I only recently found out about this practice. Makes your stomack turn.
Reminds me when my wifes aunt once told us how briliant her heighbour was. She used to spray gliposate in the fall on her fealds and garden and next year there was much fewer weeds. Then she added “well but now she cant garden any more, she has stomack cancer”… hmm
If I could clear the rhizome grass out of a big enough area I’d plant my own wheat. Low end average is 40 bushels per acre and 60 pounds per bushel, so 2400 pounds per acre. That sounds like a lot. If you averaged eating a pound of wheat products a day you could grow that amount on about a 75 foot square piece of ground. My math may be suspect. No experience but I assume that there is quite a bit of grain lost by manual cutting and threshing.
Manual cutting and harvesting is typically higher yield because you are more careful then a machine. The harvesters average about 3% drop. It used to be higher.
I would try scalping it with the mower, then hit it with an organic weed killer after it comes up again
This might work. Arbico usually has most of the organic stuff listed. You can poke through other products as well.
Just go carefully and read a lot before your spread stuff around. Certified Organic may mean the food is safe, but stuff that kills may do evil things to you, Organic or not. Clove oil made the place I used to work smell like Christmas baking for a while, but not everyone was pleased.
I’m not sure what my grasses are called but they act like bermuda grass or Johnson grass. You have to totally get all the roots out and they run deep, otherwise it will just regrow. I have covered a bed with a tarp for a whole year. No sun, no water, and it still didn’t kill it.
You probably have American Beach Grasss
Apparently, there is also a european beach grass that is invasive in california and crowding out native plants. They introduced it to save the dunes, which sound familiar, but I don’t know if they introduced it in Michigan.