Looking to clear out my Garden of shrubs, Plants, Bushes ect ect. Some of them I have tried to cut out with a saw. others I treid to prune to death. One I put a bin on top of and worked a treat. but the others are to big for a bin
But I am finding that no matter what I do they grow back with in a couple of weeks.
What would be my best and most cost effective way of getting rid of them.?

If you can find 'bi-active roundup' itll do the trick, the roundup you get from garden centers wont cut it! this stuff is in a big bottle and will set you back 35 notes but its very effective and it will kill them down at the roots!

failing that good old hard work with a fork and spade

Don`t be lazy NJD Dig the feckers up,i had to remove a right bastard of a bush a few months ago,took all day but i got the fecker,don`t use poison it will hang around for years and you don`t know what that shite will do to your/family/pets health.

hey ratdog

the 'bi-active roundup' i suggested DOES not harm animals in any way and wont hang around in the soil either, it only kills plants that it comes in contact with ABOVE soil level. Basicaly its concentrated salt that the plant contacts with and spreads through its system eventualy killing it at the roots. pet/child/animal friendly

Digg them up one of them I cant even get into properly cos its right in the corner and and the branches are really tightly packed.
i think I will just need to take your advice ratdog and not be so darn bone idol and digg them up. but one of them may need the bi-active as its hard to even get to.

cheerz

the trick is m8,
use a a wood saw to cut through the trunk as close to the ground as you can get it, lying on ground to do this if you have to
remove bush,
now you have lots of space to dig out the stump

Sorry Poacher, Well Jerzy you can compromise with the hard to reach one But you better get digging

I am ashamed to say I have some Roundup but I am debating as to whether I should use it.

Monsanta (Behind Codex Alimentarius) is the company who make it. I will root out the thread and link it.

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I cant even get a saw into it I have tried so here is a pick so you can see what I am talking about.

That`s pretty well established Can you get hold of a chainsaw and attack it from the base?

I wish I cud get a chainsaw now you mention it ratdog but No I cant or dont know anyone with one.

get a rope round it and tie it to the back off a tractor !! thats wot i would do

peace out farmer boy

He'll need to borrow your tractor then farmer boy

Someone once told me to dissolve 25kg of road salt in to a big bucket of water....not sure if this is effective.

If only I had a tractor at hand farmer boy
Martin that was a good link, I didnt know sensiseedbank where supposedly involved in monopolising the seed industry made some good reading

fuck me m8, av got bigger bushes in ma rollin tin, get your arse on the deck, lying on your left shoulder, get a normal chippies saw in both hand and then saw like fuck till you reach the other end, pulling the bush over as ye go to stop it weighing on the saw blade...aye ah kin see u dont have much room there wi the fence n that ....short, aggressive strokes are the way froward

edit.
on second thought i might even just dig it out with cutting it ..doesn't look in the way of the spade ..and you will have something to hold onto

Does that stuff kill ivy mate ?

I'd go for a 2 pronged attack, first a soak in 3xstrength sodium chlorate , then a bit of this ...

no mate it wont kill ivy you need a special powder stuff that you put on the stump but i cant remember the name of the stuff

let my mrs look after them , theyll all be dead within a week

Tremont Salby its no my house I want to get rid of well no yet anyway looking into your other suggestion.

Or It might end out that I get my shoulder in the dirt after all.

I'm waiting on a friend getting me weed killer stuff that kills everything, it must be good as you cant put turf down for 6 months, you need to get it from a chemical company though thats why its taking him so long to get me it.

Imagine pulling that out when a cop try`s to tazer your ass

cover it in heating oil that will kill it but nothing will grow there for a long long time

farmer boy

Bacon sarnie anyone


Im currently killing a well invasive Bamboo with Glyphosate (N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) Roundup patented by the vile Monsanto who spray it on coco crops in total disregard of the people living there! (senior moment there)


But it's working , sorry ratdog but i wont be growing on the reclaimed space for 3 years but i want it back

was kinda hoping to grow there sometime so heavy chemicals isnt going to be an option. Think its just going to have to be brute force that gets it out

Think thats the best bet.

On a tangent tree hugging note anyone thats tried to remove roots from trees/shrubs/bamboo will probably realise that roots hold the surface of the earth together ?

PMSL @ farmer boy (townies just dont think the same fella)
If you are feeling lazy and cant be arsed digging it out, cut it of close to the ground drill it a few times (the more the better) fill holes with diesel and cover with black plastic.

good I dea that a drill never came to mind. Cheerz will try cutting and drilling the fucker, till I get to the roots

Petrol and a match.

Strop round the base and winch it out

Roundup is evil.

DON'T USE IT.

Don't believe the shit (From Monsanta...)about how it doesn't harm wildlife etc.. Just think - who tested that, and who paid them?

Apart from anything else you'll just end up with a dead stump that will season and become even harder to remove.

You need a mattock ideally, and a winch for larger stuff like Cambium said, but I have removed 14" Cherry Trees with just a spade, shovel and old wood saw.. Ideally you should leave them as tall as possible, for leverage.

I've looked at your (Philadelphus?) and the clump forming shrubs ARE a bugger, but they don't root too deep. Dig a trench around it about 12" away from the base, and sever any roots you come across. Dig about a foot down, then excavate underneath.

yeah that would be my advice m8

dig around it cutting through any roots ya come across and then dig underneath it

Cut the tree down to a stump. Drill into the stump in several places and squirt in diesel - do that every day for a month - that will kill the stump, including all roots. After several months pull up the stump, it will come up easily.

Diesel?

light a small fire in and around the plant

not really very good from an environmental aspect .........................

Been clearing a similarly shrubbed area the past week mate

Dig around it then get under it with a spade or fork, job done.

Old boy next door commented on how quick I got it all cleared.

Urine it will take a couple of month but it will eventually kill it

not sure if it works but try copper nails hammered in it..

Glyphosate, it's systemic, kills everything stone cold dead roots and all.

Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole!!!

Glysophate.

There is now a wealth of evidence that glyphosate requires worldwide health warnings and new regulatory review. Meanwhile, its use should be reduced to a minimum as a matter of prudent precaution.