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Unknown Plant (Weed)?
RedGooseberry
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Can anyone identify the attached please? It grows at ground level and can reach several feet long quite quickly. The spines are needle sharp. Is there a way to kill it off without harming other plants?
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some sort of bramble.
In the sticks near Peterborough
A sharp spade through the roots and pull it out. Wear thick bramble proof gloves. They fight back. I have the scratches to prove it. When I went on holiday, in a sleeveless shirt, I looked like I had been self harming.
I agree. Get it out now whilst it is still quite weak as everywhere it touches the ground it will root. I hope yours is not growing through a holly hedge where I find it invading from next door - your self-harming Fidget is probably similar to mine from the combinatiion of holly and bramble. Why do we put ourselves through this?
Reminds me of my brother's garden. In the summer I volunteered to tidy it up, it's a rented house and previous tenant had let it run riot.
i actually found brambles running through 3 plants - Mahonia, Pyracantha and Holly ! Whoever planted these must have feared their neighbours. My arms were cut to ribbons ( metaphorically speaking ??).
Last edited: 01 November 2017 18:19:11