brambles brambles everywhere!

[fugazi]

new here and have just got my first plot a few weeks ago, my problem is brambles 6 feet high covering the plot. I know it will take alot of hard work and i am not scared but are there any tips you knowledgable lot can give me in clearing them? cheers, shaun

[fugazi]

[saddad]

Cut off all the top growth... and probably best burnt... so you can find the roots dig out as much as you can... and burn.. leave a month or two... under carboard/membrane than dig out any regrowth..
;D

If you use mulch method you can grow other stuff as Bramble shoots are easily spotted and pull out as much as you can whenever you see them..
:o

[petengade]

When I did mine (had been left for four years) I cut down all the brambles and  left twelve inches sticking up, so that I knew where they were when it was time to dig  up the roots, bought a new grubbing axe and leather gloves from Screw Fix and grubbed out the roots and had a big bonfire, lovely now, all planted up, the odd bramble that I did not get all out and begins to show I poison with brushwood killer, and dig up when dead just to make sure. you wouldn't think it's the same plot now. best of luck.

[fugazi]

thank you for the tips, i have screw-fix round the corner. cheers ;D