There are Landscape gardeners who also offer garden maintenance and clearance. They need these kind of jobs to keep their workforce employed throughout the year.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Cut the brambles to the ground with a brushwood cutter, dig out the main roots. I think you're unlikely to dig out all the roots so I'd just concentrate on the main roots and stumps. You will get regrowth but this is easily sprayed off with Roundup in late spring, while actively growing but before it gets too big. Might be an idea just to lay the garden to grass (after cultivating the soil surface) for the first season or two as it'll be easier to catch any persistent weeds popping up, also it'll give you time to get to know the plot (where the sunny spots and shady spots are at various times of year etc).
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Instead of getting someone to do the work for you can't you do it yourself. I moved into mine 4 years ago and I'm still working around it slowly but I get the satisfaction of knowing that I have changed a jungle into a garden
I had to tackle the exact same job a few years ago and if you are happy to do it, it's not a hard job, just time consuming. I wouldn't cut the stems right back to the ground as it's easier to get them out when they have a bit of a handle (you will need thick gloves). The Green bits are this year's fruiting canes and the brown, previous years growth that has died off and which be brittle.
I don't use weed killer and although I got most of the brambles out by just digging they did regrow to some extent and again I just let them get a foot long or so and pulled them. If you do this when the ground is wet you can normally get most of the root out with it.
If you are DIY-ing it then I think possibly a pick axe would be a good investment. A fork and spade are good, but if yo have a largish area as you appear to have then this tool will make it a bit easier. The pointy end can be pushed under and used to lever the root clump stumps out. Using a fork is okay but you still have to chop through the roots somehow. I find the almost effortless leverage compared to possibly bending the tines on a nice fork is worth it. Also the axe bladed edge is great for cutting through roots. Useful if you do not have a spare ancient pair of loppers or pruners.
I only got one recently after trying not to bend my forks or force spades for many years.
I don't know how I did without ours. The one in the link below is pretty much like the one we bought. Disclaimer:Other sites and implements are available.
If you get someone in do not pay them until the work is complete. They come out with all the sob stories they can think off to get the full payment out of you after they do half the job which is well done so you think why not. You never see them again. I was caught out with this one and so was my daughter.
Do you have a lawn mower? If not, you are going to need one.
Remove the obvious hazards like rocks and bricks by hand, and just push the mower into the bramble-jungle. One go should give you acces. You will need several goes to get rid of it all finally. In the meantime, it will begin to look better.
Also get some stout gloves; grab a bramble near to the ground, where it is less thorny, and out as much root out as possible. You can start a new lawn easily without further work. Most weeds will be kept in check by ongoing mowing. I did this over ca 3 years to reveal a bluebell wood (I started with a sickle).
If you can't keep it in the family, choose now the person who will do the maintenance and get him/her to do it.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Mmm … Bédé’s mower method depends on having the right sort of mower … I’ve done that very successfully with a beat-up old petrol rotary mower on wheels.
My current electric Flymo hover mower wouldn’t touch it and wouldn’t survive that sort of treatment either.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't want to teach Grannies to suck eggs, but can I just remind folk that the photo only shows a third of the site. That means it's a fair enough size for tackling on your own, especially if people are working and/or have a young family etc. I could still tackle messy, neglected areas if they weren't large, and I have the time to do it, but I'm not sure I'd want to deal with anything much larger than what's in that photo without some help
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I don't use weed killer and although I got most of the brambles out by just digging they did regrow to some extent and again I just let them get a foot long or so and pulled them. If you do this when the ground is wet you can normally get most of the root out with it.
A fork and spade are good, but if yo have a largish area as you appear to have then this tool will make it a bit easier.
The pointy end can be pushed under and used to lever the root clump stumps out.
Using a fork is okay but you still have to chop through the roots somehow.
I find the almost effortless leverage compared to possibly bending the tines on a nice fork is worth it.
Also the axe bladed edge is great for cutting through roots. Useful if you do not have a spare ancient pair of loppers or pruners.
I only got one recently after trying not to bend my forks or force spades for many years.
I don't know how I did without ours.
The one in the link below is pretty much like the one we bought. Disclaimer:Other sites and implements are available.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mighty-Steel-Heavy-Fibreglass-Handle/dp/B0765X1QR3/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=pick+axe&qid=1707736870&sr=8-8
God Luck and Happy gardening.
Remove the obvious hazards like rocks and bricks by hand, and just push the mower into the bramble-jungle. One go should give you acces. You will need several goes to get rid of it all finally. In the meantime, it will begin to look better.
Also get some stout gloves; grab a bramble near to the ground, where it is less thorny, and out as much root out as possible. You can start a new lawn easily without further work. Most weeds will be kept in check by ongoing mowing. I did this over ca 3 years to reveal a bluebell wood (I started with a sickle).
If you can't keep it in the family, choose now the person who will do the maintenance and get him/her to do it.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I could still tackle messy, neglected areas if they weren't large, and I have the time to do it, but I'm not sure I'd want to deal with anything much larger than what's in that photo without some help
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...