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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Survivor bias, quite literally in this case. You don’t know about the weeds that find it hard to grow in your garden, because they don’t grow there. The weeds you notice are the ones that find it easy to grow in your garden.
Meanwhile, what are the odds that the plants you want to grow in your garden *just happen* to be perfectly suited to your local environment? Unless you learn to eat the local weeds, you’re always going to be competing against the most prolific local species when you try to encourage specific plants to grow.
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