Vegetable Basket

ks. 17

"All Galian is done I made kang!" report Asep who approached Fathan and Kamal. My uncle and nephew are resting.

"Thank God then! Yes, you rest first!" Excited Fathan who is very familiar with Asep's condition because he also felt fatigue after work.

"I'm not tired, kang! but let's not, teach me to operate the machine." argued Asep while pointing towards the culvator machine.

Got a question from his new employee, Fathan just smiled, then glanced at Kamal.

"Come, can!"take Kamal while walking ahead of Asep who is tailing behind him.

After being near the culvator machine, Kamal began to explain how to turn the machine on. Asep attentively noticed what was delivered by Kamal, a neighbor who doubles as a teacher.

"How do you understand?" Kamal asked as he looked at the young man, After he finished conveying all the knowledge he had.

"Mang Mang?"

"Yes already! try Practicing. Whatever I just taught."

Asep quickly practiced what he had just learned, his brain was smart but did not have the capital to continue school. Only once taught, He can already operate the culvator machine, making Kamal and Fathan look at each other proudly, because they have employees as smart as Asep.

"I'm continuing the job, huh, mang?" ask Asep while continuing to run the culvator machine.

"Whatever! If you're not tired, there's no extra pay!" kamal replied with a smile.

"Anyone!" Asep replied with a smile, he has started learning the merok0k,

"Ready! yes, it's the right job!" kamal replied with a smile and then he approached Fathan again.

"In the meantime, all our work is done, and the little excavations will be applied, Tan?" kamal asked while sitting next to his nephew.

"Tomorrow we make compost, we take the cattle dung we've replaced with money, we bring it here."

"Now is it?:

"Tomorrow Mang! we're not horses that constantly have to work."

"Yes already!" finally the afternoon talk was over. they resumed work in their garden.

*****

The next morning, the three people had started to move the livestock manure from the village to the garden.The three of them were always enthusiastic in working, because Fathan was indeed a very supple person, so there was no sting or fear. make Asep even though only a few days of work He already feels very comfortable.

"How do you do now, Kang?" asep asked as he looked towards the sack filled with cattle dung.

"We cut up the grass that is beside the garden, so it is easy when we mix with animal dung. exclaimed Fathan while taking the grass that he used to store next to the garden.

Although Kamal and Asep did not understand, they continued to obey and follow what Fathan did. They began to gather the grass, brought to nearby Galian. after the grass was moved then Fathan began to slice the grass to make it small.

After feeling enough, Fathan began stirring the grass with livestock manure plus a little water to mix well.

"Otherwise, Kang" challenged Asep after mixing up the dirt.

Getting such a question, Fathan took a plastic to coat the excavation soil, so that later the fertilizer did not absorb into the soil. After the excavation was coated with plastic, Fathan began to put soil into it. approximately 15 cm in size, then watering with water that has been mixed with M4 drugs. until the surface of the soil is evenly watered.

"Help me!" pinta Fathan while lifting a container that already contains livestock manure that has been mixed with grass.they both nodded then helped Fathan spill the livestock manure into the excavation. after feeling the size is the same as the land at the base. Fathan again covered the dirt with soil, after the same thickness, he began to add back animal waste, until finally the excavation was covered by the ground flat.

When finished, they finally closed the excavation with a burlap sack, then covered with plastic so that the moisture was maintained.

That day they worked to fill all excavations with compost, until the afternoon they just finished making compost.

"What is this really about, Kang ?" Asep asked who was sitting before Fathan, as usual they would rest under a fruitless guava tree.

"That's fertilizer, sep!" fathan answered while wiping the sweat that was pouring down his face.

"Emang can be fertile, if you use such fertilizer?"

"Not yet know, but according to the theory I learned it is very useful. In part we are just trying, the result or not is the creator's business." replied Fathan with a smile.

"When do we start growing vegetables?" ask Kamal.

"Later aja mang, we let the land first to be loose, now we focus on the rice fields." explained Fathan.

"What's okay is that this is left behind, the growth will grow again."

"It's okay, Mang! even if the grass will be so, we do not have to worry, because it will not take long as the beginning of land clearing." explained Fathan

"Keep now how?"

"Yes already! we go home first, after all soon will be Ashar Adhan." take Fathan while getting up and then tidying up the tools he had brought from home assisted by the two people who always follow him.

After performing asar prayers, Fathan as usual he will chat with his aunt and uncle because they have the same frequency.

