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Welders gauntlets and some loppers. If it's fiddly.
If you can access the base of the hedge then get in there and cut off near the ground (leave enough of the stems to use as a lever for grubbing out the roots).
Then pull the brambles down through the hedge rather than pulling up to the outside of the hedge.
By pulling down the brambles pull into line. If you pull up the brambles flare out and get snagged and also ruin the look of the hedge.
I would use a fencing spade to tackle the roots....
Gosh Nick, those are mighty brambles you're talking about :->
But I know now what you're saying - established big blighters have an uncanny knack of not wanting to give up their root stock. And that's what will sprout annually :-<
I think Phil's advice above is text book, word perfect methodology!
Cheers, Eugene
(ps...am surprised you prompted the answer tbh - gotta be a basic garden maintenance task at the end of the day, surely?)
pigs are excellent for bramble removal but not really suitable for under a hedge
I don't like digging out difficult weeds from amongst established planting, including hedges. You are either damaging the good plant's roots, or you'll be missing some of the weeds.
With any hedging, cut the weeds to ground level. In the spring, set canes at 45 degrees out of the hedge and train the new brambles, bindweed etc. along them. Then hit the weeds with glyphosate, using the "glove of death" technique is perfect, and job done.
that's a great idea Paul, i only mentioned the pigs as i was at a friends in Bramley recently and there was a local woodland that had sectioned off areas and had 6 pigs that were moved around the land and fenced off and they had done a cracking job of eating all the brambles and had tilled the soil beautifully. Apparently an old technique from a time before power tools.
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