"Colin Jacobs" wrote in message
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My new Allotment plot it coved in c50 years of Brambles, other than
using a
brush-cutter blade to cut them down how does on get to kill the
root? any
suitable weed killers?
Thanks
Cutting them down with a bruchcutter and generally tidying the site is
all you need/can do for now. Then wait until you have a good growth of
leaves and young stems on the brambles and other weeds (probably
mid-April) and spray with roundup. A week to 10 days after that you
could dig or rotavate a small area to get some veg in. I suggest a
small area because there's going to be other weeds in there that
haven't shown by mid-April - bindweed for example so you'll need to
spray at least one more time on the rest of the plot to see those off.
You'll be rotating crops annually so if the small area you cultivated
in your first spring was troubled with bindweed or other late showing
perennials it could be sprayed a couple of times in the following
spring, then used for later crops. It looks like a long drawn out
process but it will save a lot of hard work later. You won't need to
repeat any of it so long as you keep on top of the weeding.

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Rod

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