A mini excavator is cheap to hire! I'm about to embark on a large clearing project and am planning on flail mowing the tops off, then digging our the roots with the machine.
@@howardryburn9646 Yes that works. I think though it is a constant battle. With a big establlished patch you will have to come back quite often for years to get them all.
@seaturtledog Agreed . I had 3 acres grown up into 30' overgrown orchard trees. Crossbow & Round up knocked them down each season but did not kill the crown. This is the final stage of my war.
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.
So true on rainy season job this is ! I tried a auger bit I bought in yard tool section at H Depot. I chucked the bit in my cordless Dewalt & it loves to follow the tap root down. I hate Himalayan blackberry !
I trust you because of your overalls, hat, shoes and gloves - you have dealt with this before. :) Apparently I need to find a pick ax and the strength to wield it and deal with it.
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
I successfully removed a patch of Himalayan blackberries by digging out each and every crown with a garden fork. Obviously I did not remove all roots as some of them were 3-4 feet long but nothing so far re-sprouted from these.
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.
I've been debating about going after the roots of the black berries I've hacked down. I guess this is the only way to get rid of them. They got over 8 feet this year and almost took over the entire back of my house. Something has to be done besides just chopping them down.
I agree that uprooting with mattocks is the only way. I wonder, however , if a rotavator would work as the roots seem to go down and sideways rather than straight down. Also, in your video, some residual roots were left. Do these not grow back?
I used a Rotavator when I moved into my house decades ago. Biggest mistake ever! The machine's blades chopped the roots into small pieces, and the rotation cultivated them back down into the soil - they grew like wildfire next year. It took me 2 seasons to remove them by hand, same way as the guy in the video. Only hard graft will shift the blxxxy things, unfortunately.
@@tiggywinkle1000 I agree, the best chemical thing like roundup doesn't work, just waste time and money. Now I use my hand to pull it out, it is a painful and exhaust work. However, in the long term, it really works.
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 ........
Has anyone tried stump and Vine Killer (garden center product). I saw a video with a field full of these invasive blackberry vines and this homeowner has been putting on the top of the cut vine. Apparently vine dies off but you have to add to every vine. It’s a long term process, but the homeowner has been successful. I am dealing with this problem and want to get a handle before it gets out of control. Any advise is welcome. Thanks
Rafa10690- YES I HAVE BEEN USING THE PRODUCT. “STUMP AND VINE KILLER “ BY THE COMPANY BONIDE. I CUT DOWN 44 TREES AND SHRUBS OF ALL VARIETIES ON MY PROPERTY LAST YEAR. YOU HAVE TO BRUSH THIS PRODUCT ON A FRESH CUT, OTHERWISE IT DOES NOT WORK. I USED IT ON LOW STUMPS AND TALLER ONES TOO. ALSO USED IT ON THE TROUBLESOME BLACKBERRY VINES. IT WORKS VERY WELL. WHAT I HAVE NOTICED IS THAT THE PRODUCT SEEMS TO DRY UP THESE STUMPS AND WEAKENS THEM TO WHERE THEY LITERALLY DETERIORATE AND CRUMBLE. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO ALL THE STUMPS BUT THEY ALL REMAINED DEAD AND UNABLE TO GROW BACK AGAIN. AS FOR THE STUBBORN BLACKBERRY VINES, THEY TOO HAVE REMAINED DEAD. I STILL HAVE A LARGE AREA OF THESE VINES GROWING BEHIND A GREENHOUSE. I PLAN ON BRUSHMOWING THAT WHOLE AREA DOWN, THEN BROADCAST SPRAYING THAT AREA ONCE ITS CUT WITH THE VINE KILLER BY BONIDE. I HOPE IT WORKS JUST AS WELL. GOOD LUCK.
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
Try doing this with boysenberries. I did and dug down 3 feet to get every root and they are happily growing and killing out our new vineyard. There has to be a more permanent way. Cane plants grow from roots left in the soil. Just saying. No need to comment back.
I'm attempting to grow native fast growing trees to starve them for nutrients. Certain trees and plants produce anti plant growth chemicals in their roots such as juglone in black walnut trees. I'm also attempting to use fire and hot coals in small patches to super heat the ground. Another commenter also suggested a pest biological solution such as a plant disease that is obviously a risky experiment.
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.
I would invite Thor over and replace his mighty hammer with a common pickaxe. and tell him to get to work. Or have him conjure up a lightning storm and burn those thorny buggers!
