Anyone have any idea what this is and how I make it stop growing? It’s coming from my neighbors behind me and keeps popping up in my gardens. It grows super fast and is viscous.
Anyone have any idea what this is and how I make it stop growing? It’s coming from my neighbors behind me and keeps popping up in my gardens. It grows super fast and is viscous.
This one just popped up under the fence from her yard. The thorns get massive.
humangeigercounter
Looks like the invasive Himalayan blackberry I just pulled yesterday! Try and get as much of the root mass out as possible when pulling. If it persists you could cut it down to the crown and paint a little glyphosphate (roundup) on the open cut with a disposable brush.
SnooStories4162
Free food! Blackberries!
surfburglar
Likely a blackberry, and if it is, shoots will never stop popping up.
mysticalwonderland
Looks like Himalayan blackberry. We have so much of it in PNW. Super invasive and grows like crazy. Rip it out
boojum78
It’s Himalayan blackberry and can be very hard to get rid of. I don’t use chemicals and just make sure to get all the roots when removing them. You want to dig them out carefully to avoid cutting the roots because even small root fragments can regrow a new plant. Now I grow the thornless version called Marionberries that are just as vigorous but make bigger berries and aren’t pokey.
SuspiciousPouter
Pull it out now, every last little root. Make it your life’s effort to destroy it now or it will eventually take over everything from every direction. One of the most invasive and hard to kill plants I’ve ever dealt with.
DrKC9N
How did you discover its viscosity?
Entreprenewber
Birds pooping out your neighbors blackberry seeds
Global_Walrus1672
Blackberry. The only way I have been able to get rid of them is to be very aggressive about pulling, cutting off every shoot that comes up for about 5 years. Had to do this at several places I’ve lived.
Objective_Low8499
Rent a goat. Best way to get rid of these blackberries. I’m going to assume you’re in the PNW so you may know someone with a goat. Source: my yard.
mugfull
Blackberry/bramble. Aggressive, fast to spread, voracious and makes delicious blackberries.
Dig deep, and make sure you get the roots to keep it away, you may find it’s a shoot-off from another plant hiding elsewhere.good luck!
ARODtheMrs
Yummy!!!! Free fruit?!!! Blackberries are so good for us!!!
Blackberry. Very tenacious. The best for natural barriers. Basically organic barbed wire that makes fruit.
derberner90
Blackberry. If you don’t want to deal with thorny brambles that come up over and over, your best bet is to sheet mulch. You lay down cardboard over the area they’re coming up, wet the cardboard, add more cardboard, wet it, and add mulch (finishing with more wetting it). Adding mulch between the layers of cardboard is fine, too, and allows more airflow to help break down the cardboard naturally over time. Basically sheet mulching will prevent any plant from sprouting in that area until you either remove the cardboard and mulch or it all breaks down. I used to remove invasive species from creeks that way at a previous job and it worked wonders on blackberry and English ivy.
spinwheels
OMG, I’ve just been battling my blackberry vines in the garden. They are so hard to deal with, popping up everywhere and training them along my fence—ugh! I wish I didn’t have them.
deathproofbich
Himalayan blackberry
Outrageous_Mine_529
Looks like a berry-Black berry/Rasberry. Maybe transplant to a better location. Near a fence.
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This is my first time posting anything and I am not sure if my pictures attached or not.
Looks like blackberry (or rubus genus of some sort). Are you in the PNW by any chance?
(Himalayan blackberry, rubus armeniacus, is very invasive and hard to remove there)
Freaking blackberry. I have the same problem and hate them.
Black berry
Blackberry. Cut it & crossbow the nub
Yep. Blackberry. My neighbor said she had her blackberry removed from her backyard and lol. No one can get rid of them.
https://preview.redd.it/i5rfqbf52j5f1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dfd5768da5ea1f95c08a7939c52b23ea903a6d2
This one just popped up under the fence from her yard. The thorns get massive.
Looks like the invasive Himalayan blackberry I just pulled yesterday! Try and get as much of the root mass out as possible when pulling. If it persists you could cut it down to the crown and paint a little glyphosphate (roundup) on the open cut with a disposable brush.
Free food! Blackberries!
Likely a blackberry, and if it is, shoots will never stop popping up.
Looks like Himalayan blackberry. We have so much of it in PNW. Super invasive and grows like crazy. Rip it out
It’s Himalayan blackberry and can be very hard to get rid of. I don’t use chemicals and just make sure to get all the roots when removing them. You want to dig them out carefully to avoid cutting the roots because even small root fragments can regrow a new plant. Now I grow the thornless version called Marionberries that are just as vigorous but make bigger berries and aren’t pokey.
Pull it out now, every last little root. Make it your life’s effort to destroy it now or it will eventually take over everything from every direction. One of the most invasive and hard to kill plants I’ve ever dealt with.
How did you discover its viscosity?
Birds pooping out your neighbors blackberry seeds
Blackberry. The only way I have been able to get rid of them is to be very aggressive about pulling, cutting off every shoot that comes up for about 5 years. Had to do this at several places I’ve lived.
Rent a goat. Best way to get rid of these blackberries. I’m going to assume you’re in the PNW so you may know someone with a goat. Source: my yard.
Blackberry/bramble. Aggressive, fast to spread, voracious and makes delicious blackberries.
Dig deep, and make sure you get the roots to keep it away, you may find it’s a shoot-off from another plant hiding elsewhere.good luck!
Yummy!!!! Free fruit?!!! Blackberries are so good for us!!!
https://preview.redd.it/4ut9txq1gj5f1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=3044deb7387c9b8086819710eaeacad87500374f
Time to get a goat 🥰
Blackberry. Very tenacious. The best for natural barriers. Basically organic barbed wire that makes fruit.
Blackberry. If you don’t want to deal with thorny brambles that come up over and over, your best bet is to sheet mulch. You lay down cardboard over the area they’re coming up, wet the cardboard, add more cardboard, wet it, and add mulch (finishing with more wetting it). Adding mulch between the layers of cardboard is fine, too, and allows more airflow to help break down the cardboard naturally over time. Basically sheet mulching will prevent any plant from sprouting in that area until you either remove the cardboard and mulch or it all breaks down. I used to remove invasive species from creeks that way at a previous job and it worked wonders on blackberry and English ivy.
OMG, I’ve just been battling my blackberry vines in the garden. They are so hard to deal with, popping up everywhere and training them along my fence—ugh! I wish I didn’t have them.
Himalayan blackberry
Looks like a berry-Black berry/Rasberry. Maybe transplant to a better location. Near a fence.