why do weeds grow faster than plants?

Answer 1

i was a gardener for 20yrs it may seem like that but they don,t it,s just that your always watching the weeds sorry some weeds have there own food source which doe,s help

Answer 2

firstly a weed is just a plant in the wrong place, most plants that we call weeds are usually native plants so they have a small advantage. Just think over the centuries since we started to cultivate the ground for pleasure and that means pulling up plants to leave the ones we want, so for these plants to seed they need to do it fast, so if we weed every 2 weeks, the weeds that flower in that time will be the future weeds, so you can imagine over the years they will be more likely to flower super fast, this means some weeds flower almost when they are coming up. Little b___ards!

Answer 3

What is a weed? a potato is not a weed it is a crop. Volunteer potatoes growing in a crop of wheat are weeds, a damn nuisance.Most weeds do grow in competition with your crops/ flower beds., and have to be controlled. Some fast growing crops such as borage or miscanthus grow so quickly that weeds cannot compete, and in most cases weed control is not necessary. So in that scenario, the crop grows faster than the weeds.

Answer 4

Because generally they are native to the area and can cope with the adverse conditions better

example if you put a cactus in a pond and a piece of elodea densa the pond weed will grow quicker because it is more suited to that enviroment

A tree will tall because over millenia it has evolved to get the light at the top of the forest canopy
But Ivy (hedera helix) has evolved to climb up the tree and use that to reach the light

Its all about coping with different enviroments

Answer 5

Because they are genuinely wild plants and thrive in hostile environments. Most 'flowers' are adapted by man by slight breeding interference and are not 'indigenous to their surroundings' so take a lot more nurturing and therefore do not have the genetics to grow as fast as natural 'weeds' and they are a lot more susceptible to harsh environments.

This isn't true with all flowers but on the whole I'm sure it is.

Answer 6

Generally speaking, what we consider to be desirable plants (vegetables, the flowers we plant in our yards, grass, etc.) are not native to the environment. Take grass, for instance - where in nature do you see a lawn? There are lots of wild grasses, but they grow in natural combinations with other native plants, not just as a broad stretch of one kind of grass. So our yard and garden plants are growing in an environment that isn't natural. Weeds are growing in their own home turf, so to speak - the local environment provides them with just the conditions they need for maximum growth and productivity.

Answer 7

Weeds are flora we've not found reliable makes use of for yet. I regarded out one morning this spring and spoke of slightly sparrow walk as a lot as a dandelion and positioned his foot on the stem and bend it over and p.c.. off the seeds and devour them. I actually have let poke flora boost in diverse places in my backyard for the previous 5 years after observing mockingbirds come each evening contained in the summer time choosing off the pink berries as they get ripe. Have about a dozen in my backyard this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. i favor to plant a hoop of marigolds round my tomato flora, takes up the area around the tomato shading out any weeds and also produces something that the worms and insects hate. I made a mini-backyard for my daughter one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days contained in the back backyard. Planted 5 patio tomatoes and some seeds like popcorn, pinto beans, etc. to reveal her how nutrition is grown. We planted a border of petite marigolds around the perimeters to make it particularly. No worms on those flora all summer time lengthy, no longer like those contained in the large backyard that had corn worms and massive eco-friendly worms daily. Marigold flora is often picked and dried and powdered up and positioned into hen nutrition, will boost beta carotene of their eggs.

Answer 8

They have evolved and adapted to have fewer nutritional and lower water needs relative to "domesticated" plants. Have you ever noticed weeds will grow on poor soil where nothing else will grow?

Answer 9

It happens because weeds don't need as much soon or water to sustain themselves whereas most plants do.

Answer 10

They don't is the simple answer.

Most imported "flowers" are quite often "weeds" in their country of origin.

So just enjoy a "country garden".

Remember, one man's weed is another man's flower.