So I moved into a house that has a yard that has been neglected for over a year. There are giant bulbs that the bushes grow off of under the ground which the old owners put cement over. The cement didnt stop them and now they are growing like crazy and the bulbs are very deep rooted. What should I do?
Chemicals will slow down blackberry, but they very rarely ever kill it entirely. It's a huge problem here in Australia that is left to run wild by far too many people sadly - largely because it's difficult and expensive to actually kill.
@@langdons2848 I've had to use roundup weed killer on a bramble growing in a wall whose roots I cannot pull out without taking the wall down. The rest I've managed to dig up ok. It'll be interesting to see if the one in the wall has died or if I have to take further action.
@@MrRichymil I'm sure you will kill it with enough glyphosate on just one plant, but it's not effective treating big infestations. I personally hate glyphosate after my two dogs both ended up with the same cancer at the same time, I believe because of run off from my neighbour yard (my dogs used to play on that fence line with his dogs). So be careful of where the stuff goes. Personally, I would just keep knocking the tops off. It can't keep, regrowing forever without leaves.
@@langdons2848 Okay I'll try that. In London it seems to be the fashion for local councils to let some brambles grow. There's a park in Brixton were there is a nice pond and a lot of the area is fenced off. The brambles have been allowed to take over and this is evident throughout the park. It must be some type of ecological idea.
@@MrRichymil that's interesting to hear. They do make good habitat for small birds etc. But here in Australia the stuff is just a disaster and the birds spread it so easily. No council could cultivate blackberry in good conscience - while they force farmers to clear it on their land.
Other than pulling out the root. What worked best for you? crossbow, Roundup, diesel, salt vinegar mix, ect.. got a tsunami of himalayan blackberries creeping up on my property.
@@trailerparkfarmingnfilming765 could I apply this method to my allotment? I’ve just taken on a plot that is completely covered in blackberries. It would be near on impossible to dig them all out
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?
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.
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
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?
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 ..?
Yes, as long as the crown is intact (and they are tough). That plant is probably growing in the park compost as we speak. All species of blackberry transplants well. They are shipped bare root when ordered through the mail. I transplant marionberry (marion blackberry) plants at the vineyard every year.
That is something definitely worth trying! I am happy you made this video, I am terribly scared to use any of those chemical weed killers in case they may hurt the neighborhood pets and including how damaging they are to the environment and they never do work.
Maybe because I'm a Washingtonian but I'm like WTF would you EVER want to do that. But here those damn plants are a weed, we freaking hate them. Lovely blackberries fruit, but they never die.....Never! 😡😡😡 they hurt as hell too.
That was excellent when you have one little bush. But how would you go about doing that for a football size field area??? Somebody pls help. And I want to do it organically
@@kymberlydawn1445 no never got my answer. I also live on a cliff so I'm having the same problem as you. I hate to say this but I've been using Crossbow chemical and it's been working for the cliff side. It's not the organic way.
@carlyyoung123, @KymberlyDawn There are two methods, one mechanical and the other chemical. The first thing you can do is cut the canes down with a machete, weed wacker, or hedge trimmer, and then come back with a mower to cut them as close to the ground as possible. However, you're not attacking the roots so they will resprout and come back; you're simply continuing to knock them down with repeated mowings. What this also does is keep the fruit from creating new shoots and hopefully give other plants, i.e. grasses, the opportunity to begin growing and smothering the blackberries. The "chemical" method is to use vinegar (acetic acid). The standard grocery store vinegar is 5% and using that undiluted on a sunny day to "burn" the vegetation is very effective. You can also get a 20% vinegar which is called "horticultural vinegar" and actually considered a herbicide. Many people seem to recommend this for blackberries however ... it's capable of corroding metal and concrete, and could blind you. So be certain to wear protection, especially goggles, and use extra caution if it's a windy day. Finally, both concentrations of vinegar will kill anything and everything it lands on, not just weeds and blackberries. The vinegar will also alter the pH of your soil if with repeated uses or if you go too aggressive. This is another reason to consider only using the 5% vinegar.
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!
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.
Did you ever try the 1Gallon Vinegar/1or more cups salt/dishliquid solution loads are raving about? Will try it on my little blighters, erm, I mean , brambles. Thanks for posting, my partner agrees with you!
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.
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.
