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What to do with all the trimmings and bushes?

Even blackberry small leaves can be spread. You dumped leaves a little. I am worried

Fully agree 👍

Blackberries send out sucker roots that travel several metres. That doesn't look like the brambles we have in Europe.

Yeah well that is NOT going to work on these HUGE bushes in our yard, you might get a piece of the root but just try and get all of it, it's totally backbreaking and there are HUNDREDS of these HUGE ones, stalks as big around as a quarter, you dare and miss the few broken roots and guess what, they grow even MORE new plants from that, it's just too much, WAY WAY to much, even for a whole team of guys working all day!

Have you ever used pigs?

Use a mattock not a picaxe

Yeah with a pic axe not a hand tool. Paul LOL

This is the truth, you must dig them out. Chemicals are poisons, please do not add toxins to the soil. It can seem like an overwhelming job, I find if you have excessive growth, start with a weed wacker and cut it back so it's more workable to get at with a hoe/ shovel whatever you prefer to use to dig out the crown. Put them in a burn pile or (better yet) compost the crowns. If you throw them in a field or in the woods, they may live and take over the next area. It's a bit more work up front but your soil will be healthier and if you want the area for a garden, you will be healthier by not having used chemicals (plus you get in some outdoor exercise- bonus!) 😊

😢😢😢 you could keep it

Anyone think of having a couple goats? they eat them

Nobody should use round up or similar chemicals as they're connected to the decrease in the all important bee population

I agree... now, can you help on my 400 acre property. 😉

Thank you and God bless.

They come back unless you get all of the tap root out?

Get hold of the leader, cut the head, a two inch off, put into a large pint glass filled with creosote, keep the rain off not to dilute.

Great technique! I too removed close to 100 crowns on my property. I was not able to get every runner pulled. I then had to pull 100+ more small sprouts. Now I’m the summer they have slowed down on sprouting. Did I kill them?

I have a wild growing blackberry whose needles are long and deadly like razors... it cannot be handled without major injury. What to do about its long winding branches infiltration my ivy ..?

I have 200 feet of fence line to do,I’d be there for a month that way. I just lop and cut and control the best I can🤷🏻‍♂️

Suddenly I feel very hopeless 😭😳

I have a few thousand blackberries in aboy 7Ha of land... any suggestions? You can see in some of my videos

And after you have worked hard to remove ‘em, the birds fly overhead and poop out a fresh crop…

Yeah mine is growing from underneath my house, a perpetual demon.

I'm dealing with a similar situation here at my home. I noticed with the plant you grubbed that there were no runners radiating out from the base. I have extensive runners coming out from the central root. If I don't get ALL of the runners you get new plants growing out of the runners. Removing the crown only isn't enough for me. I'm not sure if what I have is blackberries or something else, but they have very sharp half inch thorns and can grow up to 8 - 10 feet tall before bowing over. I've been grubbing and re-grubbing the same area for 6 years.

Thank you!

Just figured it out this spring, but thanks

My landlord is a moron and let a huge bush grow several years. The taproot goes right through the foundation of the house. After I dug what I could out he told me that in a flood they would drink out all the water. I told him all it is doing is introducing water that would not be there in the first place to the wood and the house is rotting around his ears. He also thinks the roots are holding the house up making it stronger. Fully explains why all the outlets in a 15’ area L&R of where the bush was do not work. This was the last straw with this moronic pot freak. The roof leaks in the kitchen when it rains, cannot run anything water related simultaneously cause he did his own plumbing and used shark bite fittings for everything dropping water pressure like I’ve never seen before. And there is mold problems in the bathroom. He wants me this summer to dig up the septic tank cause he hasn’t in 10 years had it pumped out! I wanna place him in a barrel with the blackberry trimmings and roll it down a hill.

Brambles and Ivy ...the 2 most useless plants in existance

I guess I went too deep on the first couple. I used a 3" Dia. x 24" auger bit on my cordless to follow the tap root down. I went 30" down & tap root was still 1/2" big. So glad you relieved my fears of leaving some of it. Alright , 999 to go ........

Why would you want to remove them it's free food. Wild Blackberrys are perfectly edible. If there in an undesirable spot transplant them. You can also donate or sell them. If you give them away for free tho you could have some one elce do the work, put up a listing saying free dig your own blackberry plants.

Blackberries are horrendous! I love picking the berries but hate the thorns snd their invasive behavior! And, of course, they’ve taken over my raspberries… and pruning them and pulling them is made more difficult by trying to not cut and pull the raspberries!!! Is there a good way to distinguish between them? Some of the canes are obvious, some seem not to be.

Dang, this is a bit disheartening. I have a full acre of these things over my head, many are over 10 feet tall. Im gonna get as much as I can this way, but most will be just hacked down to the ground and Ill just have to slowly dig them up over the years as they return.

Crossbow herbicide is the only thing I found that works. Very expensive though.

After watching a video of David Holmgren, I tried his method of dealing with blackberry brambles on the edge of our property. So far (1 year later), it's worked beautifully. The cut and trampled section is breaking down nicely and the blackberries did not grow further last summer. We only tried a small patch to start but we will continue this method with the rest of the brambles and plant other shrubs and trees in pockets of soil we place in the carpet of dead brambles. It was so easy to do and feels a whole lot better than some of the other methods. The brambles eventually compost on the spot and I don't have to cart them to the compost heap and then cart them back to the garden. Here's a link to the video that got me started: th-cam.com/video/5r13x3lmIhI/w-d-xo.html

Thank you for showing how deep the black berry root is.

Depends on whether you have something better to do with your time. Gasoline and a match followed by triple strength application of Grazon to the base of the plant. Works well. I’m off to play golf losers.

Nice amish vid 👌

Strawberries and other berries are ok, but those "black" berries are such a nuisance. Gotta get rid of them! 😂😂😂

There is always a little piece of root left behind , I did this and in couple of years the backyard is covered. It’s easy if you have just a few plants but not if you have a couple of acres covered with this kind of weed

Hillbilly Jim?

Yes it will grow back. The leaves you left behind will start to root.

this is the method I'm using just now but some of them are so big and run so deep. do chemicals really not work?

I wonder if you could inject the roots with root diseases that only affect the specific plant, if that would work. I know blackberries can be prone to certain fungal diseases like verticillium. For that matter, couldn't you just plant much less invasive tomatoes next to it and then remove the tomatoes after they have killed the blackberries?

The good thing is they are hard to kill, but the bad thing is that they are *hard to kill*

It’s harder for me because the majority of brambles are coming through my fence from my neighbours garden. 😒

I have 3 acres of blackberry bushes that has gotten out of control. I need to kill them all.

SOD is grass bought in rolls. You take it of pallets and roll in down.

Well done . I have removed many hundreds over the years on our large property that had been overtaken by these invaders .Thus they were truly my nemesis. I found the best time for removal is on a rainy fall or early spring day or after several days of rain the soil is not as concrete like and the whole root will usually come out with a bit of digging and pulling power and a lot less time per root is spent.. In the summer when it is dry I wasted so much time and energy and would only get 1/2 the root. Plus in the in fall it is safe to have a nice fire to give these fellows A definite goodbye.

Oh no , and I have a quarter of an acre of them....... I had a feeling you were going to dig them up...... gulp !

Recently bought a property and the previous owners didn’t keep the garden in good condition let’s just say. There is so much blackberry to remove, absolutely despise the things