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Plant training or staking

This is the provision of support with a stick frame to a plant to

grow up right

Plants which are staked include: tomatoes, passion fruits.

Advantages

 Allows easy spray and pruning

 All the parts of the plants receive enough light

 Allows easy harvesting of cops and weeding

Weeds & Weeding

Weeds are unwanted plants in the garden

E.g. Elephant grass, Star grass, Couch

Grass, Finger millet weed, Black

jack, wondering Jew, sword

grass, spear grass.