California Gardening: OK, I'm desperate now! There has got to be a solution!, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
Great story, JasperDale! ROTFLOL! That would be me, minus the high tech tools and pesticides/herbicides. Only I would have been doing a lot of cussing! Followed by me ripping out as much of the invasive pest as I could, and even louder cussing. Really you can't get rid of the stuff. It is the bane of the west coast, rather like kudzu back east. Nasty, and invasive. I just barely got a start unearthing my front side flowerbed, which is hard to see for the leaves. See the photo. FIL is going let me borrow his leaf blower, then they will go either into my bfly garden or into a compost pile.
I am hoping to unearth the rest of my bulbs and get rid of those coneflowers too. It's not that I don't like coneflowers, but I just don't want them there. Another invasive plant, but the birds like it.
The area I have covered in dichondra is pretty small about 25' x 20' feet. Really good and easy on the feet with minor maintainence, but it did take a while to get it established, and it is a waterhog. The green house is my luxury. I water most every thing with drip, so as to be conserving water. I am fortunate in that we have wells and city water.
BRB.
WIB