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Help - Massive Bramble problem

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  • FloBearFloBear Posts: 2,281

    Find another dark damp place - preferably still in your garden - and relocate the newts there. If they're not happy they'll move anyway, it's not time to hibernate yet.

  • Avoid using barbarian or glyphosate as mentioned in this blog. You need a tough woody weed killer. A storger alternative to SBK i found was broadshot. One treatment will control brambles and any other tough woody weeds. http://www.agrigem.co.uk/weed-killers/forestry-weeds/broadshot.html 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,611

      Ramsey dog, do you work for agrigem?

  • FarmergeddunFarmergeddun Posts: 229

    Broadshot (formerly known as Broadsword) contains Dicamba.  A quick look at the dicamba factsheet shows:

    "Dicamba’s toxicity to honey bees ranges from moderately toxic to practically non-toxic"

    "Researchers evaluated the toxicity of dicamba to worker honey bees when exposed to dicamba on contact or by ingestion.

    Less than half of the bees died at all doses tested."

    http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/dicamba_tech.pdf

     

    It also contains Triclopyr.  

    "Triclopyr is practically non-toxic to bees"  

    I'm always more than a little suspicious of statements like that.  I think it translates to "it is toxic". 

    http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/triclogen.pdf

  • my garden is paved but still the brambles grow we have cut them right back and used weedkillers but nothing seems to stem their growth I am really desperate now as nothing seems to work

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  • I also have bramble issues, I have a tiered garden with a decked balcony, they have grown underneath the balcony that we have within an old rockery and the roots are impossible to locate and get out. I have recently cut them back again and was hoping to stop them growing by covering the ground and the rockery under the decking with sheeting or terram, does anyone know if this will work? I was going to block the underneath of the decking off with trellis once the sheeting is down but don't want to go to this trouble if they will grow through. Any advice please?? I would love to grow some clematis or something prettier than this awful bramble!!!

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,611

    Hannah, if you have cut the brambles down to stumps, paint them now with SBK brushwood killer.

  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    hire a brush cutter (looks like a strimmer but with a metal blade) and take everything you want out down to the ground, then spray with a glyphosate based weed killer (if you can mix it yourself then make it 25% stronger than the normal mix)

    this should get rid of maybe 60-70% of the stuff and then cover with something like tarpaulin (not terran or weed matting it'll burst right thru) carpet is great but looked down on a bit now due to the chemicals it can hold.

    I have many years of experience working on a councils allotment team clearing out allotments that had been abandoned for many years! - I have the scars to prove it! :S

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    When you've taken it all down to the ground. What are you spraying treehugger?



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    sorry should have added, leave for a week, spray the regrowth

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