Question

What are weeds? How can we control them?

Answer 1

It is a plant that is undesirable in a particular situation. It is a plant in the wrong place. Weeds compete with crops for space, nutrients, water and light.

Methods to control weeds are:

1. Tilling before sowing of crops
2. It can be controlled using weedicides
3. manual method of removing weeds is with the help of a khurpi .

Answer 2

Weeds are the wild plant that grows in an unwanted place or where it is not wanted. They are the plant considered undesirable in a particular situation.

Following are the ways to control them:-

Use biological controls such as insects and animals,

Burn weeds,

Keep weeds from going to seed,

Block everything with plastic sheets,

Crowd out weeds with thick lawn cover,

Maintain healthy soil,

Till the garden,

Hoe the topsoil,

Mulch garden beds,

Cover the ground with landscape fabric,

etc.