what make a weed a weed and who decides?

Answer 1

A weed is a plant that grows where you don't want it to, and the gardener decides.

Answer 2

So after reading all these answers, it must be the person who's looking at the plant that decides. If you like it, it's not a weed.

Answer 3

A weed is a plant that generally takes advantage of disturbed soil, usually has really good reproduction skills, and is considered undesireable by a gardener.

Individual speices are weeds for some, but not others.

Answer 4

I wish I knew! My neighbors keep telling me to pull out my oxalis on the hillside because it is a weed, but it is a flower to me. And, you can even find it in nurseries and the Sunset Western Garden Book! I think they consider it a weed because they can't grow anything on their slopes!

Answer 5

Seems to me that a weed is anything that grows easily and quickly so that we have to work hard to get rid of it. The things that aren't weeds don't grow easily and we have to work hard to maintain them. It's all about making things as hard as possible on ourselves!

Answer 6

A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.

The gardener is the one to decide which are weeds and which aren't.

Answer 7

I am a horticulture technologist and a weed is any plant growing where you don't want it!!!

So grass in your flower bed - weed
Flowers in your turf - weeds

Answer 8

Try to pull it. If it comes up easily it is NOT a weed.

Answer 9

My FFA teacher said if it grows where you want it to, then it is a plant. If it grows where you DON'T want it to, it is a weed

Answer 10

It is green and growing in your lawn, let it grow. No one will know from the street.