greybeard":jkpgfqxs said:
Mowing generally encourages growth. You mow your lawn every week and what happens? The grass and any weeds just grow back and probably faster than they already were. Mowing a pasture makes it look all neat and even but that's about it.
I'm pretty confident that I have never killed a single weed by mowing.
I agree. With any luck it will prevent a weed from gowing to seed, but the way they grow, they will just regrow new seed heads.
Years ago we were over grown with star thistle. I mowed and bagged all of the star thistle and burned them. 2 weeks later they were back but for inches shorter, repeated the mowing and burning deal. To make a long story short after a couple of months the star thistle instead of growing upright had pretty much become a creeping vine that was below mowing height.