Using the hoe as a method of uprooting weeds and unwanted plants is great for some plants, not so effective with others. You ever try to get rid of Blackberry Bushes without using a herbicide? It’s not easy.
Blackberry bushes are invasive, aggressive, prolific and annoyingly hardy. It can be like fighting an Octopus, one with thorn covered tentacles.
I think I would rather have blackberries than whatever you would plant instead.
Outsource the blackberry control to the G.O.A.T team
My brother operated a lawn and garden business on Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands WA...One of the invasive plants he complained the most about being a nuisance was the blackberry...
Hard to believe a fruit bearing plant like the delicious blackberry could be a nuisance, but he often resorted to burning them out...Not sure if that can be done these days...