{"id":1987,"date":"2017-04-18T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-139\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:02:01","slug":"garden-tip-139","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-139\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #139"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eradicating blackberry vines may seem hopeless, especially if you don&#8217;t want<br \/>\nto use chemicals, but don&#8217;t give up just yet.  The Northwest Center for<br \/>\nAlternatives to Pesticides advises gardeners to cut off the top growth, dig<br \/>\nout the main root-ball, and then follow-up by mowing all new growth.<br \/>\nPlanting desirable plants to shade out the sun loving blackberries is also<br \/>\ncritical.  Read the NCAP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/ncap\/pages\/44\/attachments\/original\/1425939418\/blackberries.pdf?1425939418\">blackberry management plan<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eradicating blackberry vines may seem hopeless, especially if you don&#8217;t want to use chemicals, but don&#8217;t give up just yet. The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides advises gardeners to cut off the top growth, dig out the main root-ball, and then follow-up by mowing all new growth. Planting desirable plants to shade out the sun loving blackberries is also critical. Read the NCAP&#8217;s blackberry management plan (pdf).<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-139\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #139<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[53,239,143],"class_list":["post-1987","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-organic-gardening","keyword-rubus-discolor","keyword-weed-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}