Brambles - roots mainly

Hello,

We finally started!! Anyway, we have a new plot, never been grown on before but it was VERY overgrown with brambles and god knows what else, the council cleared it and we have been left to do the rest.

On Saturday we went down and my other half cleared all around the water trough - communal one but we have to keep it looking spic.

I attempted to dig up the roots and bases of what i think once were brambles, thorny twigs, roots that go on down to Oz, that kind of thing!

3 questions:

1. I cant get all of the roots out, do brambles re-grow?
2. Should we rotavator it to get down deeper and filter out as much of the roots as we can?
3. Should we just dig (maybe double, oh god no) and see what we can do?

There were loads of roots all over, bit worrying really, going back down again this weekend, so any advice greatly received!


 :?

Good luck with your plot  

You may find this thread of some use:

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=29280

Bring back Agent Orange !  

I spent a whole day last month trying to get rid of some brambles that had grown amongst my Goosegog bushes.

I was cut to bl@@dy ribbons and pricked to death.

I've tried everything, pulling them up, spot weedkilling with glyphosate,but they just keep coming back.

I can't dig them up 'cos I'll wreck the Gooseberrys roots.

They've got to be the most evil plant out there.

If I were in your position I'd nuke them with some  perennial weed killer if you don't have any qualms about using it ,but the trouble is they won't have any leaves at the moment for it to work I suppose.

So you could dig out as many roots as poss and then if you get any regrowth you could spot weedkill them and try to controll them that way ?

It is a pain. :?