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I said in my post that it is multi acre. The photos above aren't small yards where hand pulling is feasible.
Hand pulling is feasible on far more than small yards, particularly if the plan is a wildflower meadow rather than, say, vegetables.
Why try and create a patch of wildflowers if you're just going to spray herbicides all over it though? It defeats the purpose of the wildflowers! Unless all you care about it aesthetics, which is what this post is mocking in the first place.
You state that the native plants win as if that's a hardship. Native plants are of course going to win out, they're evolved for that location's climate. Choose native wildflowers. Help your local ecology, work with it, don't fight it. Spraying herbicide is the plant equivalent of napalm or agent orange. It costs you time, effort, money, and more than that, your environment, and in the end you don't even get what you're after.
Ignore what local businesses tell you, they're trying to get your money, use the vast wealth of information on the internet. Let nature do its thing.
If that was the case, no one would care about invasive species because the natives would outcompete with them when humans stopped intervening. It all depends on the specific plants and environment.
I have 3.3 acres.
That was my point! I refused to use herbicide to give the illusion of natural. So called wildflowers are rarely natural. If they were, they'd already outcompete local flora and wouldn't need to be planted and maintained.
I also volunteer at the local nature preserve where everything is hand done. Not even power tools are used there. I'm well aware of what's needed for hand maintenance.