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Identify this Weed and best way of removing it?

PillpusherPillpusher Posts: 9
edited July 2019 in Problem solving
hello

Please can any one help me identify this weed and the best way if removing it?
It grows in the garden through the bushes and roots are quite deep and I am cutting it back and this a example of it branches 
I attached pictures of the garden and has been neglected but would like bring it back to old glory it's a big space and keeping on top of it is hard any ideas would help
There is decent plants hidden away🤔





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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    One of the rubus family ... blackberry etc. but we need to see the leaves and a pic of the whole plant. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PillpusherPillpusher Posts: 9
    edited July 2019
    Thank you I will take a picture of whole plant.
    I have not seen any berries has such just branches with these spikes 
    Also got marestail but slowly getting top of it by weeding
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    You have a lovely garden there. Although you feel it looks neglected I've seen much worse! And with some TLC you will make it very pretty. Just take one step at a time and don't get disheartened  :)
  • PillpusherPillpusher Posts: 9
    Great think palm is getting out of control may need pruning but last had it done it died i think I did to early in the year so the frost got to it.
    Slowly getting there but soil is very damp so looking for plants that like wet soil drainage is poor I feel.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good luck with the marestail ... you won’t beat it but if you keep in and on and don’t let up you will
    be able to keep it under control. 

    Blackberry fruits on the previous year’s growth. They send out long whippy growths that riot wherever they touch the ground. 

    I beat them by cutting hard back ... digging out the stumps and then treating any fresh regrowth in the spring with SBK brushwood killer according to the directions on the pack. You need to leave them a few weeks for the SBK to pass back to the roots. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    By the way ... get some stout ‘hedging gloves’ from an agricultural supplier. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PillpusherPillpusher Posts: 9
    Will do been a great help glad I joined
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Whoops! ‘Root’ not ‘riot’ ... but the result is pretty much the same 🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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