I got the best news today from my sister. She called to tell me that my BIL went out to buy weed and feed to kill all the dandelions in the grass, and all he could hear in his head was my voice saying Don't do it. So he didn't buy the poison, he pulled them out by hand. She made my day with that story.
datgirl

Sweet! Those handy little dandelion weed poppers are great for the job and pretty cheap. I use mine for dandelions and thistles that pop up in the garden area. The rest of them just get mowed.
I think the best way to handle weeds is to cut the grass a little higher and give it a dose of compost to feed it just like you would your other plants. Hopefully, the grass will crowd out the weeds. Eventually!!

Have you ever tried dandelion greens in a salad? They are edible. I recall my mom using those in salads with a hot bacon vinegrettte on various occasions.

Dandelions are edible, the roots are a great febrifuge (fever breaker) and diuretic. A tasty wine can be made from the flowers and can also be used to make a safe non toxic yellow die. Know what you are killing before you kill it.
I believe someone has a signature line that says " A weed is a plant we have not found a use for"....Dandelions are handy to have around. A tea of the leaves and roots are also a great liver cleanser and helps remove toxins and free radicals from the blood and body.

Another reason not to poison dandelions has popped up in my yard this spring. Clover! Cool! Had I applied weed killer last year, I reckon that green little helper wouldn't be popping up right now.

Even better, why not leave 'em where God puts 'em?

The ones in my yard have gone to seed--and the Goldfinches and Indigo Buntings love them! They've been eating them all week, tearing up the seedheads. One little male Goldfinch even sat on my birdbath and snag his little heart out. Quail love the seedheads too I've heard, tho' I've not seed any in the yard.

You never know when you will influence someone. Congratulations!

farmhound pointed out that the Dandelion greens are an excellent addition to salads and those blossoms also provide an early, and necessary, food source for our pollinators and beneficial insects. They also give little kids something to pick and take to Mom.

I like em. I pick em in my flower beds and eat em. (Really don't like em that much, but they are food.) Someday we may all be very happy for em. The way the world is going we are headed for trouble. I am studying up foraging. I seem to do better at it than growing food. I still have to get my sprouts in decent shape. Some are fair others just die. Growing food from seed is tougher than it looks. I keep on keeping on and hopefully will find the right formula someday.

My dandelions are just starting to bloom. I love them just for the cheery yellow flowers. But I also love to sit out there and watch the honey bees foraging.

I *totally* respect all of you dandelion eaters.

I, personally, have rarely tasted something so nasty, so I will continue popping mine out by hand.

Now, mint--that I'd seriously consider mowing and letting take over the yard [Dh says, "Nope." So I've been ripping it back.]

I just let mine be. Heck, theres just too many to pull. We just mow them down when the stems stick up. I've never eaten them, but I did get pretty drunk on some dandelion wine a few years back.
datgirl

I dug a bunch of them out of one of my veggie beds thinking I'd put them in salad. After munching on a leaf or two, I decided they weren't for me.

I just let them be in the lawn, but they take up too much room in the veggie beds.

The bees love them!

Dandelions are edible? Yes, maybe so, but that does not make them palatable. They go on the list with brussels sprouts, and okra. Yuk!

I'm with ya on dandelions and brussel sprouts, but I gotta disagree on the okra.