How We Keep Creeping Charlie Under Control Organically In Our Garden
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Creeping charlie is an invasive ivy in the mint family. It is a ground cover and a very invasive one at that. In this episode I will show you how I keep it under control and how I make sure it doesn't spread into my garden.
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It gets on my nerves too. I’m glad I found this video. In spring, it grows so fast in my garden and tries to take over my flower beds and raised beds. I will try this method because I’ve been weed wacking it and it’s so annoying.
I posted about this on a farming page, not knowing the name of this SUPER Invasive plant. I learned it’s name and the fact that caged rabbits seem to enjoy it! So do my chickens! I let my 7 hens into my spent garden last September-October. They took out 98% of the plants, roots and all. So this year, while I do have to monitor this weekly and harvest all vines I see, it’s manageable, where as last year it consumed my garden and yard!!! Yay for backyard chickens!!!!.... not to mention all the fertilizer they left behind😁
That's great rabbits like it. My free range chickens ignore it totally, as do my goats.
Wild rabbits ignore as did my chickypoos
Yes! Creeping Charlie is completely edible! We use it often in our cooking because it is everywhere. I keep it away from my garden beds but other then that I let it go wild. If you are someone who likes to brew your own beer, Creeping Charlie use to be used before hops was common or popular. It work as both your bitter and helps to make your beer more clear.
Ashley Jennings interesting! Thank you!
Can also be used in a herbal tea, or in salads. It also has medicinal purposes. It has been used for centuries as a treatment for colds, flu and bronchitis. I like identifying weeds first many are edible, medicinal and beneficial to gardens.
Tony Hyden I have a weed book. Whenever I find something new I always look it up, I'll let certain things grow too...
Like where I live, city fill does contain wild strawberries, wild carrots, and other interesting odds and ends hahaha
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Creeping Charlie is the name of my existence! It has taken over my asparagus and is trying to get in my entire vegetable garden. It is, however, edible and medicinal as well as a great nectar source for bees and other beneficials. It's always a balancing act!
I finally gave into the creeping Charlie; it has taken over my backyard and I am now at peace with it.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
This year is bad !
The best solution is to harvest and eat it. If I find it growing outside of my actual garden beds, I tend to leave it alone, because it's beneficial as you said. It begins to flower very early in spring, producing mats of purple flowers that the pollinators love. I've learned to appreciate it and the purple deadnettle (also edible) that constantly spring up everywhere.
Really? I have lived in the same house since the eighties and this year the creeping Charlie totally took over the yard. Still going strong at Thanksgiving. Came here looking for how to GET RID OF IT.
Thank you. This video couldn't have come at a better time, as this is exactly the problem I have been dealing with lately and since last fall.
It is not only edible but serves as a medicine with lungs problems and stomach ache. Commonly used as a food spice.
You may fight the battle, but mother nature...she always wins. 😉
I throw such weeds in an empty terracotta pot. After a week in the sun, as long as it hasn't rained a lot, anything dies in there. The terracotta wicks away water and heats up in the summer, the thing is like a dehydrator nothing survives it unless it's a bulb.
I like this idea. I have been laying weeds on a concrete path, but a pot would be nice.
I live in Farmington and Creeping Charley is everywhere! Normally I really like your videos but I was disappointed in this one. I have a better solution. First, get gasoline and torch your yard. If it is in your neighbor’s yard torch his yard too… in fact, just torch the entire neighborhood to make sure you got it good. Your neighbors will thank you for it later. Then add about 6” of salt over the entire soil of the subdivision. Now that those cumbersome houses and garages are out of the way you can use a spreader to make quick time of the chore! There, I fixed it… no more Creeping Charley!!!
