HMB Magazine March 2020

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LIFESTYLES OF THE SAN MATEO COUNTY COASTSIDE

SUMMER CAMP AND ACTIVITIES EDITION

Applejack’s celebrates

100 YEARS — MORE OR LESS

HISTORY OF LA HONDA BAR IS ELUSIVE, COLORFUL

PADDLING INTO THE

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Contents

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Features 12

Applejack’s celebrates 100 years — more or less SALOON'S HISTORY IS AS ELUSIVE AS IT IS COLORFUL

BY SARAH WRIGHT

20 30 Paddling into the waves

Making peace with coyotes

WILD ANIMALS INHABIT COASTAL TRAILS — AND NEIGHBORHOODS

BY TRIPP ROBBINS

WAVECHASER’S RACES KEEP FRIENDLY COMPETITION ALIVE AND WELL

BY AUGUST HOWELL

Departments Editor’s Note 6 Upcoming 8 Flashback 10 Summer Camps and Activities 41 Coastside Canine 50 Coastal Garden 52 Real Estate 54

Cover: Coyotes are often spotted on Coastside trails. Photo by Janet Kessler.

This page: A competitor extends his paddle in the WaveChaser race in Pillar Point Harbor.

Photo by Kent Hwang.

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Editor’s Note

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… the coyote’s after you

I

’m not sure whether to blame the great author Mark Twain, or the equally great animator Chuck Jones, but someone owes the coyote an apology.

Twain described the animal as “a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton” that was “a living, breathing allegory of want.” Jones created Wile E. Coyote, the cartoon character who devoted his life to an ill-fated effort to catch that roadrunner. (Beep! Beep!) In the years that followed, someone decided to call the nefarious characters who smuggle humans into the United States “coyotes.” Eventually, all this bad publicity colored the popular perception of these wild animals among us.

Not that that stopped us from moving into coyote habitat in the least. In fact, more and more, it seems humans and coyotes are cohabitating, often unhappily.

Freelance writer (and Menlo School newspaper adviser) Tripp Robbins explores the intersection of these wily coyotes and the rest of us in this month’s Half Moon Bay magazine. I want to personally thank Janet Kessler and Joe Devlin for their terrific photography that accompanies the piece. The spread would not have been possible without them.

Lastly, what do you know about Applejack’s in La Honda? It is one of the most beloved and well-known watering holes between Santa Cruz and San Francisco. And it turns 100 this year. We think. Unless it doesn’t. Writer Sarah Wright will explain, beginning on Page 12. Kent Hwang’s photographs will make you feel like you’re sitting right there on a bar stool.

Enjoy.

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Upcoming

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WHEN: 5 p.m., March 28 WHERE: I.D.E.S. Hall, 735 Main St., Half Moon Bay MORE INFO: abcdiabetics.org

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Music and wine pairing IndiviDuo plays Latin music that is

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Flashback

HMB could have been granted to Native Americans

By Dave Cresson

W

hen Portolá came through the Coastside (1769), the basic Spanish plan was for the native Indians to eventually own lands in the Spanish territory.

The plan, hundreds of years old, was a matter of written law, called “The Laws of the Indies.”

With only tiny exceptions, California’s natives were not granted land.

But there was a moment when the powers that be considered granting the land that includes today’s downtown Half Moon Bay to native peoples.

Over the Spanish and Mexican years, almost all California land grants were given only to Mexican citizens who were either political figures, friends, relatives or promising business operators — not to natives.

Mexico won independence from Spain (1821), and then decided to remove the old Spanish Missions that technically owned the land (“Secularization,” 1833). The law still required that land be distributed to the natives.

But the government now owned the rich land, and could not resist giving it to themselves and insiders. Natives were rarely considered.

On the Coastside, two 1839 land grants are examples. The Montara to El Granada grant went to Francisco Guerrero — a mayor of Yerba

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Buena. The Miramar to Pilarcitos Creek grant went to Tiburcio Sanchez — a majordomo of Mission Dolores ranches.

At that time, Governor Juan Bautista Alvarez recognized the problem of the mismanagement of the former missions’ assets.

He appointed an attorney general, William Hartnell, to fix it. Hartnell was capable, organized and very committed to distributing mission lands to natives.

