"Zapp Brannigan" wrote in message
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Got some area round the back of the house that been overrun with
brambles. What is the best method of getting rid of them, so they don't
come back?

I cut mine to the ground,
watered with SBK brushwood killer
Then covered with a carpet,
After a couple of months through the winter I dug the dead and rotting
roots
out of a very friable ground.

YMMV

Dave