How can I get rid of Brambles permanently?
Question:They are growing through from my elderly neighbours garden, and started to root down tight to the front wall of my house.
My husband has cleared all that he can see, but there are many roots that could do damage to the wall. I know there is a chemical to kill off trees if their roots damage property, but I don't know the name of it.
Can anyone help please.
Answers:
Spray them with glyphosate ( roundup) this weedkiller is absorbed through the plant and kills the roots so they will not grow back it does not harm the soil and will not harm animals or people once dried on the plant,it takes from a week to 10 days before you will see a result,just follow the instructions on the product and you should have no more problem from the brambles.There has to be active growth on the brambles before you spray so don't chop them down before you spray.Hope this helps.Good luck.
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Rootout.
I had that problem one time I bough 25 lb. salt mixed with water and gave them a drink everday until they left
Spray them with a systemic herbicide such as Roundup.
Glyphosthate.
I think you will find the brambles will keep returning unless you dig them out completely.
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Would you like someone to come and pour chemicals and poisons on the floor of your house all over the carpets, no, why not? you seem prepared to do it to the hedgehogs and other species of wildlife, there's always a compromise and poison isn't one, just because you can't see how the chemicals will burn,hurt and probably blind the wildlife, don't kid yourself it won't happen, think again.
Ray. West York's. U.K.
all of those weedkillers don't properly work on brambles really. If it was my garden, I'd dig down a foot below the border of yours and your neighbours boundary, dig out everything you can see. Then spray some deisel on the exposed roots from next door (yes i said deisel!). Then place landscape fabric soaked in deisel against the wall of the trench and fill in. This should stop them for at least five years. in the meantime you can negotiate with your neighbours to do something about their crappy garden. Failing that, it is possible to get a restraining order against your neighbours for damaging your land.
a weed killer containing glyphosphate.
weedkiller boiling water bleach or petrol
Home made Bramble killer -
First off, boil the kettle/pan to the highest boiling point and pour slowly on roots you can see.
Then when cooled off, add a tablespoon of salt at the feet of the bramble bush, in a small groove on the side by the bush's trunk/root.
gosh i cant believe anyone would add posion or petrol to the ground! Dig them out or cut them back.
Or learn to live with them - perhaps they're there for a reason.
I have the same problem, but it's all part of wildlife - I've resigned msyelf to having to cut them back every few weeks.
just dig them out, if they reappear you havn't got all the root out dig again if you can't be bothered to dig them out get some poison from the garden center (roundup is fine) but you will still have to get rid of them Whatever you do don't use diesel it might kill them but it will contaminate your soil for a very long time and this could affect plants that you do want. I wouldn't worry too much about the wall though, bramble roots wont do any significant damage unless its very weak anyway.
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