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Old fasioned CHEMICALS !!!!
Fingle....:
Right.....
Anyone know of nasty b***tard chemical that will kill brambles off and leave soil usable a year later ?
rdak:
sodium chlorate?
tim:
- thought SBK did? 6 weeks? = Tim
ina:
You must be desperate (and sound it)!
Sorry, hope you get the job done. Good luck.
gavin:
Hi Fingle
While ago, I had a quarter of one of my plots to clear - rank with weeds. Desperate to use the area next spring, with NO time at all to clear by hand, I used weedkiller. Very carefully, following instructions to the letter. Once the weeds were "well and truly dead" - truned it over quickly with the spade.
Result in spring?
One quarter plot full of nasty, nasty, nasty, sour soil; thick, cold, wet, dead. Not a worm except in the 12 inches round the edge; no sign of any life in the middle whatsoever.
---------------- Except? Couch grass! Alive and kicking! The bloody stuff was dancing around in jubilation!!!!!!!
Two weekends of the dirtiest, hardest digging I've ever done - the soil actually stank, and I'd to remove these great stinking clumps of weed roots in February, cold, dank and miserable.
There is no smiley yet invented to indicate what I was feeling! :)
If I were back again with that bed to clear? I'd wait and do it by hand slowly, bit by bit, and to pot with being over-ambitious. Nothing would persuade me to use weedkiller again.
Anyway - that's by way of anecdote! Not advice!
Good luck - Gavin
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