Brambles working their way in to my garden.
Beartricks
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Hi,
So I live in a rented property next to an overgrown garden. We've been in touch with the estate agents managing the property next door and they said they'd get in touch with the landlord, but they either haven't or he's not bothered. Either way he isn't local. The less said about the couple who live next to us the better. At least they're relatively quiet.
Anyway, I'm constantly cutting back brambles which are growing over (and under) the fence. Some are getting to be about 7ft tall. I've taken to chucking the cuttings back over the fence because the green bins cost money to take away now.
I know it's ultimately a problem for our landlords and the council to ultimately solve but is there anything I can do to slow their destruction? The fences are in bad nick and need replacing already but I can see a summer of heavy growth causing havoc. Not to mention the constant influx of bog-standard weeds.
I'd take any suggestions from a novel way of cutting them back, to dumping a vat of sodium chlorate over the fence while laughing like a madman. Fire sounds nice but the fences are wooden.
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As ChrissieB has said, weedkiller will work well on brambles. Unless you already have a sprayer, I'd be inclined to get a ready mixed spray bottle of Roundup and spray as much of the bramble as you can reach. It might take a few attempts but it will do for it eventually.
Weed killer, there is no real alternative with brambles they are too invasive to waste time on other methods of removing them . You need to hit them hard as early in the season as possible.
I have been leaning over my garden fence with a sprayer try to get the leaves of the big infestations of bind weed there.
There is a thick stand of dead tree stumps between the bind weed and my fence, so nothing much else will suffer.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Beware killing plants which are not yours. However well intentioned it might be.
They're not your plants, and by killing them, you COULD be liable to accusations of " causing actual criminal damage"
You are not allowed to chuck stuff back over the fence either, that's "fly tipping" and might again be classed as "actual criminal damage"
Frustrating I know, but beware taking the law into your own hands.
Weed killer. Keep the receipt and demand payment from the estate agent. If they think you're going to start getting expensive they migt give the landlord a firmer prod.
Hostafan I know. shame on me.
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That flipping Savill advert is still stalking me and blocking the screen.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Grazing Pro is the best herbicide for brambles and nettles, it's very specific and won't kill everything
Grazon Pro is the best herbicide for brambles and nettles, it's very specific and won't kill everything
Hi I too live in a rented property and next door have never done anything to their garden until this week. I have blackberry brambles which have grown over onto my property and have taken hold at side and top of back. They are thick and really long and I can no longer use my washing line. I am unable to do anything myself and two years ago paid someone to clear garden but they have come back big time! I have heard the guy that owns house next door( its empty at moment) is putting it up for sale. This week he had the tthe grass strimmed which was really high but not touched brambles. I sent him a message asking about them and he said hopefully will be done by this weekend, I explained situation . Do I have any legal rights as his negl damage to my garden which is now going to cost money to put right? Also my Dad says there is an old law that you are supposed to return any cuttings from neighbours garden to them...anyone else heard of this by any chance ?