LOL
just celebrated 10 years at our ‘new’ house and noticing the first infestations of charlie in the back yard, so hopped on here to gain some knowledge against this formidable foe .. thanks so much for the laugh, I feel as though your solution might be the only one that works 😂
@Theseus Titan: Great idea. Both neighbors on either side had an infestation of crappy charlie..so naturally my organic pretty lawn got it too. So I covered it for the fall and winter months, pulled up all the old debris in the summer and reseeded. The neighbors have done nothing, nothing, nothing to their lawns and now,. 3 years later, they have weed free grass and mine is an absolute, complete mess.
I like your style!
@@sleepinglioness5754 You‘re a good neighbor!
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historically, it was used instead of hops in beer making. I have a lot of it to, been meaning to try using it to make beer. :)
Thanks for that, Luke. I also have invasion problems with creeping charlie. However, it is edible and has lots of vitamin C, plus it has medicinal qualities and is good for detox, especially of heavy metals.
I keep creeping Charlie in check with a shotgun...... oh wait! Wrong Charlie.👍👍👍👍👍
LOL!
I've been fighting this weed for years. We even moved (not because of creeping charlie) and started a new garden and it's at the new place as well.
If you want to get rid of it in lawn use this method , this really does work! 1.Cut the area with the CCharlie. Spray a solution of Borax ( 20 mile team ) at a ratio of 5 oz to 1 gal of water. Spray 1-2 ft away from lawn. Wait 1 hr. Then spray with a weed killer which has 2,4D and Dicamba in it. In two or three weeks it's gone!!! Spot spray with the Borax solution and you should be good. I really hate to use weed killer but it's the only way!
Borax is a bad idea because it does not break down in the environment and will get into ground water. also it kills other plants as well.
In order to kill the foliage, all you have to do is spray vinegar on it. I use this on sidewalk weeds when the sun is shining to enhance the drying effect. The leaves shrivel and turn brown.
Tony, That is quite the uninformed paintbrush statement you made there. you mean a herbicide hurts plants? it's actually more of a concern due to contact with skin.
No Borax in fact does not break down in the environment weed killers for the most part do. Since Borax does not break down, reapplying it to kill more weeds and so on can cause excessive amounts which could leech into water sources and kill other plants as well. It is something I have looked up in the past, so far from uninformed.
Thanks for the education! I didn’t realize it was part of the mint family but I’ve definitely had my frustration with this weed!
You weeds are so small and cute. In the Pacific Northwest we have salal. Their roots are huge and spread underground many many feet away when they surface they can push through landscape cloth with several inches of gravel on top and by the time they surface it is to late. The only way to get rid of these is to continue to turn the soil in the infected area and increase the Ph.
I’ve been battling creeping charlie for years! The best way to get rid of it has been pulling it up. I try not to use poisons if at all possible.
Samehere.
I let it grow around my flower beds, because it has those nice purple flowers, and it gives an 'English Garden" look. I restrict it to the edges...Its pretty easy to pull up, I don't find it very tenacious. Smells nice when cut too.
Creeping Charlie has some excellent Medicinal uses. You should really look into it and maybe, start drying it for tea.
*Oh my gosh, that stuff drives me nuts!!*
Eat it. It is insanely edible apparently
@@AmazingAutist Stuff it. Apparently it works wonders as stuffing inside dolls or small pillows.
This year I decided to experiment with green mulch and while it does protect the soil from drying out, it also smothers other low growing plants. I also have other wild ground cover plants that I let grow as green mulch and I had to pull them out because they were smothering what I had planted. Next year I plan to keep these wild plants from causing a problem by regular weeding, after all, I find weeding cathartic and the weeds add to my compost.
Save yourself some work and spread more wood chips closer to the fence.
Sure, I weed my cc but it just isnt enough, especially when it is a dry summer but I am winning the battle after letting up for a year. So when you use herbicide, wait until after the first frost. That is when the Charlie starts sucking in energy for the winter. Much more effective than in the spring.
It’s a medicinal forage, extremely nutritious for you and makes a great tea. Eat raw in salads. It’s one of our pollinators firsts foods!
