What’s a dandelion summer season season?

In response to M. C. Beaton, who wrote about it all through the comfortable thriller, The Skeleton all through the Closet (2001), a dandelion summer season season is a scorching summer season season, foretold by an abundance of dandelion blooms all through the spring.

We’ll should take her phrase for it on account of I searched and searched on-line to verify a second present¹ for this little little little bit of British information however acquired proper right here up with nothing, other than for lots of particulars about dandelion-the-weed, dandelion-the-useful-herb, and a e-book referred to as Dandelion Summer time season by Lisa Wingate (2011), which I’m now curious ample to review to see if it confirms this definition or has nothing to do with it.

(I see that Dandelion Summer time season gained the 2012 Carol Award for Girls’s Fiction from the American Christian Fiction Writers. Correctly, there goes my plan to call an award after myself.)

Anyway,

M. C. Beaton wrote in her cozy thriller:

“Nation folks regularly talked about in case you occur to noticed fairly a number of dandelions, it was going to be a scorching summer season season.” “Dandelion Summer time season,” talked about Fell and laughed.

Spherical correct proper right here, when folks see fairly a number of dandelions they usually suppose, “Geez, that individual particular person doesn’t care about their yard on account of they let dandelions develop in it.”

Correctly, that merely isn’t true in my case. I care about my yard. It’s merely that I’ve planted 1000’s of crocuses in my yard for early spring bloom, so I don’t use herbicides to kill off dandelions on account of those chemical compounds would kill off the crocuses too. And no particular person needs that.

“Nonetheless the dandelions?!” folks ask. “What do you do about dandelions?”

I don’t do one factor about them.

Open your eyes inside the summertime and go looking for these dandelions. You don’t see many in bloom all through {the summertime}, do you? I can say from expertise that dandelions flower for decrease than every week or two all through the spring. Then, in case you occur to happen to mow them off and protect your grass reduce three inches or taller, they’ll fade away by early summer season season.

I ought to make clear. The dandelions will nonetheless be there—they’re perennial flowers with deep faucet roots—however they gained’t be flowering. They’ll merely be lined up by the yard.

So even with out killing off the dandelions, I actually really feel I’ve ample yard.

I even have ample dandelions to look out out if it’s going to be a dandelion summer season season, if that little little little bit of nation information applies to my space of the world.

*******

Within the occasion you happen to’d desire to take heed to me and Dee Nash discuss extra about lawns, this week’s podcast episode is the one for you. Within the occasion you happen to’d favor to have a look at my week all through the yard, try my weekly e-newsletter.

And let me know in case you occur to happen to’ve heard of dandelion summers or simply suppose you had a dandelion summer season season this yr.

1. I’m now a second present if any particular person searches on-line for “what’s a dandelion summer season season!” ↩︎