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Adopted by the Hastings Vine Squad
Adopted by the Hastings Vine Squad
September 2020
Northeast Corner of Zinsser Commuter Lot, Adopted by the Hastings Vine Squad in 2021
←This picture shows the area overgrown with porcelain berry. Nothing else can live underneath it, except some early-showing invasive plants. It looked a mess!
The Vine Squad cut back the vines that were imperiling the trees, dug up lots of viney roots and cleared the site in January 2021.
Thanks to volunteers watering the garden in the intense summer heat, it's coming along!
For more information on this site, or to join the fun!, email vinesquad@hastingsgov.org.
January 2021
April, 2021: we were greeted by a carpet of that local nemesis: lesser celandine, which we dug up.
June 2021: we planted bare-root seedlings from DEC: native witch hazel, dogwood and ninebark, tubing the witch hazel and dogwood from deer, and added some sturdy native flowers, such as violets, asters, echinacea & goldenrod plus a catmint (not native). All were donated from gardens in Hastings.
August, 2021
October, 2021
July, 2022
October, 2022
May 2023: planted wild geranium
...and golden ragwort
April: some help from Vine Squad volunteers
September, 2023
We had to water the new plants often over the summer
August, 2024
We took shifts watering throughout the summer
How we water: we fill up jugs @home
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