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Ways of controlling weeds in a garden

 Regular weeding to prevent them from flowering

 Uprooting and burning then

 Spray with herbicides

 Cut and burry the weeds

 Mulching and shading the crops

Pests

A Pest is a bird, insect or animal

which destroys plants

Effects of pests to plants

They reduce the yield of the

crop

They make plants unhealthy

They lower the quality of the

crops