I need to build up my brambles border , but have not much luck
replanting bits of root . what soil and nutrients do they need to get
really going well ?
replanted roots bits never seem to take at all.

Layer them. No trouble at all :-(( I had half an acre which was partly
covered by layered brambles

Mike

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I need to build up my brambles border , but have not much luck
replanting bits of root . what soil and nutrients do they need to get
really going well ?
replanted roots bits never seem to take at all.

"none" wrote in message
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I need to build up my brambles border , but have not much luck
replanting bits of root . what soil and nutrients do they need to
get
really going well ?
replanted roots bits never seem to take at all.

They root well by tip-layering. Just bury the tip of the shoot to be
layered to a depth of a few inches and secure it in position somehow.

Franz

On 16/1/05 21:43, in article , "Franz
Heymann" wrote:

snip
They root well by tip-layering. Just bury the tip of the shoot to be
layered to a depth of a few inches and secure it in position somehow.

Franz



Ahem. Franz, do you *really* not recognise a troll when you meet one? ;-)
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(remove the weeds to email me)

In article ,
writes
Ahem. Franz, do you *really* not recognise a troll when you meet one? ;-)

Rarely :-(((

Whether it was a troll or not is a matter of opinion, but it was clearly
also a genuine on topic question. Genuine recreational gardening
discussion relevant to UK should never be suppressed in this group.

FWIW I was considering giving the same advice as Franz because I have
often carried out tip layering of hedging brambles with good results.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

Alan Gould wrote:
In article ,
writes
Ahem. Franz, do you *really* not recognise a troll when you meet
one? ;-)

Rarely :-(((

Whether it was a troll or not is a matter of opinion, but it was
clearly also a genuine on topic question. Genuine recreational
gardening discussion relevant to UK should never be suppressed in
this group.

FWIW I was considering giving the same advice as Franz because I
have
often carried out tip layering of hedging brambles with good
results.

And I've been shouted down here before when I said brambles don't
propagate from the roots. The crowns, sure; but the roots, not.

Mike.

In article , Mike Lyle mike_lyle_uk@REM
OVETHISyahoo.co.uk writes
And I've been shouted down here before when I said brambles don't
propagate from the roots. The crowns, sure; but the roots, not.

Some claim to propagate brambles from seed, but tip layering is the more
common method.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.