Why are weeds so easy to grow, but a healthy lawn and plants take actual work?

Question

My lawn is all sorts of dry after the PNW heat wave, but the weeds sprouted up like a forest.

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Answer 1

Different plants like different amounts of rain or heat or sunlight or soil composition, and obviously they grow best when they have exactly what they want

Weeds aren’t a special kind of plant, it’s just a generic name for a plant that grows where humans don’t want it grow. The plants that grow everywhere do so because the local environment is perfect for them

As it turns out, what humans want is usually incompatible with nature. The plants we want (like lawn grass) are actually very incompatible with the natural environmental conditions. They struggle or die out frequently and need constant human intervention to survive conditions that are perfect for plants that we don’t want