My "creeping charlie" here, south of Houston, is Bermuda grass. I fight it, along with several other invasives, constantly. The stuff is like something out of a science fiction lab.
Sarah Luker I've found that native Horseweed erradicates Bermuda grass, but yet you'll have Horseweed everywhere.
TheHollowBodiesBand, I'll have to look that one up. I've not heard of Horseweed. Interesting. Thanks
Sarah Luker - lol My nemesis, here in Minneapolis, is Virginia Creeper. I call it Obi Wan Kenobi because it says, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!"
Bermuda is the worst! Invasive as all get out.
just a tip I found recently for a natural weed killer you can spray on for areas where it's got into soil. mix Epsom salts, vinegar and dawn dish soap, works a treat
81truthbetold Ever hear of the Greek story named the City of Troy?
Fastestinthewest yes I have, what a funny question lol why?
81truthbetold Remember how the ground was treated? Teagards...
But does it work on Creeping Charlie on a lawn?
Your thinking of table salt aka sodium chloride, epsom salts are magnesium sulfate. Adding epsom salt is actually beneficial to the soil
thanks for the tip. I do not throw mine way but burn it and then I use the ashes in my garden as fertilizer after 2 or more times I burn it so I know the creepy charie is dead to a crisp
I love to watch how positive your videos are and the helpful tips. I feel stressed after work and I try to unwind by watching. I love your channel. Thank you.
Creeping charlie really is a pain, thanks for the video!
Creeping Charlie IS edible as a mint like herb and raw as greens IF the leaves are young. So it's best to harvest it as one of the first things in the spring, along with chickweed and dandelion greens.
Until it roots INTO the wood chips. Not between them. Into the wood itself. Just insane. And if it’s already out of control, and you have a big yard, you’re screwed.
I was given dark, rich soil which I used to top off ALL of my beautiful organic raised vegetable beds. In a week I noticed a weed I'd never seen on our property. In 2 weeks it was everywhere in the beds! So sad!! I researched and I have Creeping Charlie in all my beds! My plan, once the snow melts, is to cover the boxes in heavy ground cover fabric which is how I rid the garden of mint many years ago. Wish me luck!
I made a small patio in my cottage garden and charlie is creeping into my pebbles too!
Oh, Charlie's is very medicinal, you can eat it too
I am new to your channel. I have learned so much from you. I really enjoy your videos. Great job.
CReeping charlie LOVESSS my straberry plants. I think they are benifitals for each other i think it keeps the fbad fungi down,and helps to mulch the soil. i dont think it needs much nutrients so i dont really notice my plants beeing to affected by it. It does rob the light from my other plants and is why i pull as much as i can when it gets in my beds
ps: any organic suggestions for lawns?
I’ve sprayed the weeds in my driveway w/ an orchard sprayer filled w/ a salt water solution I’ve made from water softener salt crystals. It doesn’t kill all the weeds; but, some weeds such as Creeping Charlie turned brown w/in a few days. It doesn’t completely kill the roots, so I does come back a few weeks later; but even so I was pleasantly surprised by the results.
When you have to deal with lots of bind weed. Creeping Charlie is a tame ornamental in comparison. I kind of like it on the borders and in the grass. Nice leaves and flowers. Easy enough to pull out and it doesn't strangle the vegetables.
Where I am in Canada it supplies the earliest flowers and the bees love it...
Some contractors brought that in on their equipment, and it took over our yard. It's trying to do the same to our garden. I read that it used to be used to flavor beer. Not saying that it's edible though. Years ago we tried killing a small patch of it in the corner of our yard with round-up. The grass and other weeds died, but the ground ivy thrived.
Thank you for your wonderful info. I finally know how to keep my creeping charlie in control. Love all of your videos!
Wow, I thought Creeping Charlie was some weird neighbor, glad its just a plant LOL
CRABGRASS is the bane of MY existence!
