Brambles... ******* lots of it... best way to get rid?

Fenris said:
Tactical Nuclear Strike.
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It's the only way to be sure :p

Back on topic - I've used Diesel before to kill weeds which were growing through the stonechips I'd layed. Not too sure on the cost involved considering the area you've got to cover, and it did smell a did. Done the job nicely though :)
 
Fire. Seriously. When we cleared our (my parents) back garden, we hired a large wheeled weed burner and scorched the upturned soil, then put our lawn on top. Never had problems with weeds, and the lawn is ripe.
 
I've jsut gug over my garden and covered it in Glycosulphate based weed killer. Looks like a ploughed field right now.

My folks were unlucky enough to get knotweed, they dug up the whole garden and planted spuds for a year. With spuds you are constantly digging the garden over so you can keep removing the weed as you go.
 
Glyphosate AKA Roundup may kill it all off, but it takes a few weeks to get into the system and you need the plant to be actively growing to get it absorbed. So you have to let the brambles sprout up, wait for a good fine dry weather (not windy!) then spray the leaves. Leave it a few days and look to see if the leaves start to turn yellow and the plant die. Repeat as necessary till it is all dead. It'll take a few weeks.

What do you want to do with the land afterwards? You could also hire a mini digger and rip the roots out. A rotovator wouldn't get through anything woody like old roots.
 
DoubleCheese said:
Glyphosate AKA Roundup may kill it all off, but it takes a few weeks to get into the system and you need the plant to be actively growing to get it absorbed. So you have to let the brambles sprout up, wait for a good fine dry weather (not windy!) then spray the leaves. Leave it a few days and look to see if the leaves start to turn yellow and the plant die. Repeat as necessary till it is all dead. It'll take a few weeks.
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I do the brambles on my alotment with Roundup. I did some on Sunday and you could see the scorching to the leaves after an hour or so. I'd imagine with some commercial glyphosate it'd be more effective. DoubleCheese is right though, you have to wait for them to be actively growing and you almost certaibly will need 2 or 3 applications.
 
What about that stuff you put on fences. Um. Creosote? Don't you use that for killing trees? although thinking about it, i guess just pouring it all over the land would just, you know, poison everythign else...
 
If you're not planning on planting anything there then I would get some sodium chlorate weedkiller, it will kill everything but will persist in the soil for anything from 6 months to 5 years.

It's pretty nasty stuff, need to keep animals away when you use it (and for a while after), and also have to watch that you don't "pick" any up on your shoes and walk it onto grass etc.
 
[TW]Fox;14163538 said:
Put a bungalow on it, then sell it.
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Heh, no way :p That is the main reason we bought the land in the first place, because the owner wanted to start building on it and we didn't want anyone living at the bottom of our garden :p

DoubleCheese said:
What do you want to do with the land afterwards? You could also hire a mini digger and rip the roots out. A rotovator wouldn't get through anything woody like old roots.
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At first we just want to extend our garden so initially it'll be grass, and we're gonna scrap that wooden thing as it's just in the way really. But like I said earlier, eventually we'll probably want to put a tennis court, or if we're feeling devilish, a swimming pool + pool house + bbq area etc :)

If we do end up with building a swimming pool then I guess it's a non-issue, but for now a grass lawn would be nice, so this glyphosate suggestion seems the most viable option. I'm going to follow the advice and wait till it starts growing a bit more. There's no rush to get rid of the brambles roots really, so it taking a few weeks is fine.

We did hire a few guys who brought their own digger to clear up and rip out all the brambles before, but it kind of tore the tops of the brambles off and left some of the roots underneath alive.

With any luck the brambles will remain patchy and so hopefully the chemical treatment will do the trick fairly easily :)
 
Gah!
Brambles have been the bane of my life in my garden, and now they are under control, the problem is starting to be bindweed :(

Went out on Monday evening and sprayed everything again with roundup.

People suggesting a rotorvator dont understand brambles. Our garden (before we started working on it) was FULL of brambles, 6 foot high, everywhere. This was originally caused by someone continually trying to get rid of a small ammount of brambles with a rotorvator. All that did, was chop the stems and roots into many small pieces, which then themselves rooted and started to grow.

We have now gotten on top of the problem with a mixture of Roundup in a big pressure-sprayer thing, and digging up (as low down as posssible) any bits that rear their heads above the surface.

You might have to resort to digging them up, it certainly the most effective way. Spraying rarely kills the entire thing down to the roots.
 
nst68 said:
If you're not planning on planting anything there then I would get some sodium chlorate weedkiller, it will kill everything but will persist in the soil for anything from 6 months to 5 years.

It's pretty nasty stuff, need to keep animals away when you use it (and for a while after), and also have to watch that you don't "pick" any up on your shoes and walk it onto grass etc.
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Is this a total herbicide - I have a persistent weed growth coming from the length of fence by a path and I want it gone - permanently
 
Can't help with the brambles...but this might be nice when your done

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