Good Advice for everyone to live by.
I just pull out and replace. I try to do this without my husband noticing because I don't like to hear his "comments". Of course, it's hard to do wihen the plant is hugh and leaves a big hole. But usually he doesn't notice.
Mary
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Good luck on the blackberries. I did that 5 years ago and I am still ripping....I have to maintain 5 acres, albeit 4 are turnout/pasture for my three horses, so anything that doesn't make the grade goes. That is what I LOVE about gardening! I don't cry over broken or dead plants. I get a real big kick when, for instance, last year's annuals have reseeded themselves in my flower beds. I planted no white allysium but I have 4 of my them bushing in my beds this year that border the front sidewalk. I had moss roses reseed in the bed by the satellite dish. I got behind in my vegetable beds and was pleased to see 6 Roma tomatoes with fruit in the beds that I hadn't gotten to yet, so I left them.
I had planted a "Spiced Pear" 7 years ago. The 2012-2013 drought got it, but it was hardly producing, so I cut it at ground level after it died, and replaced it with a Bartlett that is a real big producer. No harm, no foul.
I planted these two thorned blackberries on the south side of the garage. They have been warned! Hardly any fruit and sending up runners everywhere! I will go out one day soon and rip them all out. Somebody on Mid-American Gardener said that she did that and replaced them with thornless. I know that they will burn really well!!
