Anyone Know How To Get Rid Of Blackberry Bushes?
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enjoys freebies · Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:47 pm Quote

Besides renting a goat? Laughing

My hubby and I are cutting down all of the blackberry bushes on the side of the house. We love them and so do the deer, but they are choking our cherry blossom trees. It's a big job. Trouble is we don't know how to keep them from coming back and digging them up is too hard. Does anyone have any advice, please?

enjoys freebies · Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:39 pm Quote

We had a Mulberry tree that was a big pain too. Dirty messy tree - planted right up against the front bay window. We cut it down, poured some root kill in. I too was not inclined to dig a hole to try to get this thing out. Every Spring, there it was again. Finally - last Spring, it gave up the ghost.

So - since digging isn't the option. Cut them down as far as you can, add the root kill. Any new sprigs that surface - lop those lil suckers off.

For an evergreen bush (a.k.a. in my house anyway a Mosquito Bush) we had tree trimmers come with a machine that grinds down to the root system and kills it off.

Geez - long way around to tell a short story, sorry. Just 2 things that we did here.

enjoys freebies · Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:27 pm Quote

Thanks Candy,

That root machine sound awesome but the blackberry bushes start literally around the bases of the trees, too. The people who lived here before us did not do any yard maintenance so now we have "bad roots" mixed in with "good roots" . We are afraid that the root kill would kill the trees too. Darn it! Confused

enjoys freebies · Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:58 pm Quote

my parents had a clump of blackberry at the back of our holiday home, it was so stubborn and covered in thorns that we ended up tying the base of the blackberry to the tow-bar of the car to pull it out!!! it was fantastic fun and they never grew back - too traumatised i imagine! however, i wouldn't recommend doing this if your blackberry is too close to the house Embarassed

Kiwigirl.

enjoys freebies · Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:46 pm Quote

pnw wrote:

Thanks Candy,

That root machine sound awesome but the blackberry bushes start literally around the bases of the trees, too. The people who lived here before us did not do any yard maintenance so now we have "bad roots" mixed in with "good roots" . We are afraid that the root kill would kill the trees too. Darn it! Confused

Then I guess lop the whole thing down to the soil line, keep cutting back anything to starts to re-grow. For some reason I remember my mom doing something with a savage rose bush, she cut it back then poured hot wax on the tips to prevent them from re-growing. I know the bush is long since dead, but don't recall now if the wax thing worked then. Sorry.

enjoys freebies · Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:04 pm Quote

what an interesting idea. i think i will google it and see what comes up. thanks!

enjoys freebies · Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:11 pm Quote

I wouldn't use the root kill if it's close to your cherry blossom trees.

I usually pull them out root and all...and they still come back.

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