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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