Hartnell met with the natives (about 90 of them) who were still working with Mission Dolores at its nearby Rancho San Mateo. They told him that they were interested in land grants.

Particularly, they described the nearby coastal area, just over the mountains, between Pilarcitos and Purisima creeks, land that is today Half Moon Bay. They also told Hartnell that they wanted their current Mexican majordomo, Vicente Miramontes, to be part of their group as the foreman.

Hartnell recorded their requests and he turned his reports over to the governor for him to further decide about them. Those natives never received that grant. Instead, the land they described was granted to Candelario Miramontes, a Mexican, who had come to Yerba Buena with the Spaniards in 1805. His eldest son, Vicente Miramontes, was the same person

that the natives mentioned in discussing the land grants. He was well positioned as a junior officer in the Mexican army and held several army and government assignments.

Later, the same natives were interviewed about being granted Rancho San Mateo, but that grant was denied to them, and given instead to the governor’s secretary. Eventually, like most of the natives, they disappeared into the changing world.

Only 70 years earlier, the local native community had been swept away from its thousands of years of an unchanging, primitive age. No matter how well intentioned the Spaniards might have been, the impact of three rapid successive national takeovers (Spanish, Mexican, then American) overwhelmed the ancient native culture. Little wonder that California natives were unable to leave their tracks across the records of modern real estate ownership.

Dave Cresson is the founder of the Half Moon Bay History Association. Questions, comments or suggestions for future Flashbacks can be sent to DaveCresson38@gmail.com.

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APPLEJACK’S

CELEBRATES 100 YEARS — MORE OR LESS

HISTORY OF LA HONDA BAR IS AS ELUSIVE AS IT IS COLORFUL

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By Sarah Wright Photos by Kent Hwang

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Laurie Schoelen sketches a mural design before the painting begins.

Photo Ashlyn Rollins-Koons

Applejack's owner Kevin McEvoy stands behind the bar in the storied saloon on Highway 84 in La Honda.

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E

verybody who walks into Applejack’s Inn in La Honda makes an entrance.

The screeching floorboards wouldn’t have it any other way.

In the 1800s it was a blacksmith shop, until John “Apple Jack” Gabrielli, who owned the Old Cider Mill and an apple orchard nearby, opened Applejack’s Saloon.

Next door was the Chinese laundry, and across the street a hotel and a dance hall.

There were nine bars in town at one point in time.

It’s been 100 years since the bar started serving customers off Highway 84, but you wouldn’t know it. There’s no banner, no centennial celebration planned — just a rusting plaque out front claiming its doors first opened in 1920. But to Kevin McEvoy, the bar’s current owner, the 100-year anniversary sounds like just another La Honda myth.

“I’ve heard that,” McEvoy said. “You hear stuff.”

What he’s heard are rumors of Jesse James and the Younger Brothers offing people at the hotel across the street, of Ken Kesey testing LSD and scribbling away up the street, of the days when “the biggest grizzlies in the world” roamed the redwoods — all with Applejack’s at the center, serving up a pint. Who knows if any of it’s true, and that’s just the way the locals like it.

“It’s always been a happening spot,” said McEvoy, who lived on a ranch in Pescadero before he bought the bar in

Old photos of the well-known watering hole highlight Applejack's place in La Honda history over the last century.

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Kevin McEvoy bought the fabled Applejack's in La Honda, with its unique vintage decor, in 1990.

1990. “When I got here, this was a mecca for artists and musicians.”

He said he’s gotten a lot of flak for making changes and trying to swing a profit, getting rid of food and bottled beer and inviting only local performers with original music to save some cash.

“I took the wildness out,” McEvoy said. “I chose just to be a bar in the woods for now.”

Is it working? McEvoy said, simply, “No, but it’s gonna.”

Then McEvoy was on a new story. This one, he said, I couldn’t print. I was starting to worry if there would be any stories I could print.

Applejack’s and its patrons are filled with these stories — some more mythical than others.

McEvoy said Dan Irhazy, who owned Boots and Saddles Lodge, would sit down right in the middle of the bar and fall asleep, “and nobody would

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If walls could talk ... Applejack's owner Kevin McElroy has heard many a story of his La Honda saloon but leaves the question of their validity to those who have gone before. bother him, because he was Dan Irhazy.”

