Friday, 6 March 2026

Bramble removal: how to make it easier on yourself

 

"Hire someone else to do it!" (*laughs uproariously*)

OK, seriously: it's the first week of January, the middle of winter, it's been below freezing for most of the past week, I don't return to work for another week ("Yay!").

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So now is the time to look through some partly-written articles and share them with you - having finished them, obviously - so you'll excuse this one for not being seasonally relevant, although now is a good time to think about these things, and maybe to plan for getting out there and tackling the Beastly Brambles, just as soon as it gets a bit milder, and before they start growing again!

 Here's one of my Trainees, manfully working on a large bramble (or Blackberry, if you prefer, it's the same thing) which was fiendishly intertwined with the chicken wire around the garden owner's tennis court:

 ... while I did something else... no, I'm joking, I was working right alongside her, honest. I would never abandon a Trainee to do a horrible job all by themselves.

Seriously, though, I'm always being asked how to get rid of brambles - I've written about it any number of times, on this blog - just type the word brambles into the Search box, top left of the screen there, to see a selection of articles.

And one of those articles prompted a follow-up questions, which was......

 

 

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