How to get rid of creeping charlie without ruining my lawn?
Each year for past approximately 4 years, creeping charlie has taken over my yard. I weed and feed at regular intervals and try to maintain a good lawn although I live on clay. Last year I spot treated the creeping charlie and the treatments killed my lawn. Does anyone have a solution or some advise? I am not looking forward to what is going to happen to my beautiful lawn once the warm weather sets in. By the way, I live in upstate New York if that helps.
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Make sure the weed and feed will be effective on creeping charlie. You have to put the spring one on before they start growing. If you want to spot kill them, sometimes pulling them up (you have to make sure to get the roots.) will help, but they travel by a root system from a mother plant that could be a good distance away. There is weed killer out there that is safe for the lawn you could use also. I like the ones that you can choose spray or foam. The foam is really easy to control and apply right where you want it without overspray.
I have found that the weed and feed granular stuff in the store doesn't seem to work all that well. I think partly it's just not a potent, and partly because it has to adhere to the leaves of the weeds. Creeping Charlie has tiny leaves so they don't cling too well, even if you are good about going out and doing it when the dew is still on the lawn. I prefer to use our local company to come out and get it under control with their liquid treatment. Then once it's under control, once in the spring and once in the fall seem to be good to keep it at bay.
we used roundup on ours and pulled it up as it died