Josh Clark

You have to dig them up.

And even after you dig them up, you might not get them.

Because one of the things that I didn't know about dandelions is I knew they grew from a taproot.

You have to get that taproot up or else it's just futile.

But that taproot can grow, depending on the age of the dandelion, over a dozen feet, meters, four meters into the ground.

Meters.

And that makes it really hard to get rid of.

And so if you're like a groundskeeper for a golf course or something like that, you have to really keep up with the dandelions because they'll spread really fast and they're really hard to get rid of once you do start trying to get rid of them.

Yeah, for sure.

I got to say this last fact from Kyle because it goes back to the lawns, but this really kind of drives it home about how not great a perfect green lawn is for our society.

There was a study in 2005, residential lawns in the United States make up 2% of the land but require more irrigation than any domestic agricultural crop.

I've got one to piggyback on that.

The U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service says that homeowners use up to 10 times more pesticides per acre than farmers use on their crops.

So we're using this stuff, overusing it, and we're using it on stuff that's not productive land just to keep up with the Joneses so they don't think we're communist spies.

Yeah.

You know, I walk Gibson in the mornings and there are the only lawns that he ever like rubs his face in are the most perfect green ones.

And I know that it's because they have recently been sprayed and he smells it and is trying to rub all in that stuff.

And it drives me bonkers.

Yeah, it's it's like I would love to just let my lawn and you me to just go to like wildflowers, go to weeds, you know, just mow it.