The word is derived from oxys, a Greek word for sharp, and sorrel, its common name, is cognate with sour. Yet the etymology of oxalis has nothing to do with an ox. I always think of an ox when reading about it or hearing its name and for an obvious reason: It’s called oxalis. So far my mission to create a drought-tolerant meadow-y lawn that can handle moderate disturbance and use has been a success.There is a certain plant that has remarkable strength. The lawn was mostly green all summer and fall and only needed to be irrigated a couple times during the hot, dry months for establishment. I plan to add some Carex tumulicola (foothill sedge) this winter to continue to increase diversity. I believe this can be attributed to weakening the underground bulbs last year by pulling aboveground vegetation, and it is now competing with the natives that are establishing. Just recently, the Oxalis pes-caprae started to reemerge, however, it is clear that it is not as aggressive as last year. The War on Weeds is far from over, but I have seen tremendous progress within just one year. The weeding was most intense during the winter and spring, and was much less during the summer and fall, even with a couple mid-summer/late fall waterings. After the main seeding and planting phase, I kept a weeding schedule for the unsheet mulched areas by sweeping through the entire area and removing weeds by hand about once every 2-3 weeks (mainly to make sure the Oxalis pes-caprae did not flower, which is generally the same time that they will produce more bulbils). The container plants were nice for filling in the empty patches quickly. Slowly throughout the winter I planted the following plants from Central Coast Wilds: Agrostis pallens, Achillea millefolium (common yarrow), Phyla nodiflora (lippia), Fragaria chiloensis (Beach strawberry) and Trifolium wormskioldii. Then I waited for the seeds to germinate and kept a close eye on the weeds (Oxalis was the most aggressive). Before the rains I seeded it with yarrow, Trifolium wormskioldii (perennial clover), and Agrostis pallens (seashore bentgrass). Again, if I were to do it again, I would use a thicker layer of topsoil, between 6” and 12" seems ideal.
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Then I added about 1" of topsoil on top of the cardboard (about half was free horse manure and the other half recycled potting soil). If I were able to do it again, I would have used cardboard that didn't have holes in it and use more boxes so that there was more overlap on the edges.
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I collected some cardboard boxes for free and covered as much area as I could. In the late fall of 2018, I began my native meadow/lawn restoration project.
Ultimately, not a meadow/lawn that looked pleasant to lay on or look at. In the summer/fall it was quite ugly just a sparse cover of dry weeds providing no value to wildlife or people.
I started with an abandoned sod lawn in Capitola that had been taken over by Hypochaeris radicata (hairy cat's ear), Taraxacum officinale (dandelion), Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda grass), Oxalis pes-caprae (sourgrass, Bermuda buttercup).
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