I had a session attacking brambles this
weekend: I need to get at the fallen pear tree to start cutting it over
winter, and the prickly empire of doom was not only taking over our
garden but also encroaching over the fence and our neighbour wasn’t
happy. I tried to point out the advantages of blackcurrant jam for life
but he didn’t seem convinced, so I got out the new scythe. I really need
to figure out a new way to sort the brambles out or at least keep them
to resspectable levels, and I have a horrible feeling the only effective
thing will be putting something toxic on them: the only organic
solution I’ve heard of is keeping goats on the land, which would require
security fencing and possibly minefields: they only have to get into
the neighbours garden once. A long term solution may be to grow trees on
the steep parts of the hill to shade the brambles out, so wherever I
came across an ash tree I cleared the brambles away in the hope it
grows.
The area you can see took about two hours
to cut and which a tenth of the total. I discovered several quite large
saplings while doing this. Having brambles higher than the trees is
probably a bad sign in terms of weed control.
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