roccoschili Chapter 326 Seedlings
Chapter 326 Seedlings
"Hmm! I haven't eaten fried pancakes with vegetables for a while. This fried pancake with meat and vegetables tastes so delicious." Hou Xiaoge held the fried pancake with vegetables in one hand and took big bites of it, while the chopsticks in the other hand kept picking up meat and vegetables from the braised meat pot.
"Nonsense, the shoe soles fried with pure vegetable oil are delicious. I wasted several kilograms of rapeseed oil!" Wang Maimiao said with a roll of his eyes.
"Uh! Mom, I'm not happy when you say that. The oldest of my siblings is only sixteen, and I'm only twelve. If I don't eat more during the busy farming season, I'll be exhausted. What will I do?" Hou Xiaoge said as he picked up the gourd ladle and took a big sip of cold water.
"Hmph! Whose kid is as tall as you at the age of twelve? Shuanniu is only seven years old, but he's taller than a ten-year-old kid. Everyone in the village praises me for raising you and the others well." Wang Maimiao said proudly.
"cut!"
Hou Xiaoge didn't want to talk nonsense with this cheap mother anymore, it was useless.
Not long after we finished our meal, several uncles came to our door carrying their farm tools.
"Uncle, Erda, aunt, have you all eaten? We just fried the pancakes tonight." Hou Xiaoge stood up and greeted them with a smile.
"Haha! What a coincidence, several of our families also fried pancakes today." Everyone said with a smile.
In fact, Hou Xiaoge was just being polite. Everyone must have eaten before coming here.
"Heiwa, what do you think we should do?" Seven or eight strong laborers asked, holding tools.
"Brother, you and my uncle-in-law should first carry out a dozen baskets of mature manure piled up in the backyard.
Erda, Second Aunt, and Little Sister, you should turn up the soil in the vegetable garden first. After spreading the manure in, spread half a palm deep of loose soil on top.
I soaked the seeds last night, and they have been germinating all day today. We can plant them directly after the ground is leveled." Hou Xiaoge instructed.
There was more labor at night, and everyone turned over the three acres of land in no time, and then spread manure on it.
The land was flat and the soil on it had been carefully broken into pieces by everyone.
"Oh! This kind of land will die if it is cultivated like this." The young aunt Hou Cuiping sighed while drinking water while sitting on the steps.
"That can't be said. If seeds are planted in this kind of soil, they will definitely grow fast.
The soil is very loose, and a deep hole is dug when people step on it, so the seedlings can definitely take root there." Uncle looked at the smooth and loose soil in the moonlight, and he was also very satisfied.
"really!"
After careful cultivation, everyone is very satisfied with the results of their labor.
"Heiwa, what's the meaning of soaking the seeds in water?" Everyone was confused when they saw Hou Xiaoge taking out the tobacco seeds from a wet cloth bag.
"This is germination, just like bean sprouts, soak the seeds for a day in advance and then cover them with cloth.
This way it is easier to germinate and grows faster after planting.
But we were short on time, and it was supposed to take two days to germinate, but I only took one day, but it didn’t affect it. ” Hou Xiaoge explained.
"That's it!"
Douya Hou Xiaoge had taught everyone how to send it before, and now everyone suddenly understood after hearing the explanation.
"We can plant now. Try to plant as densely as possible since we will have to transplant them later anyway." Hou Xiaoge asked everyone to start planting.
They are all farmers and are good at growing vegetables and wheat, so Hou Xiaoge naturally doesn't need to teach them.
Although there were only three acres of land, everyone planted it carefully, almost like Zhang Fei embroidering.
Only a little more than two mu of land was planted until all the seeds were planted.
"Mom, please bring the vegetable seeds and spread them on the remaining land. Spread them densely. When the time comes, transplant the vegetable seedlings directly after the tobacco seedlings. You can still eat vegetables in more than a month.
In the future, you can germinate the vegetables and melons in advance, then grow the seedlings, and then transplant them directly, so they will grow faster.
Usually, you can also get a few large wooden trays in the room to start raising seedlings ten days in advance. In this way, when the vegetables and fruits in the field are off the shelves, you can directly dig them up and transplant the seedlings, and eat vegetables twenty days earlier than others. "Hou Xiaoge explained to everyone the benefits of raising seedlings.
"Hey! I never thought that you, Heiwa, are so smart." Several people's eyes lit up.
"Hey! This is not something I came up with. This is agricultural knowledge, researched by university professors and experts who specialize in farming." Hou Xiaoge did not dare to take credit for it.
"Auntie! It turns out there is a university that specializes in farming. Look at us, we have been farming for half our lives, but we are still blind when we fall to the ground. We are not as good as the scholars." Everyone exclaimed.
“You should know that last winter in Chang’an, off-season cucumbers were sold for several yuan per pound!
That means we have moved to the south now, otherwise we can work together to build a greenhouse and a hothouse, so that we can grow vegetables in winter and earn more money. "Hou Xiaoge pretended to sigh.
"It turns out that cucumbers that cost several dollars a pound are grown in the greenhouse. There's really a lot of knowledge involved in growing this kind of land!" Hou Xiaoge's words shocked everyone again.
"Heiwa, didn't you say last night that you didn't plant a crop of corn? What happened?" Wang Maimiao asked at this time.
"What? We can still grow another crop of corn." Everyone looked at Hou Xiaoge.
"Yes, you can also plant another crop of corn. In early July, you can follow what you did today and breed a batch of corn seedlings at home in advance.
When the corn flour is as tall as a palm in mid-July, transplant it under the tobacco.
It just so happens that corn seedlings are afraid of excessive sunlight, so hiding them under the tobacco leaves is also beneficial to their growth.
The width of the tobacco plantation will not affect the growth of corn. When the corn grows to thigh height, the tobacco can be harvested.
After the tobacco is harvested, you can harvest corn in half a month. However, this year you can only harvest fresh corn. Harvesting corn kernels will delay planting wheat.
The main reason is that it is too late to start raising tobacco seedlings today. They should be raised half a month in advance so that we can transplant the wheat directly after it is stored in the warehouse.
This way we can plant more than half a month earlier than others. While others are still seeds, ours are already calf-high seedlings." Hou Xiaoge explained to everyone.
"Oh! What kind of land did we farm in the past? After hearing what Heiwa said, I feel like I have been a farmer for half my life in vain." Several men slapped their thighs hard.
"Cough cough!"
"Uncle, your land was well cultivated before! I say this because we have large livestock and several pigs in our houses, so we don't have to worry about manure in the land.
As the saying goes, a good harvest depends on manure.
We don't have any big animals at home. If we farm the land as I say, it will become barren in two or three years, so I don't blame you." Hou Xiaoge waved his hand to pull everyone out of their annoyance.
"Yes, in the past, poorer land had to be rotated, or there was too little manure." Several people nodded in agreement with Hou Xiaoge's statement.
"Heiwa, I heard that foreign countries and the Japanese have some fertilizer powder and chemical fertilizers. If you plant those things, the fields can produce five to six hundred kilograms of grain every year. Is this true?" asked the second cousin at the side.
"It is useful, and more than that. With fertilizer powder and chemical fertilizers, and good seeds, one acre of wheat can produce 700 kilograms.
But that thing is like drinking poison to quench thirst. If we use it for a long time, it will harm ourselves in the end." Hou Xiaoge nodded and said.
"Wow! We can harvest 700 kilograms of wheat, which is almost twice the yield from our paddy fields in a good year. It's incredible." Everyone ignored the disadvantages.
"Brother, when can you drink the poison to quench your thirst?" Shuanniu, who was standing by, also listened carefully and couldn't help but ask.