One day, he swore he heard Irhazy snoring in his usual spot, except he’d been dead a year at that point.

“I don’t believe in nothing,” McEvoy said.

“But that happened.”

Maybe the bar is haunted, or maybe it’s cursed. The owner before McEvoy, Claude McMills, had a heart attack and died on his way to Nevada, where he was planning to set up Applejack’s Two. His license plate still hangs in 18

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the bar.

That’s when McEvoy entered the scene. He was enjoying the day on its deck out back when he heard the bar was for sale. He wouldn’t say how much he bought it for, but said it was so dirt-cheap he couldn’t pass it up.

Today, Applejack’s is known as a dive bar, serving troupes of bikers and horse groups on summer weekends.

“All biker groups try to claim this bar,” McEvoy said. “But we don’t take anybody.” His

one exception is the leader of the Ghost Riders from Santa Cruz. He said the group shows up 800 riders strong, bikes parked up and down the road. “And when they leave,” McEvoy said, “thunderous.”

Locals make sure the spot remains more than a biker bar.

“It’s everything,” McEvoy said. “It’s a lumberjack, carpenter, biker — everyone bar.”

Locals told me they wished they knew more about Applejack’s history. What they do have are their memories — of horses walking

through the front door, of yearly Thanksgiving celebrations, of bobcats roaming the woods and steelhead running in the creek out back.

That’s another thing McEvoy won’t talk about. For all we know, so much has been lost to history because his predecessors wouldn’t talk either. But to him, the more likely story is the knowledge died with the people who knew it.

“Things change,” McEvoy said. “Every 30 years, it’s a whole different deal.” HALF MOON BAY

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Increasingly, coyotes cohabitate with people and their pets in the Bay Area.

Photo courtesy Janet Kessler.

Making peace with

By Tripp Robbins Photos by Joe Devlin and Janet Kessler

COYOTES WILD ANIMALS INHABIT COASTAL TRAILS, AND NEIGHBORHOODS

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e didn’t notice the big coyote until Lucy growled. Moss Beach resident Joe Devlin was used to walking his 100-pound Pyrenees mix in the dark through the fields and woods in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area space near his home. He’d seen coyotes before. He and Lucy had spent many hours on the trails in the Rancho Corral de Tierra section of the GGNRA, and they’ve seen coyotes before.

But on an evening five years ago, the coyote was different. When Lucy let out a low growl, Joe turned to where the dog was looking. “He was just sitting there about 30 or 40 feet away. He was about the size of a German shepherd, and he was just looking at us,” Devlin said. The three of them just looked at each other. Then Devlin tugged on Lucy’s leash and they moved on down the trail.

When he looked back, Devlin saw the coyote following them from about 100 feet away. Devlin and Lucy kept calm and kept walking casually away. “He followed us for a couple hundred feet, but eventually I looked back and he was gone,” Devlin said.

“I was seeing them about two or three times a week this winter, but I haven’t seen any since January,” Devlin said recently. “Sometimes I’ve walked Lucy at night, and she’d growl or just turn around at something. I’d shine the flashlight back and there’d be an eerie pair of eyes reflecting at us.”

Looking through social media, it’s not hard to find stories about coyotes on the Coastside. They can range from pretty photos to tales of heart-pounding encounters: coyotes walking down main streets in Half Moon Bay, going after seal pups at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve or eating house cats. People can get understandably emotional talking about it, especially when it involves a beloved pet.

Last May, when Don Hows was walking his Corgi, Logan, on the bluffs above Pillar Point, his heart jumped when he heard his 12-year-old dog yelp. “I was walking with a neighbor and her German shepherd. Logan was about 40 feet behind us on the trail, around a corner,” Hows said. Because Logan

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Dog owners are wise to keep their pets on a leash and an eye out for wild animals.

Photo courtesy Janet Kessler.

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People and coyotes share area trails. Photo courtesy Janet Kessler.

COYOTES AND YOU

■ Never feed coyotes (or other wild animals).

