Will hoey

[SAB]

Any idea on how to kill the brambles that are crawling into our garden from a neighbouring field and looking like they will swallow up our house? We look like something from sleeping beauty! Organic methods greatly prefered.

[moochoo]

When we arrived in our house we were over run with brambles and we tried everything to get rid of them (wanting to be as organic as poosible) and I'm afraid the most successful method is a bramble/ tree killer which is far from organic but does work.

Good luck they're very persistant.

[SAB]

Thanks for this - I suspected as much. My OH is at the point he says its chemicals or arson!

[Karen & co.]

I tend to put on big gloves and pull them out they can root again from bits of bramble in contact with the ground too

 

Karen x

[Matthew]

perm one from

 

flamethrower

nuclear device

lots of hard work

 

 

Hope this helps

 

[chickencam]

That's why I am dying to see how HFW's Bristol waste ground gardeners get on with their not very raised beds with brambles underneath

 

We have finally resorted to chemicals against the bindweed that has invaded our allotment from the school boundary

[Milly]

Every so often we get bindweed growing into the house - between the plasterboard and the wall. It can reach the first floor with no light at all and come through a gap in the skirting board. If you find a way of getting rid of it, I would like to know. Although I would like to be organic, we have resorted to weedkiller (systemic), but it doesn't seem to work.

 

And as for brambles - Sleeping Beauty has already crossed my mind!

 

Milly

[fluffymuppet]

When we moved into this house we found a bramble thicket 6 feet deep at the bottom of the garden - in fact it was the only thing keeping our garden separate from the alley at the end! Since I am organic we went with the hard work option.

 

During the spring and the autumn you need to keep an eye out for bramble stems that are trying to root themselves. They're easy enough to pull up when they're young. They don't do that so much during the summer.

 

Whenever I had the energy I just cut back the stems, and then attempted to dig up the roots. They are persistent, but they're not unkillable. It has taken several years, but they're now just a small problem - and my greenhouse sits in 6 feet of reclaimed garden!

[DominicJ]

Like Blackberry?

Mine died pretty easily.

 

When I bought my house the back garden was an absolutle mess, 70'x20' of 4 foot high weeds, over grown hedge of some kind and a mass of brambles that had colonised one side from next door.

 

Bought a hedge trimmer,

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9375123&fh_view_size=6&fh_sort_order=1&fh_sort_by=_price_rrp_min&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=hedge+trimmer&fh_eds=ß&fh_refview=search&ts=1212657719790&isSearch=true

, a bit like that and had at them.

I've seen some growth from the bits I missed, I'm probably going to transplant them and use them to make my rear fence a little more formidable, it back onto some waste ground.

[Lewis]

nuclear device

[SAB]

I have already been able to reclaim a fair bit of garden from the brambles and during school holidays will be doing some of the harder bits - those tht are rooted halfway down a banking, behind some trees. No idea how I am going to get those, I have visions of me with a rope tied round my waist anchoring myself to a tree and abseiling down the banking with a blowtorch (which would then leave me dangling above a barbed wire fence)!

[theherd123]

Very Indianna Jones like!