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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thomasm413d 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_sanchez193d 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.