Creeping Charlie and his friend Creeping Jenny like to team up in my flower bed (crept in from the neighbour). I do the same thing pull and mulch. I’ve greatly reduced their hold on the bed in two years. My neighbour works on it from her side as well.
Those are pretty flowers 😊 I have not seen a creeping Charlie here in Vegas.
Thank you it came in heavy after year 2 of sheet mulching. Would consider that again but I've got too many plants I'm hoping will come back up. Attacking Creeping Charlie tomorrow.
I pull and dry out my creeping charlie on our cement driveway or in a bucket. When it is 100% dry and dead I add it to our compost pile. I NEVER put any plant material in the trash. Doing so creates methane gas which is one of the most powerful greenhouse gasses.
Can you build a low wall on your lot line to keep the Creeping Charlie out of your yard? If it won't climb, that could put an end to it creeping into your spaces?
Bermuda grass is the bane of my garden existence 😫 That stuff is super hard to pull out, even in mulch, tho it is a tad bit easier. It spreads tough roots deep beneath 😩
ArmindaHeart here in Michigan we have Quack grass...much worse than Charlie imo
Me too.
Thanks for making this video. I HATE Creeping Charlie. Our neighbor doesn't do anything to keep hers in check so it invades my garden. I have bad dirt in most of the garden but am working hard to get mulch down to smother out the weeds and to build the soil. Wish me luck !
Creeping Charley?? Yeah,........I recommend a flame thrower and an exorcist.
Brew City Gardener hahahahaha!! Thanks for the chuckle. So hilarious 😂🤣🍻🤘
I agree with your description. It has driven me to needing an exorcist.
Absolutely! It's horrendously invasive!
unfortunately I have never had any problems with creeping Charlie but I have had problems with other kinds of invasive ground cover
Along with the wood chip barrier I pour three or four kettles of boiling water on the stuff each week. That kills it and ALL the roots.
Great Video! I battle creeping Charlie all the time, Thanks too my Neighbors.
I like the flower of this planted.
I'm dealing with field horsetail ..very invasive and 1meter deep roots
I cut it regularly if in my boxes to make it feebles and use tarps on roads to block sunlight
Has anyone tried pouring boiling water on weeds to kill them? Did it work for you?
I have not tried this, but my guess is that boiling water would only wilt the leaves and the roots would continue to grow and spread. I am interested to see if that would work though!
I had it bad by the garage in Riley . It grew crazy under trees. Shade and moister.
Thanks Luke 💕✌️🌱
About how many yards of wood chips did it take you guys to get the 3-4” later around all your garden boxes? Thank you for the videos!
I was kind of hoping for some magical "cure" for this pestilence...It got in my flower beds and my hops earlier this year when I was sick so now I wait and weed when I see it...funny around here it partners with wild morning glory, another very invasive weed...thanks for showing your solutions.
It is a ritual with me to clean up every 3-4 months to pull cc away from the mulched edges.
It gets inches thick in the mulch.
It just loves the mulch.
This year I will attack it with vinegar and dish solution spray to try to burn it back .
Have you tried this?
Creeping Charlie and Mugwort are horrible in my gardens. I just keep pulling, and pulling, and pulling....
Glad I'm not the only one that has a problem with these persistent weeds.
My compost pile is in my chicken run where they eat, shred and break everything down before I put it on the garden. Do you think it's okay in that case?
Here's a thought: put landscape cloth on top of the mulch and see if it keeps kills it off. Then give your neighbor a roll of cloth.
Nothing really gets rid of Creeping Charlie for good except renovation. You can deter it. You can cover it. You can't remove it.
Seen it take over a 1/3rd of a country club golf course once.
I'm using a weed whacker against my raised bed to keep it out. I mow it if it's wide enough to get the mower through to keep it down a little. It's not super hard to get it out of the garden because it's loose soil also and my garden is mulched with leaves and grass. My strawberry bed is another story. That's just hopeless even with the wood chips I have. I don't think I've ever seen a plant this invasive. I suppose at some point it will take over the entire yard.
