Re: Creeping Charlie and vinegar and boron

On 6/21/01 7:49:55 AM Central Daylight Time diannthoma@hotmail.com (Diann 
Thoma)
wrote this to the perennials list --

<snip>  5 Tbs Boric Acid in a gallon of water will kill Creeping Charlie and 
not other plants. Charlie has a particular intolerance to high levels of 
boric acid.
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So what I did, Jean, was run right out and dump about a cup of 20 Mule Team 
Borax in a 5 gallon bucket and fill it about 2/3 to 3/4 full and poured it 
over an area of about 3 square ft. Charlie started turning brown in a few 
days. I was delighted and thot I found a 'Magic Potion!" So I ran right out 
and did it again in an adjacent area. Ultimately, I lost all the strawberries 
in both areas! Last fall, I was afraid I would have to replace the dirt in 
both areas but this spring the evil Charlie is back along with a variety of 
weeds. Sooooo.... I shall go back to using more conventional weed killers.

The moral of this story is --
Be Very Careful how strong you mix your solution and ladle it out sparingly. 

I potted up several pkgs. of bareroot strawberries and they were doing very 
well on my patio. But we've had so much rain they are dying (root rot) <
sniff, sniff & tears). And the weeds in all my flower beds are doing so well 
I am exhausted just thinking about getting rid of them.  :-(

But there is a lot of sun in the forecast for the next week and not a drop of 
rain altho cold which I don't mind as long as we have clear, sunny skies for 
a while!!
Best wishes in your war with Charlie and may you win all your battles with 
him!!  Barbara.

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