Guy at the hardware store reccomended this chemical you have to use once a week for forever-not against chemicals just don’t like the once a year thing. Wife would like to re-sod the area just afraid it would creep back in from the neighbors yard which is Carlie Heaven. Can you put up a barier? I really don’t mind a little of the stuff but when its 80 % CC it makes me want to reach for the CC 
Thanks
This is what I used to get rid of charlie in my lawn. Took two years. I only sprinkled it on the plants and not broadcasting. I believe Dicamba is the main chemical against charlie?
Got this product at Home Depot.
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Yes need to attack them when flowering. If you neighbor has it and doesn’t do anything it’s gonna keep creepin.
They are tough little buggers.
Here are some non-chemical options that work fine. But yeah, the stuff just keeps creeping back in…..
-J.
Yep Dicamba is the stuff, get the highest concentration you can find, I got it beat back pretty good and sprayed through the fence into the neighbors yard, than last year I got weed man to come out { I got to busy to keep after it } they got it pretty good but it did take a call and a google review to have then come back out with a supervisor.
Tom in Blaine
24d works pretty good to kill that crap
Fertilome concentrate in a sprayer. Follow the directions, don’t spray until three days after cutting, and yes, more than one application will need to be done. I have had the best results using it in the fall. It’s expensive, but it works. I have halted the spread from the neighbors CC farm.
You’ll get plenty opinions but the pro’s all use T-Zone SE. Triclopyr is what kills ground ivy (aka Creeping Charlie) and wild violet. You can get it online, it’s not cheap, you can legally only use it on your own property and you NEED to follow directions carefully. It’s an esther based herbicide so it works in cooler temps but above 80-85, it will volatize and basically become like poison and will cause damage. Like I said, lots of opinions and improper weed ID is common…just saying for CC, Triclopyr is the fatal ingredient. Dicamba is a clover killer.
Trimec comcentrate. Loves Charlie.
X2 on Fertilome. The Home Depot and Menards stuff doesn’t work on Charlie in my experience.
Borax
Another Fertilome weed be gone vote. If you want an all out assault. Also use the sticker additive.
Between creeping Charlie and dandelions, some of you guys use some real serious chemicals, but complain about the stuff they put on the roads and what flows in to our water sheds, # chemical warfare, weeds must die
I like creeping charlies, I just pull them and they smell freshly minty.
I moved into a house in Elgin a few weeks back. Neighbor has nice lawn and “walks around with spray bottle of weed killer everyday”. He was really good friends with previous owner I guess…. my lawn is 50% CC. Neighbor gripes about it, I’m pretty green to this stuff… lawn is lush with CC and purple flowers… so I say to him…”devils advocate, what’s so bad, is it hard to walk on… as I remove my sandle and clearly feel soft CC…” he gives me this look like he going to punch me haha. I don’t know how much I’m willing to spend let alone spend time getting rid of, but I’m paying attention looking for best bang for your buck method for sure.
I sprayed a big jug of some stuff to appease neighbor, looks like it browned a bunch of it up, but I doubt there will be any lasting impact.
Other neighbor has it too so I kinda fail to see the point in continues chasing the CC.
Between creeping Charlie and dandelions, some of you guys use some real serious chemicals, but complain about the stuff they put on the roads and what flows in to our water sheds, # chemical warfare, weeds must die
I argue with myself on this. I apply the proper amount of weed and feed once a spring. When forecast has a couple warm dry days to burn the weeds. Followed by a hopeful slow light rain. After that I dig the random dandelions while I mow. Spot spray a few ounces on the random violets or ivys. Ironically 100% of my yard runs off into a 100 acre+ farm field. They show up 3xs a year with a semi flatbed with thousands of gallons of chemicals. Spray with no regard to wind or impending rain. Then Arial spray once or twice.
Proud owner of the worst yard on the block.
Wait, ur not my neighbor r u?! Lol
50% CC and some dandelions, would probably be fine with that, but when you look out and it is nothing but CC, then I have a problem, but no I don’t want to be that guy with a sprayer of chemicals out there every week.
50% CC and some dandelions, would probably be fine with that, but when you look out and it is nothing but CC, then I have a problem, but no I don’t want to be that guy with a sprayer of chemicals out there every week.
If it’s green who cares
Used as directed, and with an eye on the weather. No more than a trace should leave your property. With annual maintenance. I use I 20# bag in the spring. Then a few ounces here and there. Think the folks that get sold the multiple treatments by lawn companies get over done. And when your up in the rotation. Doesn’t matter if they are calling for 6″ of rain. I have a decent looking lawn with one well placed treatment a year, a little spot spray and digging. But I don’t want to mow 3 times a week like some neighbors.
I had a neighbor at my old house that had more creeping charlie than grass. A nice spray along the fence line (his side) with weed killer once in awhile kept the creeping charlie back.
For my yard, a broadleaf killer worked. Took a little time to kill it but it did work.
I did the same at my dad’s house.
I have a decent looking lawn with one well placed treatment a year, a little spot spray and digging. But I don’t want to mow 3 times a week like some neighbors.
This is how I roll too. Its not the best looking yard on the block, but some effort and labor will go a long ways, along with a timely treatment and/or spot treatment. The key is to not let it get out of hand.
I’d personally rather mow it regularly than water it too. If I’m watering (which I despise), that means we’re not getting enough rain.
As long as it is green I don’t care what species it is. I don’t want my dogs and son running around in chemical waste.
As long as it’s green who cares?
Me.
Between creeping Charlie and dandelions, some of you guys use some real serious chemicals, but complain about the stuff they put on the roads and what flows in to our water sheds, # chemical warfare, weeds must die
Agreed. Same people who mow ditches 30 miles out of town.
It takes multiple treatments. The damage is cumulative. My neighbor just mows it and yes, it quickly takes over portions of my yard as well. And I beat it back. And it comes to visit again. It doesn’t end.
If my neighbor intentionally sprayed chemicals into my yard we would be having an unpleasant conversation. You may not like the way it looks, but it’s natural and legal. My clover/creeper/dandelion patch is marvelous.
Never been much of a yard guy but I do take pride in my bumper crop of dandelions.
I hear in Arizona and similar climes, they plant this stuff in their yards on purpose. It will grow in that arid climate and sand, where grass will not. Crazy.
Yes need to attack them when flowering. If you neighbor has it and doesn’t do anything it’s gonna keep creepin.
They are tough little buggers.
Creeping Charlie/Jenny is a bane. I hate it, hate it, hate it. My neighbor does not do anything about his, most of his lawn is Creeping Charlie. His wife will not allow him to use herbicides, she believes it will harm their dogs. So I gave up on that side of my yard. The other side looks good. I will get gung ho about this again, but it will again be like flogging a dead horse. Spraying after it blooms will slow it, but will not kill or stop it. You need to apply the herbicide either early in the year before the leaves get really green and waxy, or later in the fall. Some believe, old timers mostly, that spraying a Borax/water mix on it a day before you apply the herbicide, speaking on already greened up, waxy leafed, flowering C.H., will disolve the wax on the leaves and allow the herbicide to enter the plant and do it’s thing. I have done this and had better results than not doing the Borax. Good luck.
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