Ok, but what do you do when it is taking over your lawn?
I use vinegar and water spray just a little
Looks like a nice plant aesthetically, but, if it serves no real purpose, then yes, it has to go... :)
As for ivy, ugh, I need to go play tug o' war with that stuff in the garden every year, damned stuff keeps trying to take over!! :S
if this is the same stuff Plants for the Future says it's medicinal and edible. www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Glechoma+hederacea
I am always fighting sometype of wild morning glory. I could torch the ground and it comes up just fine. Its roots go really deep and it climbs everything.
Great vid Luke. I feel so defeated by creeping charlie, that also comes in at my fence line. I may just add more mulch at the fence line to help it does come out much easier than when its rooted in my clay soil. At least it's somewhat attractive for such a nasty weed.
Have the same issue with Morning Glory.
Creeping Charlie was used to make "small beers."
This is good to know. Can you a video about thistle? Please?
I'm really struggling with creeping charlie in the veggie patch. My only consolation is that bees seem crazy about the purple flowers; it's a good food source early in the season.
Why not woodchip right at the fence to give seperation from neighbors yard? Asking because this is my plan to form a barrier.
2 4 D herbicide that's what i am using that weed killed my front yard lawn and trying to kill my flowers and i have been poling it for 5 years and its in my garden this year i have arthritis so bad i cant pull it anymore
They are edible!!
I recently bought a house that has nothing but creeping charlie as the backyard? Would pulling it+rototilling+sod or reseeding kill it without herbicides?
That Charles sure is persistent, pretty and good smelling but not ideal for a well kept garden. I've got the Charlie but my major curse is crab grass coming up from under the chips and blowing in as seed.
Bermuda grass is my nemesis.
I don't have this weed but if I see it ill know what to do. I do have wild strawberries and I'm constantly pulling that up!
I have read that if the soil is less acidic Creeping Charlie wont be a problem. I do put down lime every year, but that doesn’t seem to be the solution.
I have invasive tree issues. I just cant catch up to that species. I keep pulling them out as soon as I see them but I have no idea how to stop it either.
MJHinCA , hello MJHinCA, what tree issues are you having?
Cheers🦋
I'm wrestling with what to do about creeping charlie right now. What did you do initially in your yard? If I cardboard over it and put down a raised bed, is it going to come through?
I've just been putting the weeds in a 5 gallon bucket and leaving them out in the sun until they dry out. Anyone know if it drops seeds or should this be safe to use as mulch for a pine tree?
James carter sounds safe.
Depends which weed I think
Heck, if you add water into the pail, toss a lid on it, stir it once a week, you will have weed tea in 2-3 weeks. I've diluted the weed tea and poured it onto my plants and they love it.
If you toss the weed tea onto some biochar and voila, you have charged biochar.
I wondered what that stuff was called. It's never ending.
granted it's a pest, but it has one bright side, at least on my place. I notice when pulling it that the roots are teeming with worms. They seem to love it.
But bees 🐝 love creeping charley, Luke. Lol
He did say it has its benefits. He's just pulling it so that it doesn't take over his crops.
I'm sure he has more than enough (polin producing) plants to keep the bees happy. No one needs Creeping Charlie.
What if u boil it for a little bit, then could u stick it in the compost??
Hi Luke, is this the same as Creeping Myrtle? Thanks!
Don't toss it. Put it in a clear plastic bag and solarize it for a few days, then you can put it into the compost pile. Burying plant matter in a dump is a waste and something that just doesn't need to be there. Our dumps are big enough already.
Another good video Luke
I bet you can rot the pulling in water to kill them. I use that technique on ivy and burdock. Seems to do the trick, though it takes a week and is stinky.
You said do not put creeping Charley in the compost box what else to not put in the compost box.
What is used to control dollar weed?