nfriedly 10 hours ago

My dad told me that one year his school held a contest over the summer to see who could get the longest dandelion root.

dsalzman 10 hours ago

Whats the units?

  • MikeCoats 10 hours ago

    Centimetres.

    Their 13 cm high plant specimen had a 456 cm deep root.

  • zyberzero 10 hours ago

    It says cm, so centimeters (1/100 meter) - slightly less than 0.4 inches

    • tejtm 6 hours ago

      decimal place issues... I hope.

      there are ten mm in a cm

      456cm == 4560mm

      there are 24.5 mm per inch (it is the law).

      4550mm / 25.4 = 179.527 inches

      or about 14.9 feet

      which is about 5 yards

      which is 20% of a 'murican football field if that helps

      • jacobolus 5 hours ago

        The above comment was pointing out that each 1 centimeter is slightly less than 0.4 inches. If you want to be more precise, each centimeter is about 0.3937 inches.

        • tejtm 2 hours ago

          Your correction to my perception of what you intended 0.4 inches to represent is accepted.

fragmede 11 hours ago

no wonder the damned things keep coming back!

  • loandbehold 10 hours ago

    That's where glyphosate comes in handy.

    • alphan0n 7 hours ago

      The cancer was worth it to rid ourselves of a mildly offensive flower.

      • 0_____0 5 hours ago

        I reckon you could skip spraying it if you were going to eat it anyway.

        Did you know that wheat in the US is sprayed with glyphosate right before harvest? It causes all the wheat to dry evenly, avoiding the need to cut down the wheat and windrow it for drying. This means extra weeks in the growing season to squeeze another crop in.

collinvandyck76 10 hours ago

Always good to have a weed puller in your toolshed. A stand-up puller, specifically, that operates as a lever, allowing it to first grab deeply and then through a rotation of the handle it pulls out quite a bit of the root system. A lifesaver if you have a rain garden which is really just a synonym for weed garden.

  • fsckboy 5 hours ago

    the link is to a dandelion root system that goes 450 centimeters into the ground, or 4.5 meters / 5 yards.

    we'd like to know how much of that weed would your weed puller pull if your weed puller pulled a full pull?

    • garbagewoman 15 minutes ago

      I would not actually like to know that, since such a device seems impossible

  • colordrops 9 hours ago

    Any recommendations for a particular weed puller?