■ Around the home, don’t leave pet food outside. Keep garbage secured so they can’t get into it. Don’t leave cats out at night. Bird seed can attract rodents that attract coyotes. Install motion-sensing lights. And move yard objects around, as they dislike novelty.

■ When hiking, keep dogs on leashes. Keep alert. Keep your distance and don’t interact with coyotes.

■ In spring and summer, give them more room — back away.

■ If confronted, stare at them. Make loud noises. Wave arms to appear big. Pick up small dogs and children. Toss small rocks in their direction (to scare not harm). Back away calmly — don’t run.

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Coyotes are native to North America and often spotted along the coast. Photos courtesy Joe Devlin. and Hows know the trails well, he let the dog off the leash sometimes. “I took a couple steps back toward him, and I saw a coyote looking down at him, about two feet away,” he said. “The coyote was big, about the size of my friend’s German shepherd. It was a gorgeous creature, not scruffy or mangy at all,” he added. Hows started yelling and running toward them. The coyote turned to look at him then ran off into the brush.

Hows checked the dog out and didn’t see any wounds. It was only when he got home that he noticed a cut on Logan’s right thigh. “It was about two inches long. There wasn’t any blood, but I took him to the vet to have it checked out,” Hows said.

The vet didn’t see a need for any stitches. Then twice in the next week Hows heard of others who saw another, smaller coyote around the same location on the bluffs. “It seemed like they had a den with pups in there somewhere,” Hows said.

Both of these stories tell a lot about Canis latrans.

Native only to our continent and long associated with the American West, coyotes have been surrounded by myths. Their famous howling, their stealthy ways and their tendency to show up in areas where people live has led to a mix of fear and fascination. But despite an increase in coyote range (they’re spread over every U.S. state except Hawaii) and presence in cities and suburbs, the danger to people is not great. According to the American Veterinary Medicine Association, there are 4.7 million people bitten by dogs annually in the U.S., and 800,000 of them require medical attention. By contrast, only an average of 17 people are bitten or scratched by coyotes annually in all of North America, according to coyotecoexistence. com, and most of them involved a dog owner trying to rescue their unleashed dog. There have only been two human deaths attributed to coyotes in North America ever, and more people die from stray golf balls annually than get bit by coyotes, according to the Humane Society’s website.

A common misunderstanding is that, like deer, they have lost their natural territory to human encroachment. While that has happened in some places, it’s more common that coyotes moved into areas where humans have become established. There have been no large-scale studies of coyote populations in California, so it’s hard to say what the population is, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Terris Kasteen. Because coyotes can be nomadic, moving to where food and water resources suit them, it’s even harder to know the facts, Kasteen said.

Most often, problems with coyotes occur when someone is regularly providing food. Terris says, three years ago, residents of Rockaway Beach in Pacifica were having problems with a coyote snatching pets and acting aggressively.

"It turned out an older woman was going out and leaving piles of dog food there," says Kasteen. "When we asked her to stop, the problem went away. The coyote went back to being a coyote."

Unfortunately, humans provide coyotes with many opportunities for food. That can include anything from garbage to fruit trees to pet food left outside, according to a University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources website on coyotes. Most of the time, the majority of their diet is rodents and rabbits. But they are highly adaptable and will eat insects, songbirds, carrion — and small livestock such as chickens, sheep, goats and calves.

And cats.

House cats are about the size of rabbits, so, to a hungry coyote, a cat looks like lunch, said Janet Kessler. She lives in San Francisco and for the last 13 years has been chronicling a coyote family in the city.

She gets up before dawn every day and walks through a park near her home observing and taking photos of coyotes. (She puts great photos and commentary on Instagram @coyoteyipps and on the web at coyoteyipps.com.) “People should keep their cats

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LEARN MORE

The University of California Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources maintains a website with lots of information about coyotes. Find it at ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74135.html.

Find Janet Kessler’s site at CoyoteYipps.com.

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Often coyotes are in danger due to their proximity to human activity.

Photo courtesy Janet Kessler.

inside at night — or all day, if they can,” Kessler said.

Coyotes may see small dogs as prey too. They’re likely to see other dogs as canine competitors in their territory. This leads to confrontations, so keeping pets near their owners, on leashes, is critical to avoiding trouble, Kasteen and Kessler agree. If dog walkers encounter coyotes who confront them, it’s best to calmly back off from the situation, and if there’s a small dog or child, adults should pick them up.

