Neighbours brambles!

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Are driving me a bit crazy, I’m not sure what to do?

We have to cut them back almost constantly as they poke through the fence.

We are planning on installing a brand new fence but I’m scared that they are just going to break through the tiny gaps in between the fence slats again and force their way through and we will be left with brambles coming in again and a damaged brand new fence.

What would you do?

There’s zero point talking to the neighbours about it, the brambles cover almost their whole garden and are over 6 foot high in places.

Weed killer

I'm having the same struggle

I hope not, it isn’t feasible to keep spraying the fences every week and in any case, I wanted to grow a hedge in front of the new fence so wouldn’t be able to weedkill as it’ll kill my hedge!
I don’t want spiky brambles poking through my hedge
😡

WWID? Make crumble and bramble jelly.

Can you speak to ndn. Are they edible like blackberries which they are growing to eat or for the wildlife. We had to dig some up as they were wrapped around the pipes and drains.

Can you speak to ndn
No, we don’t really get on.

Are they edible like blackberries which they are growing to eat or for the wildlife
Neither, they just care.

*just don’t care.
They are wild brambles just left to their own devices.

Use a systemic weedkiller which you put on the foliage. It's evil stuff and will kill the plant right down to the roots.

I’d take down your fence and then cut it well back over into there garden and chuck all the brambles back in the garden and then put the fence back up.

My neigh has loads of brambles that go on to our drive. I cut it all right back and just chuck it on her garden. If she doesn’t like it she should cut it herself.

Are you allowed to kill neighbours plants with weedkiller without their permission. Might sound daft to ask.

Ugh, okay.
Looks like I’m going to be very busy!
What systemic weed killer would you recommend please?

No Hammy but if you put it on the leaves that poke over I’m sure it could easily end up on the roots too

Are you allowed to kill neighbours plants with weedkiller without their permission. Might sound daft to ask
They won’t care.
They literally never enter the garden.
Ever.
There’s big saplings that are going to cause some major problems for them in years to come and all sorts in there.
They just don’t care.
I wouldn’t care either if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s affecting me, encroaching onto my garden space.

There are fences that have no gaps. I like the vynil ones, seem to be maintenance free. Huge link incoming with some pics of what I am talking about.

www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00Q_4lXhKWdIc9DX0LEL_OdpHDUoQ:1593180365801&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=solid+fencing+no+gaps&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr1ZCu05_qAhWGYsAKHa_ADSYQsAR6BAgCEAE&biw=1920&bih=937

We had this in our old house but the neighbours were really unreasonable arses.

We had a privet hedge boundary and they had a garden full of brambles which kept growing through the privet and making huge holes (and taking away any privacy.)

When I was mowing the lawn they used to poke through and scratch me so I'd let it get to a certain point them have to trim overhanging brambles.

One time I heard them in their garden complaining that I had been trimming the bramble and I couldn't believe it! I think in their eyes they had a beautiful garden but the reality was they never maintained anything in it.

Like composite fencing?
Looked into it but think it’s outside of our price range.

We are planning featherboard fencing

Oh I completely understand your rage.
Do you have a photo of how bad is it?

I think this would change how you can deal with it!

Report to council and they will have to sort

I could have wrote this post, I have the exact same problem. Neighbour doesn’t care either, I spend my life cutting them back. I have started spraying them with weed killer the ones that are poking through the fence.

I don’t know if I can take a photo incase I’m identified...

The conflict last time with said neighbour was so awful I’m keen to avoid any repeats.

I’ll just say that this person literally never enters the garden, I don’t know if they even could as the brambles block a lot of the door and windows and are growing up the house.

The brambles literally cover pretty much the entire garden bar some enormous saplings that will soon grow into full grown trees (the huge, taller than the house woodland type trees) and cause all manner of problems I imagine.

The brambles are growing up and over the existing fence and any slight weak in the existing fence, like gaps between slats for example, they push their way through.

DH wants to report but I don’t want it all kicking off again

You can get a poison you put on the cut ends of brambles and it travels down to the roots to kill the whole plant.

Snip the branches your side coat the cut tips job done

See mine have the drug sheds at the bottom of the garden and in the gap between his sheds and his fence are his brambles he strims them himself if someone gets too stoned and trips on them so I just slang a bottle of weed killer over the fence one night its cured the main part of the problem

Im pretty sure he doesn't care and hasn't noticed

I have almost the opposite problem but it still gives me the rage. Both our neighbours are very keen gardeners and have plants/trees/flowers/foliage all along their borders which completely overhang/grow through our fence (Just a wire thing) we have got our very large garden layed to lawn for low maintenance but constantly have to prune their bloody foliage! If I wanted to do that I’d plant my own blinking plants. It’s just such an unbelievably selfish thing to do.

We should have words with our respective neighbours but put frankly neither of us should have to, it should be bloody obvious

Lovely fruit soon as a pp said, but then we have a small organic patch of them enclosed in a stone wall and it doesn't encroach on any neighbours.

at night time when you spray because you don't want to kill bees obviously - you lean over said fence & "accidently" spray - or perhaps remove odd fence panel or put a narrow cement strip near the fence? Says she - who pulls out or cuts down neighbours trespassing bramble & doesn't spray!