I understand your frustration, but I agree with Dove's comment above. If you kill an area of the problem 'weeds' it'll be covered again in no time with more brambles and weeds. I think you just need to accept it as it is. At least there will be lots of creatures and bugs living in the wilderness that will keep your plants clear of aphids and the like and you should get some free blackberries
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I have to say they don't seem to be doing much about the aphids this year, alas. And I can't get the free blackberries because the field is not accessible.
It just annoys me because the shrubs on the other side of the fence are out of control and blocking a lot of the light in my garden, the roots are pushing up the patio slabs, and I can't get to that side of the fence to maintain it.
I can appreciate your difficulty @Mander. Could you dismantle one panel of your fence temporarily or even make a gate for access? I don't think anyone would object to you cutting back overhanging shrubs/brambles etc so near to your boundary.
Alas it's a very stout metal fence that runs continuously along the whole row of houses that back onto the field. I did think about cutting it to make a secret door into the field but then realised it's all one fence. I keep toying with the idea of making a ladder over the fence but I'm not sure I'll have anywhere to put it on the other side.
That's a bit of a b....r @Mander. Another bright idea gone west! Actually I had another, if there's no access to the field and the Council won't maintain it, could you and the neighbours get together to take it over as a community asset?
I have considered that, and hence why I was thinking about effectively doing some guerilla gardening of a sort and trying to get rid of the brambles and overgrown shrubs. Ideally it would be more of a wildflower meadow but at the moment the only thing really growing there is cow parsley and dandelions.
Bees and hoverflies in particular love the umbellifer flowers of Cow Parsley … and hoverflies are great predators of greenflies and other aphids … so the gardener’s friend. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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If you kill an area of the problem 'weeds' it'll be covered again in no time with more brambles and weeds.
I think you just need to accept it as it is.
At least there will be lots of creatures and bugs living in the wilderness that will keep your plants clear of aphids and the like and you should get some free blackberries
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
It just annoys me because the shrubs on the other side of the fence are out of control and blocking a lot of the light in my garden, the roots are pushing up the patio slabs, and I can't get to that side of the fence to maintain it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.