Time: 8:00 am-10:00 am
Place: Whalebone Creek, Ferry Rd, Lyme CT
Contact Email: trughouse@comcast.net
Join our work party for the fourth year to remove invasive knotweed and learn to control Knotweed on your own property. We will be expanding our area of removal. Last year we planted more Han 100 native plants to replace the knotweed. We will tend to those, also. We are following the “method of 3s”: cut knotweed down to the ground and remove the plant material; 3 chops this growing season (May, mid-July, and mid-August). Don’t cut more often or it won’t weaken the extensive root system. The cuttings must be carefully disposed of since each little piece will regrow into a new plant.
We are seeing progress! The knotweed has been highly reduced.
Bring work gloves, clippers or loppers. We’ll provide the bags! Bring your own water bottle. Snacks will be provided.
Please register: (walk-ins welcome) trughouse@comcast.net
Sponsored by the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and Friends of Whalebone Cove.
Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant which crowds out native plants that pollinators and other wildlife depend upon for survival. For a brochure on Nix the Knotweed Method of 3s.
