Brambles
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bill - reconsider dear boy. Both these plants are great for wildlife - berries, nectar, food for insects so you'll get birds, etc. If you really don't want it on your side snip it back once a month (chuck the trimmings over the fence ... oops, sorry ... give your neighbour his stuff back 
) as spraying from your side will not work and all you'll get is brown dead stuff which you'll have to snip anyway, and it will keep coming back. The only way to to control these is to dig the roots up (so that means working on the otherside of the fence) and maybe applying a spray there. But it will grow back hence my view that you should keep it and learn to appreciate it.
) as spraying from your side will not work and all you'll get is brown dead stuff which you'll have to snip anyway, and it will keep coming back. The only way to to control these is to dig the roots up (so that means working on the otherside of the fence) and maybe applying a spray there. But it will grow back hence my view that you should keep it and learn to appreciate it.
Not strictly true the above. You could spray with SBK brushwood killer, it contains Glyphosate and will kill the plant down to its roots on contact with its leaves.
However, I would think your neighbour would be very unhappy to find you knocking off his shrubs!
However, I would think your neighbour would be very unhappy to find you knocking off his shrubs!
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Symptoms is right. Gardening by poisons is not good, and as for using brushwood killer on brambles, I tried it, the brambles are still there. So you spend money on an ineffective poison, what's the point?
There are strict rules against spraying on other peoples land if you are not certified.
There are strict rules against spraying on other peoples land if you are not certified.
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Must be the climate where you are. I did it on mine in the late autumn, about 30m2 of them, and they have all gone now. I don't like chemicals but the option of digging them out was a non-starter for me.
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