Getting rid of creeping charlie in strawberry patch

Jennrs

I have a strawberry patch that was taken over by creeping charlie last summer. I got lazy and neglected my weeding duties, and that creeping charlie is wicked bad stuff!

We're getting our lawn sprayed this spring (much to my dismay, I hate chemicals) to kill the creeping charlie in the rest of our yard, but I don't want to spray near the strawberries. I plan on removing as much of it as I can then building a trench and lining the area where the strawberries are. How do I keep the creeping charlie from coming back in that area? Do I cover the strawberries and spray? The strawberries are well established so I don't know if it would be possible to move them. TIA!

dirtyred

All I do is mulch and pull, pull, pull.  I don't use any type of chemical around my edible plants.

alliapistor

I'm not sure how it would affect your strawberry runners, but I would try newspaper. If you can fit newspaper on the ground between the plants, then put the mulch on top of that. It gradually breaks down and improves the soil, but it reduces weeds in the meantime. This is what I do around my tomatoes and it seems to work. I do a layer of newspaper, layer of mulch, layer of newspaper, layer of mulch.

another KT

You can move established strawberries.

Jennrs

Thanks for the input. Now that I know we can move them, I think that's the route we'll go. :-)