How to get rid of blackberry brambles?

wi_buff_farmer · Sep 17, 2015

Have a blackberry bramble patch about a half an acre in my pasture down in a big valley... How do i get rid of them? what herbicide to you recommend? i figure to cut them down with the brush mower on the bobcat and then spray them and get the rome brush disc down in there (with dozer to step for a tractor)

Michael Soldan · Sep 17, 2015

Bush hog them and then plow them down and disc them , gather up any roots and debris for a fire !

rd 2N in mo · Sep 17, 2015

once the critters eat them and dispose of the seeds you are always playing catch up.

Jerry/MT · Sep 17, 2015

Spray them with Crossbow! I lived in Western Washington where they were as plentiful as dandelions. Crossbow will kill them and then you push them into a pile and burn them. It is not a "one shot" deal however. The seed load in the ground is usually very large and you have to keep up with it.

4520BW · Sep 17, 2015

I second the crossbow. There is also a generic version called crossroad a lot cheaper and seems to work as good!

Deutz Lover · Sep 17, 2015

I had a very large patch you are talking about. I waited until they had set fruit, but it was still green and then I mowed it. If I remember correctly the second time I mowed it like this it did not come back. The flowering and fruiting process are a major investment for the plants and when they are mowed it severely taxes their resources so that regrowing the leaves is too much and they die.

old · Sep 17, 2015

Very simple and will do a better job then any thing in the world and will help the land not hurt the land like sprays do
GOATS
Pit a few goats in the area and they will be gone fast

wi_buff_farmer · Sep 17, 2015

Does crossbow/crossroad kill milkweed, burdock, and thistle?

dzc3 · Sep 17, 2015

I got rid of a patch my pasturing it heavy with cattle. cattle knock the snot out of it. almost sorry it was gone

wolfman · Sep 17, 2015

Lime.

Weldon K · Sep 17, 2015

Agree with mowing them at fruit-forming and then again after some regrowth. I have used a sickle-bar mower and made a pass, then backed up, put the mower down and used it to drag up the cut brambles into small piles that could be pushed away with tractor loader. Also have mowed them all down and used a three point mounted chisel plow or a field cultivator just at ground level to drag them into piles at the edge of the pasture, dump them then push chisel backward with tractor and shoved the piles into the woods. Also have sprayed with 2% solution of Glyphosate, let them die and then mowed and removed the brambles. Most times there was enough grass seed in the soil for grass to re-establish without re-seeding.

Dopp Creek · Sep 17, 2015

Crossbow in the fall when the vine is carrying sugar back down to the root. Then when the ground is soft in the winter and early spring I go dig as many crowns out as I can. Biggest one I ever dug was as big as a football !

Deutz Lover · Sep 17, 2015

Weldon K,
I don't remember whether I cut them early in the season and then again, but I do remember cutting them when the fruit was about 2/3-3/4 grown. That was about 18 years ago and they have not come back. I did not have to dig them out or anything further.
I hope I am remembering this correctly.

BigMarv1085 · Sep 18, 2015

Remedy 1 ounce to the gallon of water in hand or back pack sprayer

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