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Alan · 26-06-2007, 05:24 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
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In reply to Martin ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:12:54 +0100, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:

In reply to Ed_Zep ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

We're talking *seriously* overgrown. Brambles have grown to over 8
ft high and spread into my garden. The rest of the garden is
different weeds but the whole plot is overgrown.

She spends her time looking after her elderly father and watching TV
and seems to have no inclination to do anything about it so I was
going to offer to help.

Apart from being a good neighbour, I may want to sell my house next
year.

Can anyone recommend the expeditious way of clearing all this
(particularly the brambles). The area of brambles is about 6 feet
wide, 8ft high, 20 feet long?

Thanks, Ed.

Either SBK (serious stuff) or Glysophate. The latter is friendlier.
Or a big industrial-strength petrol strimmer with a metal wire,
which is an afternoon's fun with a boy's toy.

Or a chainsaw, hedgetrimmer various applications of these until it
gets short enough to burn safely.

AFAIR an excavator was used to remove brambles from a similar garden.

If you want to use the soil again in much of a hurry, you need to. Bramble
roots are a pain. Glysophate will kill them, but they take ages to rot
away. But if you replant with something which doesn't care about the state
of the ground, you can plant as soon as the glysophate has washed in.
Lupins, hollyhocks, foxgloves, that kind of thing, they tend to root
straight down and won't care about the tangled mess underneath. I once put
eight packets of mixed wild flower seed on a similar situation. The effect
in summer was quite magical. Watch out for bees and butterflies.

Either SBK (serious stuff) or Glysophate. The latter is friendlier.
where can i buy SBK as i have a similar problem