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• Mulching, Handpulling and Applying herbicides is 3 ways of pulling weeds
• Weeds are plants that are considered to be undesirable detrimental and worthless.
• Hand pulling is done by manually uprooting weeds.
• Mulching is done by placing any organic covering like peanut hulls on top of the garden plot to prevent from evaporating in the soil.
• Applying herbicides chemicals that eliminates weeds.
• Chick weeds, dandelions, thistles and crab grass are example of weeds.
• When the soil is not fertile, natural or manufactured supplements called fertilizers.
• Nitrogen stimulates the development of a healthy leaf growth though the production of chlorophyll that converts sunlight to food
• phosphorous promotes the development of roots, stems, blossoms and fruit.
• Potassium assists plants in the digestion and manufactured of foods. it stimulates the needed enzymes for storing nitrogen in plants.
• Inorganic fertilizers also known as mineral or commercial fertilizer
• Organic fertilizers chemical free, manure, compost
• Broadcasting is done by spreading fertilizer over the fields
• placement pertains to the application of fertilizer in a specific location.
• Pellet application is doneby mixing tye nitrogenous
• Liquid application uses spray cans, sprinklers or furrow irrigation
• 1. 2 Kinds of Fertilizers: Organic fertilizer and Inorganic Fertilizer
• Methods of applying fertilizers :

  1. Broadcasting
  2. Placement
  3. Pellet application
  4. Liquid application