In Secwepemcelecw, commonly known as Chase, B.C.

good couple of days of weed killing

So we have just experienced our first 2-3 days of weed killing weather.
we massacred  weeds manualy, mechanicaly and with flame.
Manualy it is amazing what 20 poeple with hoes can do to cultivated corn 2 mornings and all of our early corn is done. Today i assembled a flame weeder for the front of our deere tractor and with the cultivater following up on the back we should have cut the amount of broad leaf weeds down considerably.
I guess some explanations are in order. We have to kinds of weeds broad leafs, and grasses.
Broad leafs include pig weed, lambs quarter, and the allways plentyfull canola. This group of weeds are the most immediately dangerous to what we grow, they can shade out, or choke out, and obscure the plants we grow as well as depleting the surrounding soil of the same nutrients our crops need.
Grasses while not an immediate threat can become established and be hard to remove. The worst id cuch or quak grass which spreads by ryzhomes that can pentrate just about everything including potatoes, carrots and rubarb roots.
The best way to remove these is a care hand and hoe.
Last thursday i began the process of replacing our aging stirrup hoe fleet with 4 new hoes.
           these are our current hoes these are the up grade, I will tell you how it goes.
good night