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How to get rid of Brambles? 
Anybody got some experience of eliminating Brambles - I've got some areas of land at my house in Brittany with Brambles 6feet tall!!!!!

Any ideas welcome!!!!
 
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Re: How to get rid of Brambles? 
Hi Molly

I've had plenty of experience with Brambles! OK so I've used various methods over the years all of which have worked for me.

1. Gradually cut in further and further each time with a ride on lawn mower - takes time but is easy and possibly the lazy way, but it works... eventually, well if the ground isn't too uneven.
2. Go in with a large self propelled rotavator - my ex wifes uncle lent us an old single cylinder diesel rotovator made by 'Gem' noticed one on the 'good life' on tv a couple of years ago, almost the same..... don't miss hand cranking the single cylinder diesel over in cold weather!!! But was a way of cutting through the brambles, making tracks and finally eradicating about 500m2 in an afternoon!!!
3. Spray the buggers with a systemic spray - I've got a tin of something recommended to me by a local farmer a few years ago called 'Garlon D12' haven't seen it on the shelves recently so maybe it's pretty nasty stuff - for sure the brambles, nettles and thistles hate the stuff and a little tin goes a very long way :)

Or you could just hurl yourself and ride on mower into the thick of it like my m8 Adam - he's done all sorts of things with his sit on lawn mower!!! He even cuts a path around a field about 1km long - he got well into tuning up the 11.5hp Briggs & Stratton engine to give him more speed and power for that little job!
 
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