Even though blackberries are food, they grow and spread out like crazy, they're very hard to tame. The bushes become a menace when they grow into your garage, or around the sides of your house, they're hard to kill and get rid of, plus the thorns are sharp and thick.
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Never throw it in the bin , plant it in someones yard who you don"t like .
Haha
That works fine with a few young plants but no way are you going to dig out a huge patch.
A mini excavator is cheap to hire!
I'm about to embark on a large clearing project and am planning on flail mowing the tops off, then digging our the roots with the machine.
Agreed the ground has to be machine cleared once & then when the crowns send up shoots in spring they can be dug quickly with a diligent crew .
@@howardryburn9646 Yes that works. I think though it is a constant battle. With a big establlished patch you will have to come back quite often for years to get them all.
@seaturtledog Agreed . I had 3 acres grown up into 30' overgrown orchard trees. Crossbow & Round up knocked them down each season but did not kill the crown. This is the final stage of my war.
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.
Or soaking it with a hose for an hour or two, that works
So true on rainy season job this is !
I tried a auger bit I bought in yard tool section at H Depot. I chucked the bit in my cordless Dewalt & it loves to follow the tap root down.
I hate Himalayan blackberry !
I plant them
I trust you because of your overalls, hat, shoes and gloves - you have dealt with this before. :) Apparently I need to find a pick ax and the strength to wield it and deal with it.
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
Or 7 Ha ....
It’s harder for me because the majority of brambles are coming through my fence from my neighbours garden. 😒
Exactly, been happening for at least 5 years in my area.
I successfully removed a patch of Himalayan blackberries by digging out each and every crown with a garden fork. Obviously I did not remove all roots as some of them were 3-4 feet long but nothing so far re-sprouted from these.
Now just keep it mowed and feed and only grass will grow there.
Good to hear some feedback, time for me to by a pick axe and get to work.
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.
Totally agree - have been slowly doing this to my property - chemicals are just a temporary measure
I've been debating about going after the roots of the black berries I've hacked down. I guess this is the only way to get rid of them. They got over 8 feet this year and almost took over the entire back of my house. Something has to be done besides just chopping them down.
I agree that uprooting with mattocks is the only way.
I wonder, however , if a rotavator would work as the roots seem to go down and sideways rather than straight down.
Also, in your video, some residual roots were left. Do these not grow back?
I used a Rotavator when I moved into my house decades ago. Biggest mistake ever! The machine's blades chopped the roots into small pieces, and the rotation cultivated them back down into the soil - they grew like wildfire next year.
It took me 2 seasons to remove them by hand, same way as the guy in the video. Only hard graft will shift the blxxxy things, unfortunately.
@@tiggywinkle1000 I agree, the best chemical thing like roundup doesn't work, just waste time and money. Now I use my hand to pull it out, it is a painful and exhaust work. However, in the long term, it really works.
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 ........
I guess I know what i'm going to be doing for the next few weeks/months
Me too Karl 😏
They come back unless you get all of the tap root out?
Can you come over Tuesday. I can pay you to remove mine
me too! i sure wish i could hire you to work on my farm in Missouri
Thank you for showing how deep the black berry root is.
Has anyone tried stump and Vine Killer (garden center product). I saw a video with a field full of these invasive blackberry vines and this homeowner has been putting on the top of the cut vine. Apparently vine dies off but you have to add to every vine. It’s a long term process, but the homeowner has been successful. I am dealing with this problem and want to get a handle before it gets out of control. Any advise is welcome. Thanks
Rafa10690- YES I HAVE BEEN USING THE PRODUCT. “STUMP AND VINE KILLER “ BY THE COMPANY BONIDE. I CUT DOWN 44 TREES AND SHRUBS OF ALL VARIETIES ON MY PROPERTY LAST YEAR. YOU HAVE TO BRUSH THIS PRODUCT ON A FRESH CUT, OTHERWISE IT DOES NOT WORK. I USED IT ON LOW STUMPS AND TALLER ONES TOO. ALSO USED IT ON THE TROUBLESOME BLACKBERRY VINES. IT WORKS VERY WELL. WHAT I HAVE NOTICED IS THAT THE PRODUCT SEEMS TO DRY UP THESE STUMPS AND WEAKENS THEM TO WHERE THEY LITERALLY DETERIORATE AND CRUMBLE. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO ALL THE STUMPS BUT THEY ALL REMAINED DEAD AND UNABLE TO GROW BACK AGAIN. AS FOR THE STUBBORN BLACKBERRY VINES, THEY TOO HAVE REMAINED DEAD. I STILL HAVE A LARGE AREA OF THESE VINES GROWING BEHIND A GREENHOUSE. I PLAN ON BRUSHMOWING THAT WHOLE AREA DOWN, THEN BROADCAST SPRAYING THAT AREA ONCE ITS CUT WITH THE VINE KILLER BY BONIDE. I HOPE IT WORKS JUST AS WELL. GOOD LUCK.
