain )?

 

[Josie]

Yes I am @arealhuman - it has been truly miserable! I am cold to the bones.

Just out with Dennis - my final walk thankfully

How can it feel like winter again

 

[Violet Turner]

What friendly happy dogs you walk! Fun Fact: Dandelions are an ideal choice for dogs with chronic indigestion or those with gas. Dandelion leaf also acts as a diuretic, making it useful in cases of arthritis, kidney stones, congestive heart failure and gallbladder disease. And best of all, dandelion leaf contains lots of potassium, which can be lost through urination.
EDIT: https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/dandelion-much-more-than-a-weed/

 

[Josie]

What friendly happy dogs you walk! Fun Fact: Dandelions are an ideal choice for dogs with chronic indigestion or those with gas. Dandelion leaf also acts as a diuretic, making it useful in cases of arthritis, kidney stones, congestive heart failure and gallbladder disease. And best of all, dandelion leaf contains lots of potassium, which can be lost through urination.

Good fact @Violet Turner but do you have a link so that people looking can see some more facts? Would be very helpful

 

[Violet Turner]

Yes i will edit it

 

[Josie]

Yes i will edit it

Thankyou!

 

[leashedForLife]

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"Dandylion" / dandelion didn't arrive in the New World by accident - it was brought here by the early colonists exactly b/c it's so useful.
The early greens, before the plant blooms, are a nice salad & serve as a spring tonic for bodies starved of fresh greens, during a winter of stored root-veg; when the plants bloom, their leaves become bitter. When the greens are no longer nice to eat, the blossoms make a good wine.

Its English name is a corruption of the French 'dent de lion', "lion's tooth", for the jagged large-toothed leaves, which grow in a flat rosette around the tap-root.

GARDENING TIP:
to get rid of dandelion in one's lawn without toxic chemicals nor a taproot-chisel, CUT THE LAWN AT LEAST 3" TALL & preferably 4", to shade-out the sun-loving, flat-growing herbs. The lawn will be happier & much-more drought resistant, as the soil surface of a 3" lawn can be 15' F cooler than the cut surface in full sun. That keeps the water in the soil where it belongs, vs boiling it off & leaving the grass to thirst.
Plantain, dandelion, burdock, & many other tough taproot broadleaves are sun-lovers who like to sprawl widely - a high-cut lawn forces their leaves upward & limits their solar power.
Many home lawn-mowers cannot be adjusted to cut higher than 2 to 2.5" max; just replace all 4 too-small wheels with larger diameter wheels, & thus raise the entire deck. Easy to do, & not expensive - the money & time savings, plus the improved health of the lawn, are well-worth the minimal investment & pottering about with tools.
The local streams will also appreciate having cleaner runoff, with fewer poisons.

- terry

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[JudyN]

GARDENING TIP:
to get rid of dandelion in one's lawn without toxic chemicals nor a taproot-chisel....

Alternatively, learn to live with them - dandelions are a vital food source for a lot of wildlife who, let's face it, need all the help they can get: Let dandelions grow. Bees, beetles and birds need them

 

[leashedForLife]

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I like dandelions, @JudyN -
i wrote that for the suburban-dweller in the U.S.A. who's surrounded by neighbors that hire LawnDoctor & other herbicide- / pesticide- / fungicide-happy services, & who will cheerfully murder her or him, when they see ONE dandelion bloom in a 1/4-acre lot, & who also complain endlessly - to other neighbors, to the local authorities, to their spouses, relatives, & friends -- about the presence of any broadleaves in someone ELSE's grass.

I don't know if U're aware of it or deal with it in the U.K., but here in the USA, entire blocks or whole HOA developments & apt-complexes sign-up with particular lawn-care companies, most of who over-use highly toxic, very persistent ag-chemicals to control "weeds", pests, & the fungi that often attack lawns when the dam*ed lawn-care chemicals kill-off the normal, healthy microbes & invertebrates that keep lawns & soils healthy.
If as a new resident, U buck the prevailing wisdom of established neighbors or the condo Assoc, & choose to go green & use nontoxic lawn-care products, U'd better do a bl**dy good job of it - or they will not only cold-shoulder U socially, they'll raise holy H*** with the powers that be, & do their best to get U fined, evicted, or pressured into hiring the same chemical-mad service that they use.

Hence my helpful tip for both avoiding toxins, AND preventing dandelions - picking every bloom before it goes to seed, while the current popn shrinks, is also helpful in de-fusing the neighbors' wrath.

- terry

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[JudyN]

Fair enough, Lfl Your garden has to be pretty wild for you to get complaints in the UK - like you could lose small children in it, or there's a whole community of rats. In my area, anyway. I'm still angry that in some areas you're not allowed to have a washing line in the garden because it doesn't look nice, more or less forcing people to use tumble dryers and screw up the environment even more

 

[Sezzy]

I was always told as a child that if you pick dandelions you’d wet the bed!

 

[Josie]

I was always told as a child that if you pick dandelions you’d wet the bed!

I was told that to!

 

[JudyN]

A common name for the dandelion used to be piss-a-bed, and it has diuretic qualities, though probably not through touch.

I know the leaves are edible but that always surprises me as the stems taste disgusting!