August Nix the Knotweed Day

Join our work party to learn about and remove invasive knotweed and other invasive plants, and tend the natives that have been planted in their place. Or remove knotweed in your own neighborhood. We will tend and weed Reed Landing native rain gardens, and install some more plants at Union Triangle on the corner of Rte 156 and Old Hamburg Rd. We are in our fifth year of tackling the knotweed using the “method of 3s”: cut knotweed down to the ground and remove the plant material; 3 chops each growing season (May, mid-July, and mid-August). The cuttings must be carefully disposed of since each little piece will regrow into a new plant. The knotweed has been highly reduced where we have used this method but we still have to cut back the ones that persist and new ones that come up from seeds.

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) Openspace@townlyme.org

Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, Lyme Pollinator Pathway, and Lyme Land Trust.

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.