We moved into our house about 4 years ago with one young son, then had another who was born premature, which took a large amount of our time. All is good now a few years later, but our backyard is just a mess. We have a large suburban backyard, maybe 150x150, and it is filled with dandelions. I call it the "Dandylawn". I am looking for ideas for chemical free weed control. I bought a stand-up weed puller from HDepot. It works well, but the task is enormous. I mean thousands of weeds.

How about mowing the flowers off the dandelions before they go to seed? Will this at least slow them down?

We are starting around our vegetable garden and just working back with the weed puller.

Any suggestions?

Thanks