Eli5 Why are weeds so hard to kill while desirable plants so hard to keep alive?

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Weeds grow, well, like weeds, out of the cracks of the pavement with nothing but municipal runoff to keep them alive. Meanwhile I have to work tirelessly to keep my tomato and pepper plants happy and fruitful. Why do weeds dominate a garden?

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You can think of weed a bit like antibiotic resistant bacteria. There’s been a focused effort by humanity to get rid of plants they don’t want inside their growing spaces for millenia, so the weeds that you see today are the evolutionary result of plants struggling to stay alive throughout humanity trying to kill them since they first got the idea of planting lots of tasty plants in one area.

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