0039 Strawberry
Xu Yi didn't bring anything, so he didn't even go upstairs, and just sat next to the mahjong table and waited for the others to come out.
After a while, Lin Zhengtian and Wang Jing also came out of the room one after another, but Wu Jinmin did not come out with them.
"Sister Wang, why are you so fashionable when you still have sunglasses with you?" Xu Yi asked as he looked at Wang Jing's nose with a pair of sunglasses that almost covered half of her face.
"I just got something for you Angkor, and I found it in my bag and wore it, and it was a bit dazzling on this sunny day. Wang Jing smiled. "Let's go, leave Jin Min alone, he's surfing the Internet in the house. ”
"It's okay, let's push him out for a walk in the afternoon. Lin Zhengtian glanced at the room and didn't say anything.
Wang Cuihua saw that everyone had come out, so he took a few people out and went out along the stone road between the two villas to the backyard of the villa.
The villa is still about thirty or forty meters away from the mountain behind, and is surrounded by blue bricks, but on the west side there is a small space separated by a low wall that is obviously built from the back, and I don't know what it does. There are no trees in the backyard, and the three plastic greenhouses and the aisles around the greenhouses fill the fence to the brim.
Bringing a few people to the back and handing them to Li Erzhuang, who was waiting at the door of the greenhouse, Wang Cuihua smiled at a few people, turned around and walked back, after all, this can't just let the guests eat strawberries, at this time it's almost time to prepare lunch, and there are some other things to prepare.
Li Erzhuang: "Let's freeze this winter, in order to go to market early, the strawberries planted here are cultivated in protected areas, and they are planted in the autumn with the greenhouse buckle, but for pollination, so they also put beehives, wait for them to go in, there are bees collecting honey inside, don't be nervous if you see it, as long as you don't deliberately harass, you won't be stung." Now that the weather is getting hot, I'm going to come over first, open the greenhouse and ventilate it first, so that it can be cooler inside, and you wait for me. As he spoke, he turned around and entered the shed behind him, took out a few small baskets, and gave one to one person.
The basket is not big, almost only a foot long, the two ends are slightly turned out in an arc, it looks like a delicate ingot, and the handle is also wound with a red cotton rope, which looks like it is woven with the same thickness and only the thickness of the straw.
"This is made of bamboo, cut down the bamboo, like making disposable chopsticks, draw out the same thickness of the strips, and then soak it in water to make it softer, and then use the rope to weave it, which is also a specialty in our village, basically come to pick strawberries, and finally will bring a few small baskets back, take it to buy vegetables or something durable and beautiful. Li Erzhuang said proudly.
In the past, there were several bamboo processing factories in the village, specializing in the production of bamboo chopsticks and mats, but after all, the production of these things does not have much technical content, so the pressure of competition in the same industry is increasing, there are a few old people looking at the bamboo squeezed there is moldy and deteriorating is also a waste, so they took some of the dustpans that are used instead of wicker to weave dustpans, I didn't think that the dustpans that were braided are beautiful and durable, more beautiful than the original wicker or something, and in recent years, there are more and more guests in the village to travel to pick activities, and the use of convenient bags to pack looks ugly, and printing cartons or something is troublesome, can not reflect the characteristics of the village, the kind of plastic basket or something is also easy to damageSome people therefore remembered that there was a habit of weaving waist baskets in the village before, so they tried to use the method of weaving dustpans to weave miniature waist baskets, and the finished products were beautiful and generous, comfortable and safe to hold in their hands. Unified size or something, so that in the off-season of tourism and catch up with the farming slack, organize the surplus labor force in the village to compile these things, so that a year, something like this, on average, everyone in the village can earn thousands of yuan, although not much, but now are all improved methods, the use of standardized molds, as long as a few times, even children can do this work, this money is still very easy to earn.
followed Li Erzhuang into the greenhouse, only to feel a heat wave coming.
Li Erzhuang pointed to a row of lockers next to him and said: "There is a cabinet here, if you feel hot, just put your coat in, this is okay, if you come this afternoon, it will be even hotter, and you won't be able to stay long." ”
Xu Yi saw that the strawberries in this greenhouse were planted in ridges, but this ridge was much larger than the ridge of soybeans planted in the house, and even much larger than the ridge of dry tobacco planted in the village chief's house, so the outside looked at the greenhouse was quite wide, and only six ridges of strawberries were planted inside, and there was a path in the middle of the ditch that people could walk, and not only there was a greenhouse on it, but even the ridge platform was covered with a layer of black warming mulch.
Strawberries grow out of the holes dug in the ridges, but there are no weeds, the dark green strawberry leaves are straight, interspersed with small white flowers and freshly grown green and white strawberries, and those strawberries that grow to the size of fingernails have all the branches to the ground, prostrate on the mulch, looking like clusters of red and white grapes.
