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Help!! anyone have a sure fire idea for ridding my lawn of Creeping Charlie? It's bad this year,about 60% of the lawn is infeste

All suggestions are welcomed & appreciated!

Thanks!

The only sure-fire way is to keep pulling it out by hand.
A glyphosate will kill the Charlie but also any green next to it and infects the soil for a time. Some broadleafed herbicides might express on their label that it kills Charlie but experience shows it is very difficult to control because of the way it moves through the soil.
You must pull it ALL out if you are to be successful. Pulling just the green, and leaving the roots, does no good--in fact, it makes the problem worse, it makes the plant that much stronger to return.

Oh yes, I have that too!! Where does it come from to start with? I have never seen it bloom, so where are the seed?

Pattyo

If it is too much for hand pulling/digging...even though I don't like to do it, I will apply weed/feed one time. Just don't use any grass clippings in compost or for mulch if you do this...get rid of them in the garbage. I usually wait thru 2 cuttings before I use the clippings again.

yikes! I was afraid of this - looks like I may have to round up the whole yard & lay some new sod next year - can't see that there woudl be enough time in my life to pull the buggers by hand

Thanks for your input ladies!

NC hillbilly - my charlie blooms lovely little purple flowers. I'm finding it's the underround runners that allow it to take over

I had it, too. I used Weed B Gone. I had to spray the stuff 3 times about a week & 1/2 apart, but that got rid of it. I didn't have to use the round-up type killer, as there was no way I could afford a whole new lawn.

Dear eicy mn,
Your pot reminded me of my Dad! He prided(sp?) himself on how his lawn looked and heated the creeping charlie.The sad part was that it seemed to have taken over our yard, so any night of the week or on the wekends, you could find my father out in the front or back yard on his hands and knees,pulling up the "junk"(as my father called it)There were even times when he would be out there in the rain pulling it up!( he claimed that the rain softened the ground and made it easier to pull the "##### stuff easier to pull out! Needless to say, that drove my mother crazy!(maybe that is why he did it ?)LOL. One of the things that he did try with a lot of succes was to pour hot vinager on the plant.
That did seem to kill it. But if you want to try that, make sure that the vinger will also kill any grass that is around the "stuff" it will also effect the acidid of the soil.In the end,
Dad went bck to pulling it al by hand. If that is what you decide to do, just maske sure that when you pull it that you get the roots and all(it seems to have a long tap root) which will only cause to to regrow.
I know that my Dad would not like my attidude, but I figgur that as long as it is green and matches my lawn, who cares!
Mary
Dad tried everthint

Weed-B-Gon by Spectracide.
Spray it and you will be done with it.
At 60% it will take you a period of time to eradicate it--years????
Unfortunately we used Penn State grass seed in a large area. Five tons of good top soil spread and that horrid Penn State stuff. Now we have Charlie back! I know; a small percentage will be weed and inert matter. Well, Penn State doesn't deal in small percentages.
Eventually I'll attack with Spectracide and eradicate Charlie.

It didn't take years to get rid of it for me. It too 3 applications of weed b gone & that was it. All in one season.

Creeping Charlie, aka many other names, is a persistant problem especially in soils that are somewhat shady and wet, although I too have it growing in full sun on a soil where there is a high water table therefore at least part of the criteria. The best means of control is to grow a good, healthy turf which means correcting any soil problems such as moisture, pH, and nutrient deficiencies or imbalances that keep your grass from growing in good and thick.
You more than likely will never quite rid your lawn of this, or any other "weed", since they are spread around by the birds that hang, or fly, around.
This link may be of some help.
http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/pastpest/200114e.html

weed be gone is on my shopping list for the weekend. Thanks all for advice on this...wish me luck

The current issue of Readers Digest magazine has a good article about how we are poisoning ourselves by spraying this stuff around. Since no research has been done on what affects these poisons have on humans we do not know what we doing to ourselves and our children when spraying those poisons around.

I say a couple of years for me because the dang stuff came up elsewhere.
Weed-B-Gon is the best I can offer.
If you have a mass of it, it can take a while for you to hit all of it.

Keep in mind that spraying a poison around treats the symptom of a problem. Simply spraying that plant poison around, without correcting the underlying problems with the soil, means that you will be spraying that plant poison around again.
Those plant poisons induce an Asthma attack in me.

Oh that Charlie is making me nuts! Hand pulling & seeing it more & more! it mixed in with my coral bells & the leaves looked so much alike you could hardly notice & then it was toooooo late! Grrr

Oh, Kimm, Weed-B-Gon and other herbicides used in moderation are fine to use. A greener, healthier grass is home to more beneficial insects and worms, therefore birds.
Cut us a break!