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I've just got an allotment - they told me today (hurray! It feels like a Birthday present - I've been trying for 1.5 years and finally get one on the day before my 40th Birthday 
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It was full of 8 year old brambles which the allotment committee have cut back and used roundup to kill them. The roots, of course, are still in there and need to be got out.
Now I was thinking that I'd just use a fork or spade and dig them out, but just as the committee were leaving the site, one of them commented over his shoulder 'oh, by the way, you already know that you'll need a pick axe to hack out the roots, don't you?" He didn't appear to be joking. So ... is there a special technique to getting bramble roots out? Or is it just like I thought - you dig them out normally?
Hope someone can advise me.
Caroline
)It was full of 8 year old brambles which the allotment committee have cut back and used roundup to kill them. The roots, of course, are still in there and need to be got out.
Now I was thinking that I'd just use a fork or spade and dig them out, but just as the committee were leaving the site, one of them commented over his shoulder 'oh, by the way, you already know that you'll need a pick axe to hack out the roots, don't you?" He didn't appear to be joking. So ... is there a special technique to getting bramble roots out? Or is it just like I thought - you dig them out normally?
Hope someone can advise me.
Caroline
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