Brambles and weeds

[IAmKerplunk]

Please help! What is the best way to stop these brambles coming back once I have got rid of them? Also, what do you suggest planting? North facing garden that gets quite a lot of sun!
Any ideas/tips please 🙏🏼

Brambles are a bit of a devil to get rid of completely. Have you had them dug right out including all the roots? Are they coming under the wall from the other side?

If you are in it for the long term I would consider not planting anything permanent back there for a couple of years so you can pounce on any regrowth. You could strip back the turf and make a bed full of annuals/bulbs/easy tall perennials that you can remove easily if the brambles sprout back.

But once it’s done does that wall face south? Are you a keen gardener or do you want something low maintenance?

Thank you for replying. Haven’t dug all the bramble roots out. They aren’t coming from under the wall. I am a novice gardener - so would like some quick wins to make it look nicer but appreciate it’s a work in progress. Yes that wall faces south. Any tips for plants?

You will need to dig them out and they will come back. Then dig them out again. It is possible to get rid of them- I did in my patch

If I were you I’d pick a different spot in the garden for quick wins while you work longer term on the brambles.

or you could put some pots or planters there whilst you are repeat digging

Is there anything I can do to reduce the chance of re growth? I have read about some chemical you can paint on them to kill them. Is it any good? Or any other tips?

Against the fence there are no brambles so can dig that over and plant there

Appreciate all responses - thank you.

I love the wall and if it were mine I would be having fruit trees against it or if hor roses and clematis. I’d then have beds in front and make cottage style borders but it all depends on what you like.

Brambles need the roots taking out as said above, I have a JML rayzer shovel that was half price and been brilliant for moving large shrubs, think it would be great for bramble roots.. Don’t use weed killer, it is unnecessary.

For this year dig out by the fence and see what you can find in garden centre. From shop by me sells packs of bedding such as cosmos for £3. Then yiu can plan for future years after that.

Get yourself some Ammonium sulphamate, if it's good enough for the National Trust it's good enough for you.

I agree with PPs, puts some pots in front of them for a while.

The problem with using a chemical strong enough to kill brambles is that it is likely to remain in the soil for some time and kill anything you plant there as well. Should you have to use a weedkiller, then Roundup becomes inert when it reaches the soil, so there would be no long-term effects.

I'd suggest digging the brambles and perennial weeds out as much as possible and then using turf or grass there for a couple of years. If they come back it will be far easier to get rid of them again that way, otherwise you'll also have to dig up and replant stuff that you've put there.

Maybe for the time being you could use some containers with summer bedding in them instead.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/wildlife-nature-conservation/5363859-weeds-have-rights-too?page=3&reply=152943358

I traced them back as far as possible, cut of the majority of it and then attacked the root area with SBK, it will need repeating probably every year, they're almost impobble to get rid of. Currently I'm fighting a battle against ground elder, again almost impossible to eradicate permanently.

My attitude to brambles is that I chop them right back every year, but we get lots of blackberries off them so they are worth having in the garden. I just plant around them. If I tried to get rid of them, I don't think that I'd succeed.