Gardening Wars

There has been an explosion of dandelions in the neighbourhood this spring. It probably stems from the hot dry early part which damaged the grass  and allowed them to get a massive head start. The weather has now morphed into cool and wet which is allowing the grass to recover. Unfortunately it's too late to stop the spread of dandelions. Since we don't use chemicals on our lawn hubby and I have put in a lot of work in digging out the dandelions in the front. It looks good but we still have a small side and huge backyard to get under control. I'm thinking that the only way I can tackle this and keep sane will be to deal with it on small space at a time.
Although I might resort to paying some little people to pluck all the dandelion flowers to keep them from going to seed.