"You're welcome, guys, do it yourself. Li Erzhuang beckoned a few people, and he also took a small basket and straddled it on the ridge and picked it up.
"We planted several greenhouses this year, all of which were planted by "Zhangji", which is also the cream strawberry in the market. Our family also does its duty, in addition to planting with rotten farmhouse fertilizer as a base, no chemical fertilizers and bulking agents, not to mention pesticides, this strawberry is certainly not as big as the strawberry you see in the market, but if you really take two kinds of strawberries to eat together, you can compare, my strawberry flesh here is softer and softer, the milk flavor is stronger, and it is sweeter, and you will never find a hollow one to eat. ”
"Last month, the temperature was a bit low, and some of the strawberries were not in good shape, but this month the temperature has improved, and you can see that the top one looks like a pigeon's egg, and of course the yield is less. However, although the strawberries are delicious, they are too difficult to save, and when others come to pick them, I let them pick them with a little white and not fully ripe. But let's pick some fresh food today, and pick a little raw one again before leaving, so that we can put it for two more days when we go home. ”
"Lao Li, how long has it been since you picked this shed, and it grows so much?" Lin Zhengtian couldn't help but be a little surprised when he looked at a patch of strawberries that were red and bright on the ridges.
"Hehe, it's only been two days that I haven't picked it, it's sunny these days, so the strawberries are ripe quickly, and then people come out to play, spend money and run so far, I have to leave some people who can eat it right away, so I have to pick three of the shed in turn, but this strawberry picking is at most almost after May Day, ready to remove the shed, pull out the strawberry seedlings, and then plant a late watermelon, so that the watermelon is off the market, and then plant strawberries, but next year I should change to the field where local watermelons are planted to plant strawberries。 ”
"Uncle Li, isn't this strawberry perennial, why do you have to toss it so much in exchange for it?"
"Strawberries can be infected with dozens of viruses, if you really plant them year after year, it is not a big problem to plant a little bit to eat at home, as long as the control is good, don't let the stolons grow too much, it doesn't matter if you don't absorb too many nutrients, if you plant in the field, if you plant it year after year, the strawberries will get sick, and then the fruit will be less and less, and it will be smaller and smaller, even if you are not infected with the virus, the soil strength can not keep up, and the strawberries will not grow well, or it will affect the yield, so I have to toss once a year, and I have to buy detoxified seedlings to plant, so as to ensure that the strawberries grow well, bear more, and taste good。 ”
"I always thought that it would be easy to grow this strawberry, as long as you plant it once, you don't have to worry about it anymore." ”
"Fortunately, Xiao Yi, you didn't stay at home to farm, otherwise, how much loss you would have to suffer in the first few years to learn. ”
"But no, not to mention Dr. Xu, even we have suffered a lot to learn how to plant, the first time we planted strawberries, found that only flowering did not bear fruit, and thought that this flower was divided into male and female, and then went to find someone to sell strawberry seedlings, said that he sold all male strawberries to us, made a big joke, and then then, according to the way of others, took the brush one by one, and sure enough, the strawberry blossomed and fruited, but the amount of labor is too large, you want this flower to brush over, how long does it take, and then I learned that there is a way to raise bees in it, which is labor-saving, and the strawberries that grow are not as crooked as before, by the way, you can also collect some honey, this is really to live to be old, to learn!"
Yes, just listening to you, you know that you are groping for the difficulties at that time, and it is not easy to do anything......
"Doctor Xiao Xu, don't pick the ones that are too dark and a little black, I'll come over and take a look at them when it's dark, and take them all off and throw them away. That's too much humidity in the greenhouse, the strawberries are ripe, and they hurt the water, and they can't be eaten after picking, and they will hurt their stomach. ”
"Nurse Wang, when you pick it, the stalk on the strawberry root should be left a little longer, otherwise it will be easy to touch it off, and when you wash it, the strawberries will be dirty. ”
Although he still had to point out a few people from time to time, Li Erzhuang was much more skilled in this work than a few people after all, and he quickly picked a basket of strawberries, straightened up, and waited for a few people to pick them up.
After all, there were too many ripe strawberries, although it was slow for a while, but soon, several people also picked strawberries.
Straightening his waist, Xu Yi only felt that it was extremely hot in this shed, so he looked at the basket full of bright and attractive big strawberries, and felt that the ground was covered with mulch, and the strawberries were also clean, this Li Erzhuang said that he had never used pesticides and fertilizers, so he picked one up and prepared to stuff it in his mouth.
As a result, Li Erzhuang saw it and quickly stopped: "Doctor Xiao Xu, this strawberry can't be eaten!"