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How Do I Kill Dandelion?

I have a dandelion that is growing nearly on top of my daylily. How do I kill it without killing my daylily? AGH! I hate those stupid things.  My dad weeded my flower beds, but he must not have gotten the entire taproot of that dayum thing.
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Re: How Do I Kill Dandelion?

  • ~NB~~NB~ member
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    Spray it with glyphosate after placing a nonpermeable barrier (such as a pie plate, an old plastic notebook binder, or a cut open milk container) between the two plants to protect your lily from drift.

    Or dig up and replant the daylily somewhere else, while you execute the dandelion.

    Or dig up both, and then just replant the daylily.

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  • I would either try to dig it up (the dandelion) or use a weeder to get it all out from the root.
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    I just dug all of mine up this year, including the ones that right up against my good plants. I have used Roundup in the past, setting it to foam and spraying up close right at the base of the weed, and it has never hurt the neighboring plants.
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