I've just started a bramble war too. I've cleared an area with lots of bramble and nettle by hand - just what I can pull up without digging the ground. I'm not wanting to dig as its a rough woodlandy area with lots of natural groundcover - mainly ivy, and I know if I leave a gap the dreaded ground elder will move in quickly. My plan it to spot treat regrowth with gel round up in the spring and then pull again in the autumn and keep going until the plants give in. And so on for the next however many years....
weedkillers if accidentally should come in contact with your flowers will kill them they have mine the same reason as they kill wildlife its a poison .
weedkillers if accidentally should come in contact with your flowers will kill them they have mine the same reason as they kill wildlife its a poison .
I repeat not if they are used correctly and you have no evidence that they harm wildlife
Please stop posting mis-information like this unless you can substantiate such claims
Christine, it sounds like from Christopher you should be digging.
I'm still not going to as my area is a the verge between the house and my road and has deciduous trees and isn't an area I intend to be pristine. Where I accidentally pulled up some ivy, the ground elder has already invaded, and I just can't risk yet another area being infested as my garden is being taken over by it.
Although, I might be back in a year or so's time saying I wish I'd just dug it up. If so, no smug face, please, Christopher...
"I repeat not if they are used correctly and you have no evidence that they harm wildlife
Please stop posting mis-information like this unless you can substantiate such claims."
Sotongeoff, you're seriously asking how herbicides are bad for the environment and kill wildlife?? And being rude to the lone person here that is savvy to the damage they do?
Little Bird, that thread was in 2012, Geoff hasn't been here for ages.
Your links were more about farming and use of pestcides and herbicides over large areas. Careful use of glyphosate in a private garden, away from food crops and aquatic life, such as spot treating a bramble, is not in the same league. But I am anti pesticides which are far more dangerous and destroy the natural balance of nature.
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weedkillers if accidentally should come in contact with your flowers will kill them they have mine the same reason as they kill wildlife its a poison .
I repeat not if they are used correctly and you have no evidence that they harm wildlife
Please stop posting mis-information like this unless you can substantiate such claims
I'm still not going to as my area is a the verge between the house and my road and has deciduous trees and isn't an area I intend to be pristine. Where I accidentally pulled up some ivy, the ground elder has already invaded, and I just can't risk yet another area being infested as my garden is being taken over by it.
Although, I might be back in a year or so's time saying I wish I'd just dug it up. If so, no smug face, please, Christopher...
"I repeat not if they are used correctly and you have no evidence that they harm wildlife
Please stop posting mis-information like this unless you can substantiate such claims."
Sotongeoff, you're seriously asking how herbicides are bad for the environment and kill wildlife?? And being rude to the lone person here that is savvy to the damage they do?
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/naturalagriculture/weed/files/herbicide/less_harmful_e.htm
http://ipm.ncsu.edu/wildlife/cotton_wildlife.html
http://drfoxvet.com/library/info/roundup-harm-people
http://texnat.tamu.edu/library/publications/reducing-herbicide-risks-to-wildlife-on-rangeland/
http://science.jrank.org/pages/3305/Herbicides-Environmental-effects-herbicide-use.html
Get over yourself and go and re-educate yourself, ignoramus.
Welcome to the forum little bird.
How about joining in a current discussion or starting your own.
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Little Bird, that thread was in 2012, Geoff hasn't been here for ages.
Your links were more about farming and use of pestcides and herbicides over large areas. Careful use of glyphosate in a private garden, away from food crops and aquatic life, such as spot treating a bramble, is not in the same league. But I am anti pesticides which are far more dangerous and destroy the natural balance of nature.