It gets more complicated in spring and into summer, when coyotes have pups and are raising them. They’re likely to be defensive of their little ones. During these months, coyotes are the most likely to confront dogs and humans.

Experts say that coyotes are a natural part of the environment, so learning how to coexist with them is important.

A key to peaceful coexistence is to never feed coyotes in any way; it only teaches them unhealthy habits that can lead to problems. The Department of Fish and Wildlife has a campaign that sums it up well: “Keep Me Wild.”

Don Hows, whose dog Logan got nipped by a coyote, doesn’t bear a grudge.

“I have no animosity. They’re beautiful animals, and they deserve to have their life... We’re trying to use the same areas, the same space. I just want to make sure they don’t get too close to my dog,” he said.

Tripp Robbins teaches high school journalism and lives in Half Moon Bay. HALF MOON BAY

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s racers in the WaveChaser novice course began to venture outside of Pillar Point Harbor, the heavy fog persisted and limited visibility. Not that that stops anyone.

“We ended up paddling with the crew, but they ended up changing it midcourse and had them come back in,” Greg Gahagan explained. “Once we were out there, we couldn’t see anything.”

Gahagan, 52, would win the threemile novice race in 21 minutes, 29 seconds on his surf ski kayak. A few hours later, he stood near the boat ramp, watching the sun reflect off the water and the spray off the jetty wall.

“It looks so beautiful now,” he said. “I just want to go back out.”

That is the way it goes in outdoor sports, particularly those involving the water when the conditions can change quickly, and one must learn to adapt on the fly.

Gahagan has been paddling for nearly 10 years, but this was his first time attending the WaveChaser Paddle Series. Under the banner of the Northern California Outrigger Canoe Association, the series had its third event of the winter season at Pillar Point in Janury. With a big swell and dense fog during the morning races, the three courses were shortened by a few miles, though the conditions improved throughout the day. First Competitors gather for the WaveChaser Paddle Series held at Pillar Point Harbor in January.

Different courses are set for all levels of paddle experience.

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Racers prepare to enter the water with their surf ski kayaks at Pillar Point Harbor during the WaveChaser Paddle Series in January.

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established in 2002, it was the brainchild of some friends from the Hui Wa'a Outrigger Canoe Club in Redwood City.

WaveChaser hosts several competitions based across the Bay Area including in Richmond, Redwood City and Sausalito.

They welcome all ages and abilities on human-powered vessels, whether they be standup paddleboards, prone boards, surf skis or outriggers.

“The training, the camaraderie,” said Allison Schmidt are what drew her to the events. “It’s a great bunch of people.”

Schmidt, a 38-year-old Half Moon Bay resident, was using a standup paddleboard and used the race as training for the Davenport-Santa Cruz race. On that Saturday, racers were divided into

Juniors, under 23, Open or Masters divisions. The three courses varied in distances out of the harbor, the longest of which went west of Pillar Point. The novice race started the day at 8 a.m. and was rerouted to three miles with big surf and heavy fog blanketing the water.

In the short course, Kenny Howell was the first man out of 11 racers, finishing the five-mile course in 29:44. This year Howell, 58, a regular participant in the WaveChaser, opted to complete the waterman challenge, completing every race in a different craft. With 18 total racers in the 10mile long course, Michael McNulty, 59, won in 1:19:17. Stephanie Siaris, of San Francisco, was the first woman out

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At left, a competitor paddles an outrigger canoe in Pillar Point Harbor. Above, the WaveChaser event in Half Moon Bay includes all ages and ability levels with three courses of varying distance.

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The WaveChaser races welcome competitors on ski surf kayaks, standup paddleboards, prone boards and outriggers.

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of three other finishers, coming across in 1:36:46. Siaris, who has paddled consistently since the early 1990s, has been attending the WaveChaser races since its inception.

Though she competed in a kayak, Siaris plans her winters around the WaveChaser races as they provide a solo training ground before her outrigger canoe team races begin in the spring.

Once she got out of Pillar Point Harbor, the clouds parted and soon competitors were rolling up and down the incoming swell.

