In reply to Alan ) who wrote this in
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"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:12:54 +0100, "Uncle Marvo"
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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

Any garden centre should sell it. It stands for something Brushwood Killer.
I can't remember what the something is. You need rubber gloves. It will take
down quite sizeable trees if applied with a bit of diesel. May take more
than one go, but it *will* work. You may wish to read the instructions
before purchasing and make your decision based on that :-)