You don't get this in the uk unfortunately
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
Try doing this with boysenberries. I did and dug down 3 feet to get every root and they are happily growing and killing out our new vineyard. There has to be a more permanent way. Cane plants grow from roots left in the soil. Just saying. No need to comment back.
I'm attempting to grow native fast growing trees to starve them for nutrients. Certain trees and plants produce anti plant growth chemicals in their roots such as juglone in black walnut trees. I'm also attempting to use fire and hot coals in small patches to super heat the ground. Another commenter also suggested a pest biological solution such as a plant disease that is obviously a risky experiment.
Also extreme shade, light, cold or heat, and or lack of water will destroy a plant. Just think about the desert. No trees
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.
Use Grazon Extra - kills it quick and is much better than previous incarnations. We have 5 acres and this method is impossible for us.
A guy told me if you cut the blackberries out and you put sod over them that they won't penetrate through never tested it
what the hell is sod
I would invite Thor over and replace his mighty hammer with a common pickaxe. and tell him to get to work. Or have him conjure up a lightning storm and burn those thorny buggers!
So I moved into a house that has a yard that has been neglected for over a year. There are giant bulbs that the bushes grow off of under the ground which the old owners put cement over. The cement didnt stop them and now they are growing like crazy and the bulbs are very deep rooted. What should I do?
@C Vicino By this point I've finished with the concrete, most of the root bulbs are gone but theres still a few left that grew over my break.
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?
Chemicals will slow down blackberry, but they very rarely ever kill it entirely.
It's a huge problem here in Australia that is left to run wild by far too many people sadly - largely because it's difficult and expensive to actually kill.
@@langdons2848 I've had to use roundup weed killer on a bramble growing in a wall whose roots I cannot pull out without taking the wall down. The rest I've managed to dig up ok. It'll be interesting to see if the one in the wall has died or if I have to take further action.
@@MrRichymil I'm sure you will kill it with enough glyphosate on just one plant, but it's not effective treating big infestations.
I personally hate glyphosate after my two dogs both ended up with the same cancer at the same time, I believe because of run off from my neighbour yard (my dogs used to play on that fence line with his dogs). So be careful of where the stuff goes.
Personally, I would just keep knocking the tops off. It can't keep, regrowing forever without leaves.
@@langdons2848 Okay I'll try that. In London it seems to be the fashion for local councils to let some brambles grow. There's a park in Brixton were there is a nice pond and a lot of the area is fenced off. The brambles have been allowed to take over and this is evident throughout the park. It must be some type of ecological idea.
@@MrRichymil that's interesting to hear. They do make good habitat for small birds etc. But here in Australia the stuff is just a disaster and the birds spread it so easily. No council could cultivate blackberry in good conscience - while they force farmers to clear it on their land.
Oh no , and I have a quarter of an acre of them....... I had a feeling you were going to dig them up...... gulp !
Other than pulling out the root. What worked best for you? crossbow, Roundup, diesel, salt vinegar mix, ect.. got a tsunami of himalayan blackberries creeping up on my property.
The next best thing is covering the crowns with black plastic for a whole growing season after the canes are cut or burned.
@@trailerparkfarmingnfilming765 could I apply this method to my allotment? I’ve just taken on a plot that is completely covered in blackberries. It would be near on impossible to dig them all out
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 had so many i had to use a mini excavator and a bulldozer belive it or not.
Living in Australia and having experienced what blackberry can do here - yes I totally believe you.
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.
Have you ever used pigs?
Jesus. Back breaker
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
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?
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 ..?
Mine comes from my neighbour. She has the garden from hell and doesn't care
SOD is grass bought in rolls. You take it of pallets and roll in down.
can you replant the blackberries somewhere else after doing this if you want?
Yes, as long as the crown is intact (and they are tough). That plant is probably growing in the park compost as we speak. All species of blackberry transplants well. They are shipped bare root when ordered through the mail. I transplant marionberry (marion blackberry) plants at the vineyard every year.
