Invasive weed question 2: What's the best way to get rid of wild roses?

Same answer as the last one, except in this case I’d clip them down as low as I could. Then cover with cardboard or newspaper. Then mulch heavily.
No matter what, I’d cook those roots.

Can you get enough chopped off to regularly use a weed whacker or lawn mower along the property line?

Over the years I have worked in small areas…one at a time. I transplant rapidly growing ground cover like lemon balm, myrtle, mint, or violets to take over the patch and strangle new roots.

Unless you can afford to hire landscapers, it takes a long time and a lot of energy.

Something needs to grow everywhere. Wild roses? Poison ivy? Garlic mustard?

Here’s an area I planted with various kinds of cheap ground cover, most of which spreads rapidly.

From a slightly different angle.

I have taken pieces of this, similar to hair plugs, and jammed them in everywhere in the wild patches in fields and woods. Gradually they do spread and take over.

You needed a saw for a weed? That was some badass weed!

@chyna Wild Rose bushes can get pretty big and that one had been growing there for at least ten years. I had been reluctant to get rid of it because they can be pretty and the sparrows loved it, but it was growing in the middle of a large patch of my favorite day lilies and was crowding them out, and it had gotten so large and top heavy that it had flopped over into my neighbor’s yard so I had to take it down.

Do you have a cat you can train to make the weeds their pee spot?

WAIT! Don’t cut it yet!!! This is the perfect time to spray it with Roundup herbicide. The roses are just starting to actively grow now and that is the best time to spray.
Hit it on a nice, wind free day. Let it sit for a week while the chemical works its way down to the roots. Then cut it back. That will be permanent solution.
I had a few of these and this method worked perfectly. I cut them back with an electric pruning pole saw – (chainsaw on a stick).

^Just say NO to Monsanto

Hey @SpatzieLover I never said it was an environmentally sound solution. I said it was a permanent solution 1 oz of 18% Glyphosate (Roundup) in a gallon of water is enough to cover 400 sq feet of wild roses. 20 ft x 20 ft.
Wild roses are terribly invasive and their thorns are killers. If you are weeding your garden and get one in your hand you will remember it forever. Usually the tip of the thorn breaks off under your skin and hurts for days. After a couple of times most people demote them from friend to enemy and seek a permanent solution.