Raspberry invasion

Nextdoor's raspberries are coming up in my shrubbery at the bottom of my garden. They've got rather a thick clump on the other side of the fence. Is there a way I can kill them without affecting my shrubs and plants? Bearing in mind I can't dig.
There's no point in moaning at them about it as they'll have a huge job digging them out and they're into growing their own food, they won't understand why I'm not pleased to have free fruit!

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I don't understand either !
But if you must control them cut them off at the base of the cane growing on your side every spring.

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Think I'd cut them off towards the base and apply a weed or brushwood killer ... or maybe something to kill the roots

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Hi Tessa I am afraid I have the same problem with next doors bamboo which come up in my runner beans

Cutting them off doesn't do much because the sucker roots go back to the main plant so all you can do is to suppress the new growth temporarily.

This isn't a solution if you can't dig, but I did try removed the soil right next to the fence and laying black weed preventing felt there held down by a layer of soil to try to stem some of the growth and this worked to some extent.

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I just cut off unwanted runners at ground level with a sharp hoe. Quick, effective and almost effortless.

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Don't apply weedkiller !
Not a good idea on edible soft fruit, you don't want to add to the problem by poisoning your neighbours !

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Get the neighbour to remove their offending plants from your garden

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Getting them to remove them is not an option I'm afraid, they're rather aloof and I'm only a tenant . I'll just have to chop them off. Would weedkiller kill their plants too? The plants are so thick they can't even reach to pick the ones near the fence.

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Yes without a doubt and probably make the fruit poisonous too !....forget weedkiller !

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Keep your hair on Malcolm, I won't use weed killer!
What amazes me is there is a large wooden fence with a concrete base all the way along it, yet the suckers still get through, they must be quite deep.
Btw, I can't eat raspberries.