Removing brambles

ehlittleone

Ah thanks for all your replies.

Looks like I'll have to keep digging.

I like the stump killer/crystals idea, i'll keep my eye out for some of that.



Now I've just got to work out what to do about the animal that keeps digging my summer bulbs up!

Suzy_M

Aaaaaargh! Something else that really worked has been banned.

The active ingredients in these weed killers (ammonia sulphamate) was banned for use as a herbicide last year under those stupid EU regulations.

BUT it may still be available for other purposes - try a search for ammonia sulphamate / sulfamate.

ehlittleone

Suzy

I just looked up ammonia sufamate, Wikipedia says it is now being sold as a product by Dax called Root Out, I'll look out for it for sure.

Thanks for your help.

Suzy_M

ehlittleone wrote: »

Suzy

I just looked up ammonia sufamate, Wikipedia says it is now being sold as a product by Dax called Root Out, I'll look out for it for sure.

Thanks for your help.

Banned from sale as a weedkiller from last autumn - try looking for ammonium sulphate as a compost additive.

kazwookie

My son's garden was overgrown with brambles, an assortment of burning them, digging, and weed killing finally got rid of them, the odd one does grow back but he is straight out there it get it!!:rotfl:

Good luck.

katskorner

I had an allotment full of them and I got rid of them with combination of digging them out and spraying with roundup and then digging them out. I have far less now than I did when I got the plot three years ago. I am trying to reduce the amount of sprays I use so I pull them up mostly - but I have to admit to spraying docks as they just will not die!!!

tomsolomon

Dont give em an inch. We had real problem with these things last year, and they are very persistent. Ive been out hacking mine today, but I do seem to be winning the battle, slowly.
Incinerate what you take up, whatever you do dont leave them lying around, and most definately dont put them anywhere near the compost heap. If you cant burn them, bag them and take them to the local waste tip.
It helps if you can see where they are, make sure there's nowhere for them to hide, and just keep on top of them. Ive just found another thorn, ouch.....

alisonhayward

We were lucky and got an allotment in July, counds great, however, it is reclaimed land, nothing has been grown on it for years and it is covered in brambles.

We started trying to clear it and have been digging out all the weeds and brambles, some with roots 4 foot deep. This is a very time consuming job and we don't seem to be getting anywhere. Does anyone know how we can get rid of the brambles in a quicker manner?

We have just been away for 3 weeks and before we went I planted the onion sets and garlic in the 2 beds we have managed to dig, yet on our return, the beds are starting to go grass again, HELP!!

OddjobKIA

Brambles are going to be the bain of your life Im afaraid they get everywhere and seem imppossible to remove..However..

Try buy tiling the soil as you have done and then lay some MYPEX down sart all your veg of in pots at home and when big enough transfer to plot cut slit in mypex and plant..

RAS

Hi

There are two things here

Brambles

This is the one time when slash and burn is a goo idea, if you can light fires - choose a windless day or one when the wind is blowing away from any houses.

Cut them back to the ground and burn the debris, if possible on top of the largest clump of brambles.

If you then lift the central stool and cut the roots, it should not re-sprout. You do not need to lift the whle root, just the central stool which has the buds for the next years canes. Bonfire number two.

The grass is more difficult.

if you have a long abandoned plot, you may have couch grass, which is a bit o a night mare. You can cover with plastic or carpet and then grwo through it for a year and it will reduce the amount of couch grass, but when you dig it over, you need to remove every last little piece, leave it and then dig over again to find the bits you missed last time.

One the other hand, you may just have a lot of weed seeds which have responded to your recent cultivation by sprouting. If so, you can hoe or hand weed them out.