Unsecure chicken perches

[yannovitch]

Hello everyone,

 

after much thinking about it, i have decided to get rid of the balckberry bushes on my allotment: they take too much space, and give me too many scratches, when i can just get blackberry picking on a nice countryside walk!

 

but i wouldn't like to use any product of any sort... i like the organic approach...

 

has anyone ever done this before?

is there a good way to go about it? or is it just strenuous digging everything out?

 

Thank you very much for any advice!

[sjp]

hard graft is the only way I'm afraid with wild brambles treat it the same as couch grass every time a new bit grows dig it out took me 2 or 3 years to get rid of one out of my garden

[Couperwife]

yes, digging out is the only was ive got rid of them too.

 

quite painful, but very satisfying

[yannovitch]

thank you thank you!

 

all done now: chopped up all brambles, rooted out everything i possibly could!

and i even made my bon fire on top, so i killed any roots that was left in the soil!

[freddie]

Good on you, but... they will re appear I'm afraid, as if by magic. Just keep grubbing out the shoots, and eventually they'll give up. It took us a long while to finally clear them, and I was really sure , every year I'd finished them off!