Time: 9:30 am-11:30 am
Place: Various Locations (same locations as May)
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Help us Nix the Knotweed! Join our work party to help remove invasive knotweed from a few areas in Lyme and learn to control Knotweed on your own property. Or join the day and remove knotweed on your own property. We will tackle the knotweed using the “method of 3s”: cut knotweed down to the ground and bag the plant material; 3 chops this growing season (May, mid-July, and August 15) We will repeat this for 3 years to take care of the knotweed for good without using herbicide. The cuttings must be carefully disposed of since each little piece will regrow into a new plant. We will fully solarize all plant material in the bags to kill it, before safe disposal. For a brochure on Nix the Knotweed Method of 3s.
Or, if you wish, you may eat it. It is edible!
Bring clippers or loppers, work gloves, and your own water bottle. We’ll provide the bags!
Please register: Openspace@townlyme.org for directions and more information. Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, Friends of Whalebone Cove, and Lyme Land Trust.
Japanese knotweed is an invasive plant which crowds out native plants that pollinators and other wildlife depend upon for survival.
