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I'm looking for suggestions on a effective tool for getting rid of wild invasive roses. They are all of over our field and love to reproduce if prices are left behind in the destruction process. Basically my method currently is digging them up and stowing away every tiny piece of the plants and roots in hopes they don't come back.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Hi Kevin, the wild parts of my property would be 100% wild rose within a few years if we let them get away with it. I leave a few patches because they are a great pollinator attractant, smell good, taste good, and are pretty.

But, yes, they spread through rhizomes along with through birds eating and pooping the seed.

I use a 'garden weasel' to soften up the earth above the roots and then pull what I can out by hand. My record is a 6 foot long root!
Constant pulling of the young plants as they pop up will eventually cause orphaned root pieces to run out of energy and die off, but it takes a few seasons.
If you want to put in the effort, you could cordon off sections with a buried barrier like roofing metal or plywood.

They like it a little bit acidic so you could weaken them by sweetening the soil around their bases. Also, pick every single bloom and make rose syrup, jelly, bitters, infused salts, or just eat them in salad or as garnish.
 
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Solarization worked for large sections of our section of wild back lot 1 area at a time.
We brush hogged it down and the apply a thick tarp and over winter though fall which gives a lot of time to burn out and, as mentioned above, have the rhizomes run out of energy. You'll want to reseed the area if you are trying to control/select. We let ours go back to wild and ended up with a number of blueberry ànd raspberry which otherwise had not been there before and were able to monitor the quarter for anything we weren't looking for.
As we were doing this in stages it allowed us to monitor what was coming up. The soils was also very rich after being left under all the organic material we left in place - hauling it away might work better depending on your intentions.

I heard goats love roses. Have a friend with a couple goats? You've got a great summer/fall location. Come on down!
 
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I put chickens on a patch of roses I wanted to get rid of and they have been gradually scratching up and eating the roses. Other than that I cut them with clippers and hubby weed whacked them. Also I scattered rye among them to give the hens another incentive to munch them. I'm noticing the soil is quite sandy where they are growing so it is a challenge to get other things to compete with the roses and grow there.  
 
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