"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
news:588e0fae81f2e40924f3fb03519e5294.45219@mygate .mailgate.org

With brambles near a wall or fence you just pull them out when they are
full of fruit. That way you don't get bunching with live and dead stems
making harvesting difficult. And you're left with tender new growth that
can be trained up the wall or along the fence.

If you have a thicket of live and dead stuff load it with wads of
newspaper on the next dry day and burn all the dead stuff off. All the
live stuff will recoup for friuit at the end of summer. Any garden
gloves will be OK on live stems it is the sere stuff that is hard and
brittle. It is the brittle stuff that festers.


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