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I feel sometimes that we could corner the market in brambles and nettles here, but we have just cleared a good sized patch so I have a new intake veg. plot. I don't use chemicals, and we just (well, OH did really) took the slasher to the bramble patch, and then dug the roots up with the long bar we use for making post holes for fencing. It's hard work, but it does totally eradicate the problem for a few years. We are very fortunate that there are fabulous bramble patches on our doorstep, so eradicating one or ours is not detrimental to my larder or freezer.
When they're "next door" though, it's not easy - but if you cut them back and keep cutting them back, it weakens them. As for the Japanese Knotweed, I used to eat it raw as a kid (we called it French Rhubarb). Again, just try and pull it out as soon as it grows. We have Touch-me-not Balsam here - my own fault as I thought how pretty it was and spread a few seeds in the wild part of the garden. I am now actively eradicating it . . . despite all the fun we've had over the years making the seedpods explode! You live and learn I guess . . . |
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