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It is gonna take over my garden.HELP!!!!


Grant me patience to deal with my blessings !
Every new day is a gift.That's why we call it the present
 
Posts: 5617 | Location: Home | Registered: Sep 18, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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As a rule Creeping Charlie grows most bestest in poor, compacted soil so the easiest method of control is to find out what is wrong with your soil and correct that.


The sign of a good gardener is not a green thumb, it is brown knees.
 
Posts: 5837 | Location: Twin Lake, MI USA | Registered: Aug 19, 2004Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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creeping charlie grow anywhere and everywhere down here in the south, Kimm.... sun, shade, poor soil or the best beds possible .... my biggest patch is over the septic field....so you can hang up that 'poor soil' thing.....

Jacky.... pull it .... especially now when you can find the end thanks to the flower!.... track it back to where it contacts the soil and try to get the root...I know it's not an easy job... I've sat on my bum and pulled bag after bag of the stuff!!... but I'm getting ahead of it now.... I have other ground covers growing where it used to be prolific... sedums and ivy and ajuga... so now it has to go up and over other things, which makes it easier to find and pull!!.... over in the lawn, there's just little hope of eradication without heavy hitting herbicides.....and I don't do herbicides, so I'm still pulling.... I've come to accept that I'm going to have it, so as long as it's green and I can mow it, hey, it's a 'lawn' back there... *the rest of the 'lawn' is birdseed!!.. LOL!!!..... I've gone so far as to try the last straw... it works, but I'm afraid to go too far with it....it is the LAST alternative AFTER you've pulled and tried everything else...

so, get you a pillow for your knees and sit in the shady part of the garden and pull, pull, pull................at least it smells good!!!
 
Posts: 25758 | Location: Near Charlotte, NC, zone 7 | Registered: Sep 18, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
mgt
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I agree with Toots. Ya gotta pull that stuff up. If you do use an herbicide, it usually takes more than one application.


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Posts: 4357 | Location: Black Creek, WI Zone 5 | Registered: Sep 18, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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And don't forget to dispose of the pulled weeds.
If you leave it on the ground for a second (or so it seems) it will reattach itself to the ground. How do I know that, you might ask?
Because I am a lazy gardener or was!Smile
Connie
 
Posts: 346 | Location: Herkimer, New York USA | Registered: Sep 28, 2002Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
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