That is something definitely worth trying! I am happy you made this video, I am terribly scared to use any of those chemical weed killers in case they may hurt the neighborhood pets and including how damaging they are to the environment and they never do work.
Maybe because I'm a Washingtonian but I'm like WTF would you EVER want to do that.
But here those damn plants are a weed, we freaking hate them. Lovely blackberries fruit, but they never die.....Never! 😡😡😡 they hurt as hell too.
@@RealJudyi they are also an invasive species here in richmond.
@@RealJudyi I’m in Oregon and I am dealing with a whole field of them! I hate them more than anything! 🤬
Use a mattock not a picaxe
I haven't figured out how to keep the birds from reseeding my garden beds.
Get an outdoor cat or ducks
Blackberries send out sucker roots that travel several metres. That doesn't look like the brambles we have in Europe.
Even blackberry small leaves can be spread. You dumped leaves a little. I am worried
Yeah with a pic axe not a hand tool. Paul LOL
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…
I agree... now, can you help on my 400 acre property. 😉
The good thing is they are hard to kill, but the bad thing is that they are *hard to kill*
This nigga said he put diesel fuel on blackberrys I'm fucking doneee😂😭😭😭
Crossbow herbicide is the only thing I found that works. Very expensive though.
Thank you and God bless.
Yes it will grow back. The leaves you left behind will start to root.
Nobody should use round up or similar chemicals as they're connected to the decrease in the all important bee population
Thank you!
That was excellent when you have one little bush. But how would you go about doing that for a football size field area??? Somebody pls help. And I want to do it organically
I have the same issue. Except on a somewhat steep hillside....did you ever find the answer to your problem?
@@kymberlydawn1445 no never got my answer. I also live on a cliff so I'm having the same problem as you. I hate to say this but I've been using Crossbow chemical and it's been working for the cliff side. It's not the organic way.
@carlyyoung123, @KymberlyDawn
There are two methods, one mechanical and the other chemical.
The first thing you can do is cut the canes down with a machete, weed wacker, or hedge trimmer, and then come back with a mower to cut them as close to the ground as possible. However, you're not attacking the roots so they will resprout and come back; you're simply continuing to knock them down with repeated mowings. What this also does is keep the fruit from creating new shoots and hopefully give other plants, i.e. grasses, the opportunity to begin growing and smothering the blackberries.
The "chemical" method is to use vinegar (acetic acid). The standard grocery store vinegar is 5% and using that undiluted on a sunny day to "burn" the vegetation is very effective. You can also get a 20% vinegar which is called "horticultural vinegar" and actually considered a herbicide. Many people seem to recommend this for blackberries however ... it's capable of corroding metal and concrete, and could blind you. So be certain to wear protection, especially goggles, and use extra caution if it's a windy day.
Finally, both concentrations of vinegar will kill anything and everything it lands on, not just weeds and blackberries. The vinegar will also alter the pH of your soil if with repeated uses or if you go too aggressive. This is another reason to consider only using the 5% vinegar.
There is nothing more organic than digging them out with a mattock, as illustrated in the video.
You have a football sized area? Get cracking!
Fully agree 👍
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!
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.
Just figured it out this spring, but thanks
Thank for the video😁
Yeah mine is growing from underneath my house, a perpetual demon.
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 😭😳
😢😢😢 you could keep it
Pick and eat the blackberries with gloves so not only your removing some annyoing brambles, you get a tasty snack.
Strawberries and other berries are ok, but those "black" berries are such a nuisance. Gotta get rid of them! 😂😂😂
Anyone think of having a couple goats? they eat them
Did you ever try the 1Gallon Vinegar/1or more cups salt/dishliquid solution loads are raving about?
Will try it on my little blighters, erm, I mean , brambles. Thanks for posting, my partner agrees with you!
Nice amish vid 👌
love the little dance I'll do one too chap😉
Made the entire video!
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Brambles and Ivy ...the 2 most useless plants in existance
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.
Hillbilly Jim?
Use compare and save 41% glyphosate concentrate at $20/gal. Use more than directed. Boom.
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Lol truth
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.
Even though blackberries are food, they grow and spread out like crazy, they're very hard to tame. The bushes become a menace when they grow into your garage, or around the sides of your house, they're hard to kill and get rid of, plus the thorns are sharp and thick.