Yesterday and Saturday, I filled a thirty gallon trash bag with dandelions, mostly from the back yard. That's not all of them, but it's as many as I could find. Unfortunately, between that, laundry and Sunday dimmer (grilled flank steak, fresh mushrooms in a pot on the grill with garlic/parsley butter, baked potatoes and Brussels sprouts), I got nothing else done.
On the other hand, that was quite a lot, and I did clean out the grill, too. The last time I used it, I had absent-mindedly left the lid up instead of closing it and shutting the vents. I found it after dinner but by then, there wasn't much fuel left. So that cost me a about an hour's worth of hardwood lump charcoal. Aside from a few unburned pieces of charcoal, it left only nice fluffy ash, easy to pour into a trash bag. I don't mind building up a nice bed of ash in the grill, but once it gets higher than the fire grate, it doesn't draw as well.
Update
6 hours ago
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Do you do something special with the dandelions, or are you weeding?
Just weeding. The roots are supposed to be good as a coffee "stretcher" if washed, dried and roasted, and the leaves of young plants are said to be tasty in salad, but I have not tried either.
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