Switched from chemical weed killer to a torch in my Lakewood yard

I spent $40 on Ortho stuff last spring and it barely touched the dandelions in my back lawn. Bought a $25 propane torch from Home Depot and cleared the whole driveway crack weeds in about 10 minutes flat. Has anyone tried one on creeping charlie yet?

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thomasm411mo ago

$40 on Ortho and it barely touched the dandelions" haha yeah that sounds about right. Ortho is basically just expensive water for anything that's already dug in deep. I bet your lawn looked like a yellow polka dot party before you grabbed that torch. As for creeping charlie, man that stuff is the devil's ground cover. I tried flame on a patch last summer and it just laughed at me and came back stronger. You might end up needing a flamethrower for that stuff, not just a torch.

kim_sanchez191mo ago

Ten bucks says the Ortho company has a whole team of scientists getting paid to figure out how to make their stuff just weak enough that you buy it twice a year. It's like printer ink, they sell you a bottle that says "kills everything" but it's really just a suggestion. I swear half the stuff at the hardware store is designed to fail so you keep coming back for more, it's the whole system. For the creeping charlie, I'd look into a targeted weed killer that actually lists it on the label, not the generic "broadleaf" stuff. Otherwise you'll just be feeding it and making it stronger, like a supervillain origin story for your yard.

lucas638d ago

Honestly you're not wrong about that whole "engineered to fail" thing, it's like they know exactly how long it takes for a weed to bounce back. Tbh the printer ink comparison is perfect, they give you just enough hope to keep buying more bottles instead of one that actually works. Ngl the creeping charlie supervillain thing is real, I've seen patches survive a full apocalypse and come back greener than ever.