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Hi All

Got my allotment today. Full of brambles and weeds, about 4ft high. what would be the best way to tackle it

Congrats on the lottie, Ian - and welcome to the vine!

Where are you? It would help peeps to help you if you went into your profile and put your (rough) location in.

With regard to your 4' weeds, there are various opinions as to whether weedkiller/digging/rotavating is the best approach for a new plot, BUT the first thing you'll have to do is chop down or strim off all the weeds so they don't flower and give you zillions more weeds to deal with next year.....

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update Sat 15/11/2008......there's gold in them thar...compost bins!......

Happy new lottie, Ian S. Welcome. I have an ongoing battle with brambles in my garden. I periodically go round with a pick axe loosening the soil around where they grow and strip out as much root as I can find, but they still regrow!

Hi Ian welcome to the vine.
Re you new lottie.
I would cut everything down to ground level then dig out all the roots.
Weed killer will not get rid of them all cooch grass roots can go down more than a foot, blackberry will grow back unless you take the roots
It's hard work but worth it in the long term.

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