my garden is SUPER over grown with brambles, after many hours of slave labour, i've managed to thin them all out. My question is, how do i get rid of the little stumps left without having to dig them out one by one....will regular mowing kill them off?
2007-11-25 21:50:23 · 16 answers · asked by bluecow 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I took over an allotment 2 yrs ago. It was totally overgrown with brambles. The grand daughter and I cut the top growth off and burnt it, then painfully dug out every root. They come out quite easily really, just loosen them and the sodding things will pull out. They are shallow rooted, thank God, In fact by the time we'd finished our labours had almost cultivated the patch. It took us two days, but I ain't seen a bramble since. Get some good gloves....experience
2007-11-29 20:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dig out as much as you can. Approach it a bit at a time, as it's really disheartening to try and do it all at once. Anyway, you will be unable to avoid leaving some bits of root, which will happily grow back as new plants. In spring, when the brambles start to grow strongly again, apply some glyphosate (Round-Up) weedkiller to the leaves. You will have to wait a while to see any results. You will almost certainly need multiple applications. Eventually, you should eradicate the beast.
Check out some facts about Round-Up if you are concerned about pollution or health risks. You won't poison the soil as Round-Up is rendered inactive by soil. You won't kill any wildlife. You won't hurt yourself or your children. Round-Up acts on plant enzymes, preventing the production of chlorophyll. Animals do not produce chlorophyll and are thus at no risk.
You will however be removing a habitat and food source from your garden, so you might want to consider how you will remedy this by providing nectar and berries for wildlife.
Btw, I would like to know why KB considers removal and replacement of topsoil more environmentally friendly than a bit of herbicide!
2007-11-26 06:31:59 · answer #2 · answered by LynGardener 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do need to dig them out or pull them out, its the only way without using chemical weedkillers, which will kill everything else and pollute the ground too. You will need to be ULTRA on top of the brambles for at least a year, pulling up the shoots every time they appear and you will probably need to check every couple of days as they grow incredibly quickly. After this time you will eventually find that they start to give up growing, and you can cut it back to once a week and then gradually once a month.
The other way you could do it is to hire a mini-digger and driver and have the top 6-12inches of soil completely removed and skipped, then replace with fresh topsoil and start all over again.
2007-11-25 21:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brambles are virtually indestructable. You could try a flame thrower to burn off all the stumps, this helps.
I wouldn't recommend trying to dig them all out as you will never get all of them. The best thing would be try and clear small areas where you need to replant and then tackle each shoot as soon as it strats to show in Spring. By this I mean where green growth appears, carefully expose as much of the white root underneath the soil and cut it off. This will also help to stop them from spreading. Eventually and I mean in a few years with repeated treatment as mentioned above they will give up and the problem will ease.
I'm sorry but you have a real problem on your hands. Good luck.
2007-11-25 23:17:40 · answer #4 · answered by webby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You will either have to dig them out or poison them and even then they will eventually have to be pulled out. If i were you i would spend an hour or two and dig them out. If there are any growing near a fence you could always train them and harvest the fruit.
2007-11-26 08:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by Big wullie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to find a brush and stump killer at your local garden center, you use it full strength on the freshly cut stumps and it goes down into the wood and kills the roots. You can apply it with a small paint brush. But be sure you don't get it on anything else that you don't want to kill, it is deadly to all plants. Fertilome has one, it is just called Brush and Stump Killer. I think Ortho has one also.
2007-11-26 00:45:01 · answer #6 · answered by Isadora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry! digging them up is the only way, we used a flame thrower to kill off the tops once, very effective but they did start to grow back even after that!
2007-11-25 21:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by H1976 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no Dragon only thing to get rid of them is dig them out they are very resilient weed you could dig them out and cover the area and lay the web sheeting to stop them growing and alter the style of your garden if you find away let me know i have tried every thing Dave
2007-11-25 21:55:27 · answer #8 · answered by Psycho Dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fence you garden in and get some feeder pigs and ever once in a while trow some corn down where the roots are and the pigs will dig them up for you
2007-11-26 10:44:46 · answer #9 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think mowing them will just temporarily get rid of them i think the only option is to dig them out one by one unfortunatley....
2007-11-25 21:53:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