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These quick-growing plants are able to spread rapidly to create dense, thorny thickets of stems, which are able to root at the tips. The plants produce blackberry fruits, which contain seeds that can grow into new plants. The tough roots are able to grow again when the stems are ...

berries to harvest. They are so darned prickly that I'm convinced it wasn't brambles surrounding the castle where Sleeping Beauty slept, but gooseberry bushes.But after the successes of my currants last summer I have relented, and three gooseberry bushes

It's blackberry time - not those machines, without which many "suits" would feel emasculated, but fat berries swollen by rain and aching for crumble. The blackberry bramble is a weed, and the perfect example of a plant simply growing in the wrong

Mow lawns regularly, gradually lowering the height of the cut as spring progressesTreat problem weeds, such as nettles and brambles, with weedkillerTidy up hedges, but before you start cutting make sure no birds are nesting in them Keep large sheets

Monty Don explains the benefits of hand weeding, demonstrating how to keep unwanted weeds at bay.all year round, particularly springMore advice on dealing with weedsHow to hoe effectivelyMaintaining a healthy lawnDealing with brambles

on removing weedsSpeedwellVinca or periwinkleBramblesHairy bitter cress

.With honey fungus, remove and destroy the entire root system, as well as the stump of the affected plants and any adjacent planting to at least 1.2m either side. You'll also need to remove the surrounding soil and replace it with fresh. With fairy rings

Stinging nettlesBramblesHairy bitter cress

further applications as necessary. If treating in summer, cut down foliage and apply weedkiller to the regrowth that appears. established borders, uncultivated groundspring, summer, autumn, winterMore advice on removing weedsDandelionFungiBramblesYarrow

rake in mid-September to remove the worst of it.all over the gardensummer to autumnMore advice on removing weedsSpeedwellVinca or periwinkleBramblesHairy bitter cress