I have been pulling it out but it seems the more i pull the more i get,maybe i should just have a lawn of creeping charlie.
2007-03-31 02:55:20 · 6 answers · asked by moneedi1949 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Aha, one of my favorite menace plants. Pulling the stuff up by the handfuls is the first step. Try to follow the vine. Slowly lift a piece and use a butterknife under the dirt to follow the vine so you get the whole plant. Or just pull it out by the handful, Get as many out by hand as you can before they flower. Each little purple head produces many seeds. Now there are two things that work...spraying the plants with stale beer or spraying the plants with a mixture of boric acid and water. Use about one taplespoon per cup. You can get boric acid at the pharmacy. It will not hurt your dogs and it will not kill grass. I used to enlist the kids who I could convince that ripping up creeping charley was fun. The didnt believe me for long but they did rip up a lot of the creeping charley. The stuff you rip up ,bag or burn. Do not let it just lay in a pile around the yard because the little creeps are hardy and will try and root and seed again even though they have been pulled up. It took me a year to two to get rid of all of it but my yard was 85% creeping charley.
2007-03-31 04:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by juncogirl3 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The good thing about ground ivy - or creeping charlie as you call it, is that it does work pretty well as a ground cover to crowd out other weeds that may be even less desirable. It is easier to pull out than tougher weeds, looks pretty when it is in bloom and is actually a medicinal herb besides. Definitely preferable to poisons.
2007-03-31 03:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Monsheri 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
read these first, before you use Borax on your lawn or dogs lawn
http://www.soapsgonebuy.com/Borax_p/d1002.htm
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/wihort/turf/CreepingCharlie.htm
Do NOT use BORAX... an over amount of boron in the soil will permanently damage the soil and nothing will grow there ever again. it's better to have the creeping charlie than have damaged your soil which if your dogs ingest it it will kill them too. I mix it with sugar on a paper plate to get rid of ants.
2007-03-31 03:36:51 · answer #3 · answered by T-pot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pulling it up is the WORST solution. Any root you leave behind creates more. Why are you so against herbicides? Do you realize that as soon as they are dry, the are COMPLETELY harmless? I have a dog, and spray trimec all the time. I just make sure he doesn't go out for about 1/2 hour.
2007-03-31 06:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by saaanen 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have found that if you buy a product call "20 mule team borak" and mix it 10 to 1 in a spray container. Spray only once in the year, it kills it pretty good.
2007-03-31 03:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by frenchfry1842 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the only way i know how to get rid of it is with poison. just pulling it up does no good.
2007-03-31 02:58:49 · answer #6 · answered by george 2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