Do not kill them! Eat them! You can put the leaves in salads, and you can boil them or steam them. The flowers can be made into delicious wine, or stir-fried, or steamed, or boiled. Dandelion leaves have large amounts of numerous vitamins, including A, C, D, and B-complexes, as well as minerals like iron, magnesium, zinc potassium, manganese, copper, choline, calcium, so why would you go to the store and pay money for something like lettuce, which has hardly any nutritional value!
Dig up the plants for the roots, wash the roots and dry them. Dandelion root tea is good for a huge list of things: to purify liver and gallbladder, to treat pneumonia, bronchitis, and other respiratory disorders. Dandelion can improve general health, and is beneficial to the kidneys, pancreas, spleen, stomach, and other organs. Dandelion is also recommended for the treatment of tinnitus, tonsillitis, osteoporosis, abscesses, anemia, boils, mammary tumors, cirrhosis, water retention, hepatitis, jaundice, rheumatism, and warts. Dandelion may also be effective in eliminating or averting age spots. Take a pinch of dried root and boil in about 8oz of clean filtered water, reduce the heat and let slow boil until water is brown. Drink twice a day hot or cold.
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