Wild Blackberries Are Taking Over - How To Get Rid Of Them
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2021
- Wild blackberries are taking over - how to get rid of them. After we cleared out the orchard in the garden area and planted all the trees and blackberries, it didn't take long for the wild blackberries to find their way back into the orchard. While we love all of the wild berries we have on the property, we don't want them taking over the areas we've designated for other things. But how to get rid of them? We don't want to use harsh chemicals like Roundup (Roundup be GONE!), but we needed the blackberries that we did NOT plant in the orchard gone. Mitch did his homework and is trying out a natural, organic method of just pouring white vinegar on the undesirable plant, he explains all his reasoning for trying this method in the video. So far so good!
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Getting rid of blackberry bushes/vines is difficult. They have a mind of their own and because their vines grow under ground, you never know where they will pop up. I usually have to just keep cutting them back, or mowing over them (of course this way, they always come back). With a pair of thick gloves you can sometimes pull them out by their roots with the runners coming along with it. Over the years we have learned to workaround them, and just enjoy the berries. It looks like maybe the vinegar will do the trick! Good luck!
We'll see. We just don't want them taking over the fruit trees.
I do the same too Kat. i just keep mowing or weed wacking them. Interested to see if the vinegar works for good.
Blackberries....yum yum yummmy!
Good idea to use the vinegar! Another great use for that stuff!! Have a great week!
Thanks for sharing that experiment! Take care! ☺
Thank you kindly for sharing
Great experiment, hopefully it works long-term. 💯❤👍
I'll trade you blackberrys for some of our bamboo 😂😂
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Ugh....totally feel your pain. We had the same problem.
I think this actually worked. No sign of new growth.
@@mytinyretirement good to know!
Howdy thanks for sharing! New to your channel
WELCOME!
Thank you for sharing! :)
I'd like to see this experiment with it just applied to the soil/roots! Then you'd know if you could just dump it under a large mature blackberry bush that are too tall to spray all the leaves! Vinegar will kill darn near any plant its poured onto, especially when its young new shoots like this. Some people add salt (and a bit of Dawn soap I think? There are many recipes online.) to make a mixture to use in place of Round up.
Thanks again!
They still haven't grown back. We're impressed.
Hey there!! Here I am Ireland the wildblacberries grows everywhere too!!!
We love them, but not choking out our new orchard. We still have plenty left elsewhere.
Keep one and you'll have a million
Vinegar appears to work well Have a good day
I was really surprised.
Hi my friend
How am I going to do part of a field with vinegar and what's it going to do to the soil long-term?
Funny, you are removing blackberries and I'm trying to keep mine alive in a huge pot on my porch. Lol We move a lot and I want to bring them with me. Is there a video on how to protect the leaves? I have something eating the leaves of my blackberry bushes and my lemon tree/bush. I'm currently in Va near D.C. so I have to learn different things for different states. Lol
Just the small invasive wild ones that will choke everything else out. We have giant juicy ones that we've cultivated.
It's crazy you're getting rid of blackberries and people are trying to grow blackberries lol.
We have PLENTY left. We just don't want them to choke out our orchard. We love our blackberries...just not there.
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I gotcha! ☺😉
Your axe/adze mattock is the best hand tool for removing blackberries.
I have a pick/adze myself, but I have an axe and two handed loppers handy when I'm digging up blackberry.
I hear poor, pathetic people with ACRES of blackberry wondering what they can do about it. I've given that some thought and I'm guessing it would be useful to hire a farmer with an old fashioned plow to plow up the affected areas to a depth of 18" or so. Digging the roots and root ball up is much the hardest part of the job, and I'm guessing that a good plowing with make it relatively easy to sort out the roots and root balls.
Mitch swears by that thing. I, on the other hand, can't lift it! And when I do, the head doesn't stay where it should. 😆 🤣 😂 I'll leave it to him.
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I am no feminist... he can HAVE it! 😆 🤣 😂
How about if you have 10 acres full of them?? Last owner did not take care of this property..,
Yikes!
Hydraulic Fluid, Done
😆 That works too 😆
Napam works
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I would love to have your wild blackberries
We have TONS of them all over the property, but right there is where we planted our new orchard, including some super huge, cultivated blackberries. Wild blackberries are teeny and extremely invasive so we need to get them out of there so they don't choke out and kill our new stuff. We still have TONS for foraging and hunting for.
@@mytinyretirement well more than likely you are not a easy drive from where I an in Gainesville Florida
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I have everywhere around house. I will have to try the vinegar myself. Thanks for sharing.