"Al N" wrote .
I have acquired a piece of scrubland that used to be grassland but is now
becoming bramble-infested. I'm thinking of turning the land into allotments
or perhaps grazing land - anything that relieves me from having to
constantly maintain it. The first job is to arrest the bramble invasion.
Can anyone advise how to get rid of them? I could burn them away, but I
guess they'd grow back, wouldn't they. They root deeply don't they? I can't
get a bulldozer or JCB onto the land (even if I could afford it), as there
is only a narrow gate about 1.5 mtrs wide. Is there a cost-effective
chemical solution?


Had such a problem at a previous underused allotment site and we burnt off
the top growth completely, cleared away the debris and then just mowed it
every few weeks so that it could not grow back. One season and it was gone.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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