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New Brunswick

How does one get rid of unwanted wild blackberry bushes? They are trying to take over my raspberry patch...which is next to my pumpkin patch. I have been told to cut them down in the fall and they would die out over the winter. Will this work or should I do something now?

5/1/2004 11:27:49 PM

Mill Creek West by god Virginia

find a rhaman calander and on it it will have ember days if you cut the briars down during one of these ember days especially during dog days they will not come back!try it burrhead

5/2/2004 3:51:48 AM

Key West, FL

Give up now, they are never gonna be gone! We have super blackberry bushes here. You can spray them, weed wack then spray, then burn. But they are still gonna come back the next year. We pull out root balls the size of baseballs with "small" tree sized roots coming out of that. We have an acre of Blackberrys. Only way to make sure they will be gone forever is to pull out all the roots and root balls.

5/2/2004 4:15:43 AM

Roanoke Il

Till the up works for me run the till threw them a few times.

5/2/2004 7:39:51 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I recommend getting a goat...lol You may have to spray them with some brush killer. Digging the crowns out for a small quantity will also work.

5/2/2004 9:20:49 AM

Montoursville, PA

Dig out the crowns. If it is a bramble patch of substance you may need to have a Roundup party. Never had one go past the second application of Roundup Professional Strength.

Any tiny rootlet left in the soil will start a new plant.

Remove the diggings from the property or screen them with a very fine screen.

5/2/2004 10:43:11 AM

New Brunswick

The Roundup I have, I got at Wallmart. I used it on the burdocks and it acted as fertilizer! The ground is too rocky for the tiller. The plants are fairly far apart however, but next to impossible to pull. I wouldn't mind, but they are taking over my raspberry patch. We tried to snare them and pull them out with the fourwheeler..but everything just pulled off. We might try to plough them out with the Fjord ponies. I would have to cut them off first...wouldn't want to scratch the ponies. Blasted things anyway!

5/2/2004 3:02:08 PM

Key West, FL

I'm gonna take a picture of my blackberry patch for you guys. It should be up in the photo gallery later.

5/2/2004 6:21:44 PM

Western Pa.

Well all else fails, make blackberry pie and move the patch!

5/3/2004 8:12:31 AM