These races serve as both an outlet for paddlers’ competitive nature and a communal gathering for like-minded individuals. With three levels of difficulty,

WaveChaser races continue to get competitors returning for more.

“The short one is not technical at all, the medium one is maybe a little technical,” Siaris said of the courses.

“And then for the people who have been paddling and can handle all the big water, there’s some exciting stuff.”

“It will keep you busy for life,” she said.

Short course winner Kenny Howell is the father of author August Howell.

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Younger campers will start on our fleet of Optis, older campers can try their hand on Lasers and FJs. Campers should be able to swim and will wear a wetsuit and life jacket.

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■ Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside (BGCC) Enjoy the summer with BGCC! Who: Students entering grades 6, 7, 8 and 9 Where: Cunha Intermediate School When: 6 weekly sessions, beginning June 22, 2020; daily from 9 AM - 4 PM Select the session(s) that best fit your schedule. Each week includes: • a field trip (Wednesday) • an afternoon at the pool (Friday) •lots of fun educational and fitness activities in between, such as scavenger hunts, movie making, martial arts, cooking and nutrition, bike rides, talent show, basketball, arts and crafts, soccer, board games, capture the flag, lip synch, tug-a-war and our famous Survivor Week!

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his South African invader has charm.

Its lemon-yellow flowers nodding over emerald leaves make a lush foreground to the gray-blues of the Pacific. But any pleasure has long since changed to chagrin as carpets of Buttercup Oxalis began smothering our coastal native plants and infesting our neighborhoods.

Sadly, the weed is so entrenched along the California coast that physically removing it from the wild just isn't feasible anymore. It doesn't spread by seeds, but rather through small bulbils that develop on the stem beneath the leaves and by new bulbs that form underground along the rhizome. Each plant produces around 12 bulbils, so each year the buttercup crop significantly expands.

But take heart, home gardeners! With good timing, a bit of technique and vigilance – especially vigilance – it's possible to reduce Oxalis to manageable quantities within a few years.

One technique, if you have limited numbers of the weed, is to pull the plants gently out when they are big and lush but not yet in bloom. This is when the adult bulb is spent, and the bulbils are not yet fully developed. If you pull too early or too late, you will almost certainly leave a lot of viable bulbs and bulbils in the soil. Pulling is easiest in soft soil, so add plenty of organic material throughout the year to keep it conditioned.

A second technique, useful for larger infestations, is to exhaust the plants. Pull them up or sever their foliage repeatedly throughout the growing season until their bulbs are starved. Sever by mowing or by using a scuffle hoe or other scraping tool. Keep at it because, until the plants run out of energy, they can regrow from shoots and bulb.

Also of importance: Compost piles may not get hot enough, so bag up weeded plants and bulbs and put them in the garbage. Don't relocate or dispose of any soil where buttercup oxalis has grown as it is likely to be full of bulbs.

Tarping affected areas can be effective, but is often impractical in home gardens. Black plastic or shade cloth

should be pinned over the affected area and left for at least six months.

As for herbicides, at least two recent research studies, one on a Mediterranean island and one in the Bodega Bay coastal area have found glyphosate fairly effective.

The former study used a 3 percent concentration and the latter only .13 percent. Glyphosate trials showed both significant Oxalis reduction and rebound of native plants.

Whether glyphosate is a good option for home gardens depends on the type and severity of the infestation as well as home owner preference. Herbicides are often not practical, and to many, undesirable, in the home garden, especially as a first approach to removing invasives.

Unfortunately, there are no biocontrol agents available for buttercup oxalis at this time. Klugeana Philoxalis, a moth larva from South Africa that feeds on it, won't be available in the U.S. for years, if at all.

In the meantime, battle the buttercups. They may seem overwhelming, but consider this: They are easier to remove, nicer to look at, and more pleasant to handle than the thistles and burs that otherwise plague us.

Susan Kornfeld gardens professionally in San Mateo County. She is a University of California master gardener and can be found at the Plant Clinic at the San Mateo Arboretum the first Sunday of most months. The article was edited by Cynthia Nations, also a UC master gardener. HALF MOON BAY

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Lot Size 7,253 Built 1992 Sale Price $1,675,000

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Dramatic entry, living room and family room/kitchen with high ceilings, lots of natural light and custom finishes. Remodeled gourmet chefs kitchen with Sub-Zero Refrig and 2 refrigerated drawers, two dishwashers, Wolf Professional 6 gas burner dual range, wine cooler and sizable island with sink and seating for 4.

