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Do Brambles regrow from roots left in the ground?

chickychicky Posts: 10,410
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Doing battle with a bramble patch.  Do I have to get all the roots out to stop them regrowing, or is it sufficient to completely remove the crown where all the new shoots are emerging?
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My feeling is that the roots will regrow but I don't k ow for certain. I just seem to have bramble shoots suddenly popping up in odd places around this mature garden.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Even digging out the roots, mine always seem to pop back up again!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I know for certain ... yes they regrow ... what is more they seem to have increased vigour 😡  ... cut them hard back and leave them to sprout lush green leaves then apply SBK. 

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    or develop a repertoire of blackberry recipes
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Thanks folks .....more digging required 😅
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Watch your back! 😲

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





  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    Oh yes. They seem to grow from nothing. I spent days digging up hundreds of little shoots from a previous garden and it only seemed to encourage them. Even liberal applications of SBK seemed to have little effect. In the end we just moved away!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Look behind you @mander ... are you sure they’re not following you?  😉 

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





  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    They definitely are! We never had them at our permanent house but they have started to grow in the field behind the neighbor's fence. I've got to figure out a way to get into the field and start spraying them before they take over. Nice to find a patch out in the woods but horrible in the garden.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Strange.  I'd say that providing I've removed the below-ground pink shooty bits, the brambles in this garden haven't re-grown.  Yet...   :#
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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