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Can bramble push through mulch?
Chris Mason
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I've set up a small wildlife area, this morning a decided to turn over a little patch of ground, throw some compost in and apply a lovely composted wood bark mulch over the top of the ground, basically what Im trying to achieve by this is make the ground better for bramble to grow in.
I just have question, 1) the ground I worked today already has a two small pieces of the plant, will this plant be able to send out new shoots and will these shoots be able to push through the 2inch-ish of mulch?0
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Yes. 2 feet ofmulch probably
In the sticks near Peterborough
Most definitely. It can push its way through weed suppressing membrane with 2 inches of gravel on top.
I was going to say 'is the Pope a catholic' ....................
It'll be the happiest bramble bush in Christendom
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's great news then, the cats will hopefully hate it but hopefully the birds will rejoice at the fact that they can now nest in peace... I've got a lot of song birds visiting my garden, I've also had a butilities nesting in one of the trees buta sadly something disturbed it, I found eggs on the floor and an empty nest a few months ago
*blue tit
Why not make some nesting boxes to give protection for next year.
Bluetits usually nest in holes in hollow trees or in a nestbox with a small hole - are you sure the nest was that of a bluetit?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
To be honest it's a smidge of an assumption, I'm simply going off the fact that the eggs I found on the floor look like blue tit eggs + when this was going on a blue tit kept flying to and from the site where I found the nest. But I now doubt this as its a open sort of nest not an enclosed one...
Esspee- I am, I have only been doing this sort of gardening for a few months, I'm going to be getting a good tough 'predator proof' one.
http://www.livingwithbirds.com/nest-boxes-by-species/blue-tit/2gr-nest-box/