"Old, not bi! the sun?"

"At least an hour less, as recommended by you"

"Yes, where?" pinta Fathan's.

"No! Aunty put it in the corner, is that enough rice for your father's rice field seeds that are so vast?"

"The same rice field that Bibi also, that's enough Bi! even mostly." explained Fathan while taking a look that contains rice.

"Times, isn't that a little Tan? we need seedlings to cover the area of your father's rice field and aunt's rice field, it's about 40 kilos, this is if the seeds of the taxicabs are at most 15 kilos."

"Let's see, Bi! I'm sure it's more." said Fathan while bringing the rice to the kitchen, he did not want to talk to his aunt. Because if you explain the same people who do not understand must be with practice. So that they can easily understand.

"If it is enough! you take care of aunt's rice fields."

"By Bi! but help the management yes, because the ability of Fathan is limited. keep asking Mamang first, later he was angry if the rice field I take care of.

"Just like that, Tan! Mamang believes in you." replied Kamal who was in the middle room. He heard the conversation of his aunt and nephew.

"Yes, then, Fathan wants to, but still needs energy."

"Please calm Tan! Mamang help." said Kamal who understood the intention spoken by his nephew.

"Yes! later the results as usual divided in two. after the capital returned." replied Sari with a smile feeling happy because her nephew was ready with what was discussed.he was sure of the ability of his nephew no doubt. after seeing and hearing what was done in his garden, he did not hesitate to leave the management of the rice field to his nephew.

"Ready Bi!" fathan answered while taking out a big bucket and then filling it with water.

"Yes already! if so, thank you!"

"Have salt?" Tanya Fathan diverted the discussion.

"So, what's it for? it's on the cook shelf!" sari replied as she continued to pay attention to What her nephew was doing.

Fathan also took salt, then added to the water he just stuffed into the bucket. After it was felt enough Fathan began to put the rice in the slap, which he had just put, into a bucket that has been filled with salt water and then store it into the bathroom, so that the immersion is not exposed to direct sunlight.

"What are you doing soaking like that?" asked Sari who had been paying attention.

"Let us know which seeds are best for our rice fields!"

"What's it like?"

"Later the best seed will be at the bottom of the bucket, it's 98% that the seed is sure the best seed.and if it's floating in the middle it's up to 85%. and the one floating on top of it must be thrown away because it is not worth being used as a seed." explained Fathan made Sari gawk, feeling amazed by the knowledge possessed by his nephew.

After finishing storing the bucket containing with soaked rice. Fathan returned to the middle of the room and they chatted like normal chatter.

*****

The next morning, before Fathan left for the rice field he moved the rice he had chosen to be sown in the sack. so that the rice grew sprouts. after the new completion he came out of his uncle's house.

"Now if we make it in the rice field we use a machine which Tan?" Kamal asked as he stared at the machines parked in his yard.Now his yard was already wearing a tent, to protect Fathan's machine. Not to be exposed to sunlight or rain.

"We're using tractors, mang!" fathan replied while pointing to a rice field tractor engine shaped like a culvator, but that distinguishes if the knife culvator can move, while the tractor only passively follows the engine.

"How to use it?"

"Just like Mang's culvator! maybe the only difference is how it works."

"Well, what do you want to bring?"

"Please bring the cassava and the garage!" said Fathan while pointing towards iron that is similar to the rice field hijackers in general. The traditional ones are made of wood.

"Waduh it looks heavy, Tan. later wait Asep yes, let it be carried!"

"What's up? early in the morning have a chat with people!" said Asep who just came with a smile.

"We must carry the Iron Rakes, the same iron shawl Sep! But we have to carry it, so it's not heavy." Obviously Kamal while pointing at the two tractors engine auxiliary devices.

Asep also approached the rake, then he tried to lift the rake, it was not as heavy as imagined.

"It doesn't have to be carried by Mang! Strong mamang do not bring the windows, let Asep bring his garage." explained Asep divided the task.

Kamal also approached the cassava, then tried to lift it was quite light when compared to his garage.he nodded in agreement with the choice given by Asep. after finishing the meeting in the courtyard of the house finally the three of them went to the rice field, Fathan brought a tractor, while Asep brought a rake and his uncle brought a cassava.

The people who saw them were just sneering, because what Fathan did with the two people helped him, according to them was just a waste of time, just a waste of money.

But the three of them only smiled, because they understood more than the one who sneered, without doing anything.