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Suzanne Thompson is a hands-on conservationist and horticulturist who is personally involved in almost every aspect of gardening and land preservation in her home community of Old Lyme on the Connecticut shore. Her Covid project was an attack on an invasive plant, Japanese knotweed, that has invaded stream banks and roadsides throughout most of the continental United States. The usual response to Japanese knotweed is liberal applications of powerful herbicides; Suzanne has adopted an all-organic approach that starves the invader, ridding the landscape of this pest without chemicals. Her success has gone viral, reaching more than 68,000 followers through social media. Join our conversation today on Growing Greener.
