Creeping Veronica

[Elite LawnCare]

I read somewheres that this likes poor soil. How do we get rid of this or any other variety of creeping "weeds". Would the same method still be used as far as balancing the soil optimum for turf along with overseeding and out competing?

[Elite LawnCare]

#11 07-07-2008, 01:17 PM
Marcos
LawnSite Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Cincinnati OH
Posts: 2,378

The best measure of control against any weed....including "creeping charlie" (a.k.a. ground ivy )

....is having a healthy stand of turf to crowd it out, and thus prevent it, in the first place.

[Smallaxe]

Established weeds may have to be pulled or sprayed or something. Clients are not going to wait for the grass to start outcompeting the current weeds.
But yeah, pull a weed and drop some seed.

[Prolawnservice]

Veronica can be tough, usually means your base saturation's are off, take a soil test, chances are you will need to add more calcium, hi cal lime or gypsum, and mow higher so the grass shades it out and starves it of light, like 3 1/2 to 4" and if you need to cut it shorter once get some seed from the desired grass down.

[RigglePLC]

Veronica is very tough. Very difficult to hand pull. Most weed killers don't work. (Drive is fairly effective). Tolerates shade. Veronica is a winter annual. Sprouts in the fall, survives the winter, blooms in spring, seeds and dies when temp hits about 85. So spray in late fall.
Or...use compost tea plus some kind of organic stuff. Just tell the cutomer organic products work slow (probably true) and by the fourth of July--it will be gone.