Time: 9:30 am-11:30 am
Place: May 13-Whalebone Cove, May 14-Reed Landing, Old Hamburg Rd, Joshua Pond
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join our work party for the second year to remove invasive knotweed and learn to control Knotweed on your own property. Better yet, organize your own neighborhood Nix the Knotweed Day! We are in our second year of tackling 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 mid-August) 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.
And participate in an exciting new project! On Saturday, May 14 at Reed Landing, we will install native plants in a dry swale rain garden under the direction of New England Pollinator Gardens. Come help and Learn about how to create native garden in your own yard. This project is made possible with grant form the Eightmile River Wild & Scenic Coordinating Committee.
Bring work gloves. For knotweed removal, bring clippers or loppers. We’ll provide the bags! For garden work, bring hand edger, shovel, and/or mattock. Bring your own water bottle. Snacks will be provided.
Please register:
Friday, May 13 at Whalebone Cove: trughouse@comcast.net
Saturday, May 14 at Reed Landing and Old Hamburg Road.: Openspace@townlyme.org
Sponsored by the Town of Lyme, Lyme Pollinator Pathway, 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. For a brochure on Nix the Knotweed Method of 3s.
