nalzva fa lo cicyspa — Absent of Weeds

.i ru'a mlerai fa lonu viska lo jinsa purdi poi selxa'u lo selcrepu noi kanro zi'e poi nalzva fa lo cicyspa .i lo te pruce pe lo sombo cabra cu ckaji loka sirji .i va'i sycy cu punji lo tsiju .a lo citspa fi lo dertu fi'o satci sirjga .i ja'e tcefrili fa le zu'o viska lo selcrepu poi mi'a pu sombo .i .a'o le mi gejrdauko noi se cmima lo cmatu'a la'u li xa cu simsa xa crino lijgri poi sepli fi lo dertu .i le gejrdauko purdi noi mi ca viska cu terganzu .i lo se jaursabji pe lo cabdeicerni co'a se sudga lo dertu

There are not many things that are more beautiful to me than the sight of a clean field populated with healthy crops, absent of weeds. Planting equipment is linear, putting straight and precisely spaced lines of seeds or transplants on a bed of soil. This makes it really easy to see the crop we planted. If everything goes well, then my carrots, which are six lines to a bed, can be seen as six green rows separated by a few inches of dirt. Right now, the field of carrots I am looking at is nicely spaced and the morning's irrigation is beginning to dry in spots, leaving a marbled look of browns and blacks across the clean field of carrots.

.i le ti purdi na roroi melbi .i puza da'inai ti fegli ba'u .i lo sirji noi xo'u cnici pe lo dembi cu nalselviska ri'a lo derjbe pe lo cicyspa .i le gejrdauko tsiju pu cmacai .i le dertu pu claxu lo cicyspa ca'o lenu mi'a sombo gyty .i jaursabji le tsiju pu'o lenu le purdi cu cilmo xekri .i baziku le gejrdauko cu derba'o .i ji'a le piro cicyspa tsuji go'i .i lo plixa minji ja'aru'e snada lonu catra le cicyspa .i pu le purdi cu culno bofygai loka crino

This field didn't always look beautiful. In fact, not that long ago it was an "ugly" field. The now neat lines of seeds couldn't be seen because they were overpowered by the germination of weeds. The tiny carrot seeds were there, and when we planted them in the ground, it was free of weeds. After watering the seed, the whole field was black with wet soil. Soon the carrots germinated, along with all of the weed seeds. A cultivator yielded little success in killing the weeds, and the whole field was a blanket of green.

.i gau lo pa bende be lo macnu gunka noi tcestati ku ku lo purdi cu se pruce lezu'o degycpu le cmalu srasu zei cicyspa le dertu kei ce'o zu'o falpu'i ke'a lo skuro pe lo cpumi'i kei le mu'e le gejrdauko cu cpana le gy pudycka fi'o sirvelganzu .i le purdi za'ure'u cu melbi ba'o lenu mulno pe le macnu bende .i li'a le ti pruce na prane ba'unai loka jitro be lo cicyspa .i su'a mutce zmanei lenu pruce lo cicyspa pu'o lenu sombo lo gejrdauko tsiju

An extremely talented hand crew went through the field and plucked the little grass weeds from the soil, tossing them into the furrow where tractor tires go, leaving the carrots on top of the bed in their neat lines. Behind the crew of farm workers, the field was beautiful again. For obvious reasons, this is not the preferred method of weed control. It is much better to deal with the weeds before the carrot seeds get planted.

.i mi'a puca nitcu lo pruce noi xagmau .i ja'e mi'a soltokygau le velvi'u pe le gejrdauko purdi .i le zu'o soltokygau lo purdi kei cu pruce fo le pu'u jaursabji lo pudycka kei ce'o pu'u punji lo slasi cinlybo'o fi ke'a kei ce'o pu'u le dertu cu solri glanejni kei ce'o pu'u vimcu le slasi gacri kei .i je mi'a sombo lo gejrdauko .i lo derjbe baca'o melbi

We needed a new strategy, so we solarized the rest of our carrot ground. Solarizing a field is a process where we water the beds and put a thin layer of plastic over them, then the hot sun raises the soil temperature to a level that kills the weeds and weed seeds. Next we take the plastic off and plant our carrots, and the crop that emerges is beautiful.

.i ue'i ko nelci le do tanxe poi cabjeftu .i ko je'ebzi mi'a la .instagram. jau'o @farmerthaddeus .e @farmfreshtoyou

Enjoy your boxes this week! Make sure to find us on Instagram @farmerthaddeus and @farmfreshtoyou.

.i fi'e la tadi,ys

— Thaddeus