Master bedroom suite on the main level with built-in gas fireplace, access to backyard. Fourth bedroom is a spacious open loft with built-in shelves ideal as an office or play area. Refrigerated wine closet and charging station in 2.5-car garage. Ocean Colony is a gated community featuring two championship golf courses, tennis, indoor pool, exercise facility, spa and group classes offered.

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RealESTATE Select recent Coastside real estate transactions

Seller Christopher W. and Jacquelyn B. Harberg, trustees

Property

Buyer

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111 San Lucas Ave., Moss Beach

Willy Wen Wei and Bernadine Y.S. Wang

$1,450,000

Mary E. Wyant, trustee

10008 Pescadero Creek Road, Pescadero

PHS/SPCA

donation

Sam W. Shabatura

380 4th St., Montara

William R. Softky and Criscillia A. Benford

$1,250,000

Carl M. Durham Jr. and Kristin M. Durham

223 Vermont Ave., Moss Beach

Allison S. and Dwayne J. Williams

$1,200,000

Michael J. Mottola and Joanne M. Mahon, trustees

847 Sierra St., Moss Beach

Colomba A. Canas

$1,050,000

Calvin D. Williams, trustee, et. al

vacant land, Pescadero

Matthew K. Banhagel, et. al.

$10,000

Barbara L. Naegeli, trustee

231 Shelter Cove Dr., El Granada

Nichola Buckley and Adam White

$845,000

Mark A. Holle R. Chernis

281 Shelter Cove Dr., El Granada

Chris M. Loeswick and Samantha Vernon, et. al.

$975,000

Robert H. and Deborah P. Yanofsky, trustees

390 Burning Tree Court, Half Moon Bay

David J. Hilson and Tifany E. Yong

$1,525,000

Daniel M. and Lynda J. Gehm, trustees

425 Beach Ave., Half Moon Bay

Russell S. David and Jennifer L. Stefanski

$1,255,000

Exchange Bank, trustee

201 Miramontes Ave., Half Moon Bay

Richard and Leslie Ann Macario

$1,325,000

Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church

vacant land, Montara

Pedro M. Morales-Lopez, et. al.

$200,000

Mary Ann Bunyan, trustee

262 Nevada Ave., Moss Beach

Ryan Whelen

$900,000

Lee S. Engdahl and Anne C. Grannis, trustees

675 Lancaster Blvd., Moss Beach

Georgia B. Price and Joshua Brown

$895,000

Bret and Joynce Berner, trustees

424 Lee Ave., Half Moon Bay

Dandelion Seed Foundation

$955,000

Christopher A. and Lynette Sharman, trustees

33 Erin Lane, Half Moon Bay

Jeffrey Hausman and Rachel A. Rice

$959,000

Shaun S. Griffith and Suzanne L. Stroosma

923 Colonel Way, Half Moon Bay

Suzanna L. Stroosma

$241,000

Kevin M. Buckley

290 Grove St., Half Moon Bay

Catarina P.C. Borges

$970,000

Heidi G. and Sean R. Bennett, trustees

437 Seymour St., Half Moon Bay

Abigail Guzman Murphy and Sean C. Guzman Murphy

$1,885,000

Marilyn W. Bauer

vacant land, La Honda

David E. and Arla LeCount

$20,000

Paul and Elizabeth K. Ororke

105 Redwood Dr., La Honda

Derek Krogh

$1,125,000

Alan A. Stein and Antonella Antonini

649 Lancaster Blvd., Moss Beach

Daniel M. Canafax and Julie A. Berglund

$1,165,000

Dehring Properties LLC

150 Reef Point Road, Moss Beach

Ktenos 1 LLC

$2,700,000

William J. Weber, trustee

251 Shelter Cove Dr., El Granada

Paul and Stephanie E. Konstan

$906,000

David T. and Julic C. Woosnam, trustees

252 Amesport Landing, Half Moon Bay

Denise M. Marks, trustee

$779,000

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