Clever ways to deal with hungry dandelions in your garden

Kitty Scully has some fiendishly clever ways of dealing with the hungry dandelion in your garden.

THE other week, while out walking in glorious sunshine, I was stopped in my tracks by the sheer beauty of the carpets of blazing yellow dandelions now illuminating the banks of the Grand Canal.

Being not so enthusiastic about these perennial wild flowers in the middle of my vegetable garden, it was wonderful to bask in their beauty when naturalised in the wild.