Brambles

[MrsKP]

When is the best time to move a bramble bush ?

There is rather a nice one (large unkept sprawling i.e. a mess) sitting just the other side of a certain person's garden border.

This certain person will be out tidying up her garden/lottie during the week and as there is currently no owner for other said garden (nor has there been one in attendance since at least the end of August last year and many months before that according to the neighbours).

If this bramble was inadvertently dug up in the tidying, what would be it's chances of survival in another spot and how best to move/plant it ?

Good old prune back down to a crown and rootball ??

The scavenging bug has bitten and the bush needs some tlc.

8)

[MrsKP]

[grawrc]

You might be better either to root some cuttings or layer some branches in the soil.  brambles root very easily.

[grawrc]

For most folk the problem is gettings rid of the roots.  ;) ;D ;D ;D

[jennym]

You could try moving it and keeping some of the newer stems, that way you'd get some fruit. It should move ok at this time of year, but try to get as much of the root up as you can, and plenty of the small fibrous roots.
Dig about 2 feet around the base if you can, and pre-dig the hole for receiving it, well watering it if the soil isn't moist. You could take the opportunity to put up posts and wire for training the stems on while you are moving it.

[MrsKP]

thanks folks, i'll tell my friend  ;)

i suppose planting it in a huge pot would be out of the question until the final resting place is decided ? 

digging two foot around it will bring it into my .... erm,  my friend's garden so i guess possession and care is 9/10ths of my particular law.   ;D

it will be getting a right good haircut whatever.

[jonny211]

I've got some spare ones growing on my plot if you'd like to take those too  ;)

[John_H]

Wow, that sounds like a big job MrsKP

If its a plant which has been neglected since last August I would be seriously tempted to get the gardening gloves on and follow some of the longer trailing one year old branches away from the main plant to see if they have rooted at their tips last autumn. If this has happened then you could could just cut them off about a foot above the ground and take them out with a single shovel full of soil.  These plants will be no different to the larger older one, except you won't have to break you back to move them.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I find the halaky things root everywhere the stems touch the ground, so you may well find what you need.

[ipt8]

Yes prune to crown and rootball as soon as you like before root growth starts.

[MrsKP]

thanks to every one for your help.

Thursday is the day.  Shame that it's absolutely bucketed down today so i'm likely to get a bit damp but I've already started planning what I'm going to be doing with the fruit, so it will be a worthwhile project and I'll be so fit  ;D

[MrsKP]

having now "searched" for brambles it does seem that a bonfire might be easier.

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[grawrc]

;D ;D ;D

[MrsKP]

have you seen the size of these things ??????  no WAY was i digging it out.

it's been given a no 1 haircut though so it's a nice neat stump .... for a week or two anyway.

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