Mennoniteman
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Clover is also very versatile, below is an existing Clover patch that i frost seeded oats into.
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Time to evict the blackberries
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weekender21
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Clover is also very versatile, below is an existing Clover patch that i frost seeded oats into.
I may end up there eventually. In the process of increasing OM and PH and eradicating blackberries and saplings for now. I do have one “clean” plot I could probably convert.
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Jman
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Reviving an old thread as I'm looking to evict some blackberries as well.
Some background, I picked up a timber track last year and was so excited to see blackberries on the stand. Initially I just saw a few patches, so I thought they weren't that big of an issue and who doesn't like blackberries. That is until I found out they aren't limited to a few spots and those thorns cause me a horrible reaction, making poison ivy seem tolerable. Thus, this post
The track has a sweetgum issue as well, so I was going testing Hack and Squirt later this year with Garlon 4. Would that be a good herbicide for blackberries as well? I'm thinking if it is, that while I go throughout the stand with Hack and Squirt to spot treat the blackberry patches as I come across them.
Some background, I picked up a timber track last year and was so excited to see blackberries on the stand. Initially I just saw a few patches, so I thought they weren't that big of an issue and who doesn't like blackberries. That is until I found out they aren't limited to a few spots and those thorns cause me a horrible reaction, making poison ivy seem tolerable. Thus, this post
The track has a sweetgum issue as well, so I was going testing Hack and Squirt later this year with Garlon 4. Would that be a good herbicide for blackberries as well? I'm thinking if it is, that while I go throughout the stand with Hack and Squirt to spot treat the blackberry patches as I come across them.
Native Hunter
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When the last man on earth dies there will be a coyote chasing a coon through a blackberry patch and then treeing it in a sweetgum.
George
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Reviving an old thread as I'm looking to evict some blackberries as well.
Some background, I picked up a timber track last year and was so excited to see blackberries on the stand. Initially I just saw a few patches, so I thought they weren't that big of an issue and who doesn't like blackberries. That is until I found out they aren't limited to a few spots and those thorns cause me a horrible reaction, making poison ivy seem tolerable. Thus, this post
The track has a sweetgum issue as well, so I was going testing Hack and Squirt later this year with Garlon 4. Would that be a good herbicide for blackberries as well? I'm thinking if it is, that while I go throughout the stand with Hack and Squirt to spot treat the blackberry patches as I come across them.
sweetgum, imazapyr 4 sl, dead, no testing required.
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George
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12"+ sweetgum treated last summer with 4ml 10% chemical solution imazapyr 4 sl. Triclopyr 4, been there, done that, a lot of chemical and a lot of diesel being dumped in the woods while you walk in an volatized ester cloud of chemical that will make you noxious.
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Native Hunter
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Several years ago I hired a guy with a nice spray rig and sprayed blackberry in NWSGs with Remedy Ultra. It looked like an incredible kill. They were bowing their heads before the day was over, and I was blackberry free for 3 years. Then they started coming back, and now I’m back where I started.
T-Max
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I know you don’t do much burning, but would burning annually help? I know it almost impossible to know for sure, but continually killing top growth may eventually deplete its energy reserves.
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Native Hunter
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One neighbor who has NWSGs and burns says it won't get rid of them for long. They will come back from the roots. Another neighbor feels that it works better than mowing them but still doesn't eliminate them.
The mowing and spot spraying I do is working pretty well at keeping them from taking over. I still have more than I want, but it isn't an insurmountable problem.
In the meantime I’m enjoying some cobbler.
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T-Max
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Yeah, unlike some things at least they are delicious!
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MOVol
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In my experience burning during the growing season can help control but not eradicate blackberries. It normally takes me a couple of burns over a 2-3 year span to really set them back. Burning in the dormant season, which would be ideal for NWSG, seemed to help propagate blackberry on my farm. If they were in a spot I wanted to have a food plot I’d spray them.
Jman
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I can't tell by the picture the cuts you performed to the trunk. Do you just hack it every 4 - 6 inches? Looks like imazapyr 4 sl works for blackberries as well. I just need to find out what % would recommend for that, so I don't have to go into the woods with multiple herbicides
George
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I can't tell by the picture the cuts you performed to the trunk. Do you just hack it every 4 - 6 inches? Looks like imazapyr 4 sl works for blackberries as well. I just need to find out what % would recommend for that, so I don't have to go into the woods with multiple herbicides
label calls for 1ml for every 3" dbh. A little tree, 1 hack. 6" tree, 2 hacks. 9-10" tree, 3 hacks. Big tree, 4-6 hacks. Other plants call for a greatly reduced concentration. Google imazapyr herbicide label.
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Native Hunter
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I also grow double cropping blackberries at home. Below you see the floricane crop that is fruiting now and the primocane crop that is currently developing for the fall.
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