I'd never use something that would poison a whole area, but spraying onto one plant, I can live with that. This is their website: http://www.roundup.com/smg/gosite/RUP/home. Mmm, as google reminds me, its glyphosate - an organophosphate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate if I'd done that research before *I* used it, I probably wouldn't have bought it - seems to be carcinogenic, sorry!Arzosah wrote:Roundup would kill the whole plant, even brambles I think - you have to let the leaves come in, and then you spray it on the leaves, maybe twice in a week? It travels into the system of the plant and kills it - it can take a while, but its efficient. You have to actually *let* it grow to a certain size, though, to ensure it has enough leaves to let you get enough poison into the plant
Decaff, I just googled "killing brambles" instead (not our forum member!!!) and this looks good http://rachel-the-gardener.blogspot.co. ... do-it.html ). There are others on there too.
HTH
thank you so much!! I will do further investigations as I can't kill the whole hedge as that plot holder planted it for the berries although I may do a bit of ahem secret murdering if all else fails. Not to "our Brambles" obviously who is nothing like the prickly hedge I am battling 
planning to put courgettes, cauliflowers and leeks into that one.I may have said this already, forgive me if I am being repetitive- commercial compost will help with soil structure and organic material but won't feed the plants for very long. It's only got feed in it for 6 weeks. You'll need to add manure, kitchen compost, Fish, Blood and Bone or similar for longer-term fertility.Decaff wrote:Worked on the third raised bed today, happy to report the onions are all shooting up bar one, three cloves of garlic have now started to have green shoots appear, the indoor ones look good also, interestingly the Lottie ones look sturdier although they are all from the same batch.
Added 3 more bags of compost to the second bed and it's now ready for planting, if the frost would just go away!
The pumpkins are absolutely huge already, they are not going to be put in a bed as they will take too much room!
We had a robin visit again today, it sat on the fork handle while I was weeding the onions!
Life is pretty good and enjoying being out in the fresh air.
No problem, all comments welcomed, good or bad! We have a good stock of fish, blood and bone, potato food and chicken manure, the compost heap is in progress. We will give another good sprinkle in a couple of weeks time to feed the plants. We do add in all the above before planting anything.featherstick wrote:I may have said this already, forgive me if I am being repetitive- commercial compost will help with soil structure and organic material but won't feed the plants for very long. It's only got feed in it for 6 weeks. You'll need to add manure, kitchen compost, Fish, Blood and Bone or similar for longer-term fertility.Decaff wrote:Worked on the third raised bed today, happy to report the onions are all shooting up bar one, three cloves of garlic have now started to have green shoots appear, the indoor ones look good also, interestingly the Lottie ones look sturdier although they are all from the same batch.
Added 3 more bags of compost to the second bed and it's now ready for planting, if the frost would just go away!
The pumpkins are absolutely huge already, they are not going to be put in a bed as they will take too much room!
We had a robin visit again today, it sat on the fork handle while I was weeding the onions!
Life is pretty good and enjoying being out in the fresh air.
) It needs absolutely no looking after, and you get a fair bit of greenery - could be worth thinking about?