I really hate the devil.
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It's no mow May in Vermont, Dandelions are often a pollinators first meal, that and the wild violets, etc. My garden beds always look untended in May, because i leave them and the johnny jump ups in until they bloom. I used to gather the root before the plant flowered, or even budded, but then someone told me about the bees, so I wait for them to flower,, go to seed, and then harvest. Idea being that when the plant is flowering, all the energy goes to that, and the roots are most potent when the plant is done doing its thing, which is to make more of itself.
Maybe harvest a percentage of dandelions and leave the rest? I saw an Irish lady talk about that, say if she wants flowers she takes no more than 10% of what's in bloom, of she wants roots before blooms, similar thing.
"No mow may" is so bad for the environment. It disrupts the insects, brings in rodents that will likely never leave and I have now heard 3 different horror stories locally about someone running over a nest of either ground wasps or a bunny afterwards