Is Creeping Charlie in your lawn a good thing or a bad thing?

Your local co-op has something to spray on it twice a year, that won't kill grass, you have to be consistent about spraying every year till you defeat it. Creeping charlie can be deadly to cows and horses, and a real pain, to gardeners

In the 60s & 70s as well.

Wow! It was growing in my garden and over took the whole garden. I am grateful for all the comments here because I learned a lot from it and suspect that perhaps my dog got sick from the bling on it. That probably should've been named after a vacuum cleaner!

not the bling on it. It was supposed to be From chewing on it.

I live in SE MN in a neighborhood of mostly mid century homes. Most trees are that old also, so sun can be very sparse. This causes a problem with getting nice grass to grow. Creeping Charlie keeps it green and doesn't cause problems in the lawn. I pull it out in the gardens by getting the little ball at soil level. I have a lot of hostas and get very little under them. I use a weed preventer in the spring and it helps keep it down in the more open areas in my garden, and I pull anything that tries to creep in from the edges. I have never actually had it choke out anything in my vegetable garden and in some areas I let it grow because it helps keep moisture in the soil where I don't have anything growing. Squirrels cause the damage in my gardens!

I read that you can put lime on it to kill it. I put regular lime, not garden lime, from Home Depot in a coffee can with hole punched in the lid, and sprinkled the whole lawn. The plant did not come back the next spring, but it did after that.

"At war" with Charlie ( and losing) have found that when ground is wet , it is easier to pull up a lot of the root system by weeding with a fork. Use the tines to lift the roots--less breakage, and easier with the smaller 'strings' of the plant.

Not going to win--have a 1/4 acre.....Charlie survives the dogs better than the grass does.....a professional landscaper that we called last year (estimate etc) said the only sure way was to scrape off the entire surface: replace topsoil and then re-sod and remain extremely vigilant since neighbours' yards are full of Charlie too. At the price quoted---Charlie and I are going to be 'At War' for a very long time.

I have been spraying creeping Charlie using one gallon of vinegar, one cup salt and two tbsps Dawn dish detergent solution. It kills it

I think the best way to get rid of weeds and unwanted guests is to pull them out by the roots. I've used vinegar to kill weeds between concrete but it browned my grass when I used it on broad leaf weeds.

I, also, fight this war. When the ground is damp, I pull as much as I can out by the roots. I also use the vinegar, salt, and dawn mixture on it, but you have to be careful because it will also kill the grass around it. Charlie and I will probably be enemies for a long time too. This year, I am trying something else. I have raked back the river rocks, scattered Snapshot (not exactly cheap, tho) and placed tar paper in strips along the edge of my landscaping where I have the most "Charlie" problems. Raked the rocks back in place. Time will tell.

Pull pull pull and use an herbicide

pour boiling water on them and watch them shrivel instantly

safest way...the good old fashioned pull method

This is the most hideous enemy in a yard I’ve ever encountered! It will take years to get treat it! Thanks neighbor

Industrial strength vinegar. I put it in my small sprayer and direct it. Even works on pigweed and poison resistant plants that are created from the use of commercial poisons thus you have to keep buying the next, more caustic poison. Good for monsanto profits. Everything they produce is toxic to pets and pollinators, well everything.

I love to see that that it is good for medicinal use... so everybody dig them up stick them in a pot...grow and put them in your salads... Then when you're digging up the weeds it won't feel like you're wasting your time because you can eat it later! silver lining in every cloud

https://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/insects-diseases-weeds/how-to-get-rid-of-creeping-charlie/

https://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2224530/how-to-get-rid-of-creeping-charlie

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/weeds/kill-creeping-charlie.htm

https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-kill-creeping-charlie-2131200

I have been fighting Creeping Charlie for years(also Wild Violets)n The Creeping Charlie each Place that it Blooms matures with a Bulb sometimes about the size of Maybe a dime and it has I am assuming hundreds of tiny seeds ,So if you don't pull it up before the seeds pop open, That is where you get More and More new plants ,I pull them like kinda teasing the plant because if not then they will, and do ,take root from different areas of the plant

Ihad a small spot that grew out of hand! It literally chokes out grass. Weed be gone was no help it did killed my grass! I had to hoe it out grass and all roots came up like little vains . Hope grass comes back! Good luck! !!

It low, it's green I pull up little bunches of wheat or hay, where the birds drop seeds, and leave the ground cover alone, I think it's pretty.

i wold love a creeping charlie havent been able to find one any ideas

I use vinegar on all my weeds including creeping Charlie. Just make sure you only spray what you want to kill otherwise it will kill what’s around it. I spray it, let it sit for 24 then pull them. It is also best to do it on a very hot day. For creeping Charlie I also spray the root area when I pull them.

I don't like using poisons on anything. They kill everything including the beneficial insects that live in the soil. I live in East TN and also have to deal with it. I've tried pulling it, but unless you do it daily, it soon overtakes your yard again. I'm at wits end and think I'll try spraying with vinegar. I'll also continue pulling it out.

Peggy

We've got creeping Charlie all over our yard. How do you get rid of it?

Try white vinegar sprayed on it. May burn the grass.

Over seed with grass seed, I mean a lot of grass seed to choke it out. And be persistent as well as patient.

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Creeping Charlie is a great herb to use in tincture form to help with head colds and sinus infections . Some common garden weeds to most people are herbal dream plants for others 😃

Hi Mary: It's bad, bad, bad, bad :( You really can't get rid of it, but you can try. Give this a go, it worked for me, for a while:

3 cups vinegar

1/2 cup of Epsom salts

Thoroughly combine the Epsom salts and vinegar in a sprayer. Spray Creeping Charlie or other weeds, covering the entire plant. Repeat application after several days may be necessary. Be sure that whatever you use is safe for pets and wildlife.

In the front yard, I just overseeded the entire yard surface, and it worked pretty good :) But, pulling it out using a small hand rake is about the only thing that - never mind - nothing works :(