Help!!! Brambles!!!

[spingey]

We are about to put fencing up to seperate/screen off our garden from our neighbours as currently we only have the green mesh wire stuff seperating us from her.
Her garden is FULL of brambles. We have a few but I plan to cut them back burn them and then dig the roots out. Im just a bit concerned that even with the fence they are going to continue coming into our garden. It has taken a long time to get it to the point we are at now, mainly because we dont have any spare money. I dont want to fork out money for a fence and spend a whole weekend putting it up only to have her brambles invade once again.
We really need the garden sorted for the summer.....we live in a 2 bed flat and the additional space is a godsend in the good weather for the kids to have a safe space to play in. Any advice is greatly welcome. Thanks!

SBK Brushwood killer.

You can spray the foliage, and also dab it on the stumps where you have cut it back. It does not kill grass so overspray might not be such a problem as other treatments.

brilliant. I have used other products that so say kill brambles but just dented them a little but the reviews on that stuff seem to be quite good.....totally going to spray some over the fence into the neighbours garden too to keep the brambles at the edge at bay. Thanks for that!

IME unfortunately they will invade again - be vigilant for new shoots. I'd use some glyphosate as its systemic - doubt will kill something as vigourous as bramble but may inhibit it. (will kill grass and just about anything else so I'd paint it on rather than spray)

oh poo..... I wish she would just do something with her garden.....even if she just kept the brambles cut low. I really need the garden sorted for this summer. We havent enough money to go on holiday so Im relying on the garden to help me keep the kids entertained. Got lots of mini projects planned for them to do out there and ds is desperate to be able to play football out there.....I am gonna give that SBK stuff a bash anyways and if it works I could always reccomend it to my lazy neighbour. :)

glyphosate is also effective dabbed on stumps, so it may work if you cut off the encroaching suckers and put it on the ends. I don't know which is more effective used in that way, I have used both, but SBK on tree stumps as it is advertised for bigger, woody stuff.

If you're out in the garden a lot you should be able to keep an eye out for invaders. Glyphosate IIRC work well on active growth so if you see new shoots daub asap.

Oh and if you haven't already got any, tough gloves for your inital hack back!