Eli5: why we need to plant seeds, but in nature they just grow where they fall?
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In nature, the seeds don’t tend to fall by themselves, a lot of them, particularly seeds of fruit bearing plants, fall in a piece of fruit. As far as the plant is concerned, that fruit isn’t for us, it’s for the seed, it’s meant to either be eaten whole along with the seed to be pooped out later somewhere in a pile of manure where it can grow, or the fruit itself is supposed to rot away and mix with some surrounding material to create a bit of compost to cover the seed.
Either way, it creates conditions that we’re basically trying to replicate by planting them.
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