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Clearing overgrowth

kevcoskevcos Posts: 2
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Hello all,
I've recently bought a new house with a large garden that is very much overgrown. In some areas of the garden before I do anything I will ask a landscape designer to plan a garden design that incorporates the existing plants.
However in the area of the garden pictured below (which are old raised veg beds) it needs to be entirely cleared overgrowth to provide access for other Works.

Can anyone advise on how best to clear this area. I have a mini digger so turning the soil over wont be an issue however I first really need the organic matter cleared.

Its too thick for a strimmer, a brush cutter may be able for it but perhaps spraying the area with some manner of weed killer would be an easier option and ideally I want to reduce the amount of waste I will need to dispose of, as I will have to skip it away.

Thanks for reading!

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    A strong form of glyphosate should kill it all.
    The type you need is Glyphosate 360 (360ml/L).
    It is very strong, so use a sprayer with the nozzle set to produce small droplets, not a fine mist that will blow about and kill stuff in other people's gardens, and use on a calm overcast day - no shortage of them recently!
    Give it all 1 spray - it is ONLY absorbed by the leaves and has no effect in the soil.
    Wait a couple of weeks and repeat.
    After another week see if there's anything still alive and give it another spray.
    I had a similar area, but not as big.
    The only thing that needed a 3rd spray was ivy when I did it, and after that everything was dead.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • kevcoskevcos Posts: 2
    Pete.8 said:
    A strong form of glyphosate should kill it all.
    The type you need is Glyphosate 360 (360ml/L).
    It is very strong, so use a sprayer with the nozzle set to produce small droplets, not a fine mist that will blow about and kill stuff in other people's gardens, and use on a calm overcast day - no shortage of them recently!
    Give it all 1 spray - it is ONLY absorbed by the leaves and has no effect in the soil.
    Wait a couple of weeks and repeat.
    After another week see if there's anything still alive and give it another spray.
    I had a similar area, but not as big.
    The only thing that needed a 3rd spray was ivy when I did it, and after that everything was dead.
    Thanks Pete, that sounds exactly what I'm looking for.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @Pete.8.  Do you think that will kill ground elder,  I used SBK last year, 50/50%. It made no difference,  went last year but back this year and enormous and flowering already. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Hi @lyn - I'm pleased to say it's not something I have in my garden, but it did kill everything in the wilderness at the end of my garden that was untouched for more than a decade.
    I imagine it would

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Thanks @Pete.8. Think I’ll try that,  as I said, SBK,  no good at all. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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