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Lot clearing in the Portland metro area is not a one-size-fits-all job. The vegetation is different in Sherwood than it is along the creek corridors in Tualatin. Lake Oswego has specific tree codes that change what a clearing crew can and cannot do without permits. Tigard lots off Bull Mountain
We measured a patch in Tualatin two summers ago at the start of June. By the time we came back in early August for a scheduled job, the same patch had pushed new canes more than ten feet past where we’d marked it. The homeowner hadn’t done anything wrong. That’s
Most homeowners don’t lose their backyard to blackberry all at once. It starts in a corner, or along the fence line, or in the strip behind the shed that nobody walks through very often. By the time it’s impossible to ignore, the patch is fifteen feet across, the canes are
A homeowner in Gresham called us in late September a couple of years back. He’d noticed a patch in the back corner of his lot in April, told himself he’d deal with it in summer, and then hadn’t. By the time he called, the patch had crossed twelve feet of
We got a call last summer from a homeowner in Southwest Portland who’d been spraying Roundup on a blackberry and thistle mix in his back slope for two seasons straight. The weeds kept coming back, the slope was getting worse, and he couldn’t figure out why. When we came out,
Beaverton has a blackberry problem. The neighborhoods along the Tualatin Hills, the creek corridors off Fanno Creek and Beaverton Creek, the older lots in Cedar Hills and Raleigh Hills – Himalayan blackberry moves into all of them fast and stays. If you’ve got a patch growing through your fence or
We got a call last spring from a homeowner in Tigard whose fence had essentially disappeared. Himalayan blackberry from the vacant lot next door had been growing unchecked for three seasons, and by the time she called us the canes were twelve feet high, woven through the fence boards, and
A homeowner in Lake Oswego called us last September. She’d been cutting the same blackberry patch every summer for three years – same corner of the yard, same weekend in June, same results. By August it was back. What she didn’t know was that by cutting in the heat of
Blackberry removal cost in Portland depends on four things: coverage, density, access, and how deep the roots have gone. Blackberries took over your fence line. Or maybe they’ve spread across the back corner of the yard and you can’t even see the property line anymore. Either way, you need them
Blackberry removal in Portland almost always starts the same way you clear it, your back hurts for a week, and three months later it’s all back. You cut down the blackberry patch three months ago. Hauled all those thorny canes to the dump. Your back hurt for a week. Now
If you are dealing with a thorny patch that keeps coming back no matter how much you cut, you are not imagining it. The reason why blackberry bushes are hard to remove is not just the canes you see above ground. The real fight is happening below the soil, where
If your yard has a thorny, fast-spreading patch that seems to grow back no matter how often you cut it, there is a good chance you are dealing with Himalayan blackberry. Learning how to identify Himalayan blackberry early can save you time, money, and a lot of frustration. In this
