Brambles.

Hi everyone.

Now that I'm begining to take pride in my garden and am really enjoying it I'd like to tackle getting rid of a bramble. (I think that's what it is!)

It's in an area that I don't plan to do anything with until next year. I did clear it but it's beginning to grow back with a vengance. I've just sprayed it with a normal off the shelf liquid week killer but wanted to check that this'll be enough?

Any advice would be apreciated.

Ant.

 

Trouble with Brambles Anthony like vine weed, there is so much of it going on underground you cannot see. All that is in the ground needs to be dug out. I have one that is behind the sheds and I cannot get at it. I just keep cutting it back but I wish there was some way of killing it for good!

 

Ant. As you are leaving the area fallow you could do what I did prior to developing my new decked bbq area (See garden projects). It was overgrown with brambles, and yes they are a pig. Some months before starting I soaked it (twice) in sodium chlorate solution. It did the trick but don't plant anything useful for a few months.

 

Some Norfolk old boy recommended to me to strimm it then wait for new leaf growth and apply strong roundup. (4%). First dose applied. It will definitely need more than one. Good luck.

 

Thanks for the advice everyone. I won't be using the area for at least another year so I've got time on my side. I'll spend the summer regularly dosing with sodium clorate.

With a bit of luck this time next year i'll be showing off a newly planted bramble free bed. Fingers crossed! :D

Ant.

 

I think the only thing to do with bramble is to yank it out
Having said that, I have never tried weedkillers

 

Use sbk or roundup. better still pickaxe up the roots

 

Wish I'd thought of that. Instead of spending £8 on NaClO4 I could have spent £20+ on Roundup. Or paid a professional gardener to pick-axe the brambles. Paul you are obviously a good gardener but why do you want to spend other peoples money so much, when there are cheaper and just as effective ways?

 

I didnt say pay anyone to pickaxe them!

Roundup doesnt poison the soil unlike sodium clorate, also it sticks farr better and is safe with pets, if you spray it as oposed to a watering can you will use very little (spot spray rather than a blanket treatment).

Trust me, I dont always use/ advise the most expensive option but i do sudgest what I find works best doing the job on a daily basis.

The pickaxe is a nice cheap option!!!!!

 

hi all
my oh and i lived in eire for 10 years and we had a small holding ,when we moved in it was choked with weeds we didnt know where to start,we were advised to get a goat or the loan of one ,we bought 3 and turned them loose in designated areas,i dont know where the brambles went but i never saw another one and they never regrew

 

Moyra
If you can't get at the root then get the growing tips and dip them in a pot of Round up for a few hours
The more foliage you can wet the better the effect. If the bramble comes back after a month or two, do it again, and eventually it will weaken and give up

 

Try putting some Roundup in a polythene bag and stuff leaves into it and tie it to the plant. Its like Beechleaf said, but you can leave the leaves in contact for two weeks or more. Perhaps do it in several places.

The benefit of Glyphosphate, which is the active ingredient that Roundup and some other weedkillers contain, is that the poison is taken down into the roots, which in theory should kill it all. But you will need to attack it on as broad a front as you can, digging out as well.

 

Thanks once again everyone.

I'm not going to be able to go down the goat route (bummer!) as I live in suburbia. I think I'll give the Roundup in polythene bags a stab. That's the off the shelf liquid weed killer I'd mentioned in my original post. With the following days in Bristol making a turn for the worst covering the growing tips makes even more sense.

I'll let you all know the results.

Ant.