On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:02:39 +0100, atwifa wrote:

like all plants: if you keep on taking the upper part (leaves, stem,
shoots
etc), the roots will eventually die, no matter how immovable they seem to
be. with brambles the 'eventually' can seem like along time - but it
will
happen.

This is all very well if you have brambles in the middle of a large plot,
but if the roots are travelling from outside your property then it is
doomed to failure as they will just keep coming. In this case you will
have to use the glyphosate method.

Sammi