I got all Rambo on one of our front "lawns" as I call them, there are 3 areas facing the road that have grass, I whacked down the biggest of them with the weed whacker today, I wear an actual US military Nomex flight suit I got for $5 or free depending on how you do the math, that and rubbah boots and of course safety glasses and yer set. (I got a bunch of flight suits and a bunch of Army sox from a test pilot, no kidding, holding a garage sale here. The smallest of the flight suits fit me and I kept it, sold the rest for a profit, keeping the sox, army sox are great.) You need some kind of overall to keep the grass out.
We get some TALL grass, I'm considering whether to cut and dry some as "hay" or "straw", frankly.