0297 Digging Cellars
After planting melons, Xu Yi carried the bucket in one hand and the head on his shoulder with the other hand and walked back, always feeling that something was wrong.
He reacted when he put it down, patted his head, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Alas, not only is he becoming more and more like a farmer, but even this mentality has really begun to develop towards farmers.
This is really afraid that there is nothing on the ground to look uncomfortable, in all fairness, is it necessary for me to plant these melons in such a hurry?
Speaking of which, the melons I picked last time were piled up in the tent, seven or eight watermelons, forty or fifty melons were piled on the ground, and I didn't even think about eating one and a half!
These melons have been watered with space water again, and they have all bloomed. Tomorrow, these melons should ripen one after another, but I am afraid that I will have to harvest a lot in two or three days, how can I eat it alone.
Xu Yi thinks about it and feels that his head is big, if he continues like this, it won't be long before he can't get off his feet in that tent!
It seems that I have to build a separate storage room, and I haven't eaten up all the soy milk before, or I feel too awkward in my subconscious.
Why don't you take advantage of the moment and see if you can dig a cellar?
Thinking of doing it, Xu Yi turned around and went to get a shovel, this job is simple, even if you dig a pit and buckle a lid, you can go to the cellar, what can be difficult.
But then Xu Yi thought that according to the urine nature of this space, this cellar might not be able to be dug up, and various situations may occur if it is dug well.
If you dig it and don't use it, then your efforts will be in vain, and this thing is better to experiment first!
Xu Yi casually dug a small pit not far from the tent, which was almost a foot square and more than two feet deep. Then I brought some straw and put it at the mouth of the pit. There was no reaction to watching. He cultivated it directly on top of the straw with soil.
It's as simple as a pit, and it's already the simplest cellar. This kind of cellar is enlarged and used by every household in the village to store cabbage and radish in winter.
This kind of cellar can not be repaired in the house, basically every household is dug out of the vegetable field directly after the cabbage and radish harvest, which does not need to dig too deep, half of the deepest digging to more than one meter deep underground, people can bend over and walk in the motive type.
When the cabbage goes out to the cellar, don't go to the roots, just break off the rotten leaves on the outside to prevent them from rotting in the cellar. Even if it snows heavily on a cold day outside. The vegetables in this cellar are still fresh and tender, and can be stored all winter.
Xu Yi is going to dig such a cellar.
As for the kind of cellars that are a few meters deep, people have to go down the cellar and dig out the side holes, which are generally used for potatoes and sweet potatoes.
This depth ensures that the temperature under the cellar is relatively low, and on the other hand, it allows the carbon dioxide produced by the respiration of potatoes and sweet potatoes to accumulate underneath, reducing the amount of oxygen in the air and better inhibiting their germination.
Generally, this is the case with carbon dioxide poisoning in the cellar, and Xu Yi naturally will not choose this kind of thing, a trouble to climb up and down. Second, I really don't know if digging a cellar like this in the space will be poisoned, or don't take unnecessary risks.
Cultivate the soil. Xu Yi waited for a while, and saw that there was no abnormality there, so he was relieved.
According to the previous experience, it seems that there is no possibility of this straw being absorbed, and it seems that there is a way to dig the cellar by yourself.
Peeling off the soil layer on it and pulling out a straw to check it, Xu Yi was sure that this thing was no different from when it was first buried, and then looking at the depth under the cellar, it seemed that there was no change.
Of course, cautiously, Xu Yi still dug a pit in the ground, ready to verify it again, in order to rule out the possibility that the ground would lose its absorption capacity due to some accidental factor.
Not being able to dig a cellar is not a big deal, after all, most things are not too much of a problem to store in the open, except for things like potatoes and vegetables that are best kept out of the dark.
If the ability to decompose space disappears, it will be too big a blow to yourself.
There are no microorganisms in the space to survive, and if the ability to decompose is gone, it is a problem to deal with those stubbles and other things, do you really collect them again and burn them in a fire?
If this is the case, I will find a way to get some earthworms or something to try to see if the earthworms can handle these things, if not, then I am afraid that there is only one way to choose.
Xu Yi dug a pit next to him, threw down all the broken straw that was left just now, and directly planted soil on it.
After a while, Xu Yi saw that the layer of soil on the top of the pit collapsed suddenly.
Smiling, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief, fortunately it was not as bad as he imagined, at least the decomposition ability of this land is still there, and this function is much more important than being able to dig cellars.
Digging a cellar outside can better provide protection from light and control the temperature......
But in this space, I'm afraid that digging a cellar has only one function left - to avoid light.
Or maybe a little moisturizing?
Xu Yi looked up at the bamboo poles and wood that had been erected next to him, and then looked at the cherries that were still fresh under the cherry tree, and added this one with some hesitation.
As for whether this function is really available, Xu Yi is not sure, so he can only rely on it to be verified slowly in the future.
The two pits were about the same size and depth, and the things were the same, Xu Yi couldn't help but wonder why the straw used to build the cellar would not be absorbed, or if it had anything to do with whether a gap was formed below.
In order to verify this, Xu Yi took those melon seedlings, potato seedlings and other things, continued to dig pits, and constantly filled them with things for repeated experiments, and finally came to a conclusion:
As long as a pit is formed in the ground at least 20 centimeters square, then what is padded on top of the pit will not be absorbed.
Whether it's a bucket and a bucket in the ground, or a hole of this size in the middle of a random ball of grass, the thing won't be absorbed, and vice versa.
After repeated experiments many times, Xu Yi also found that even those melon seedlings and other things, if they want to be absorbed, they must avoid forming such a large continuous space in the middle of these melon seedlings, otherwise these melon seedlings will definitely not be absorbed.
But as long as the continuity of this space is broken, there is no guarantee that there will be such a large independent space, no matter how large these spaces are combined, it cannot avoid the fate of the buried things being absorbed!
Such a result undoubtedly made Xu Yi very satisfied, and gladly accepted this incomparably beautiful result, he was not a child, how could he only dig such a small cellar?
The experiment continues.
Forget about the trees, this thing will have to work hard to cut down the trees if the experiment fails. So for the next experiment, Xu Yi chose peppermint as the experimental material.
Xu Yi went to pick up a mint pole and threw it into the cellar, sealed the cellar, waited for a while, and then opened the cellar and took out the mint to check it.
There is no change in the mint, and it doesn't seem like a big problem.
Xu Yi thought for a while, picked up a leaf and threw it into the cellar.
Xu Yi actually didn't have much hope for the results of this test, he felt that the inside of this cellar should be no different from the ground, and the leaves should be absorbed quickly.
But the result is always so unexpected.
Xu Yi was surprised to find that the leaf fell to the ground, and there was no trace of absorption at all!
Xu Yi grabbed another leaf and threw it on the ground beside him, but this time the leaf was quickly absorbed, and at this time, the leaves in the cellar still did not change!
Is it because there is a separate space in this cellar, which is different from the ground, and what are the rules underneath?
Xu Yi simply put the mint cuttings at the bottom of the cellar, then sealed the cellar, and brought a bucket of space water to pour it directly on it.
As usual, the water splashed on the ground and quickly disappeared.
What made Xu Yi very satisfied was that although some of the soil on the cellar was washed away by the water, and even a lot of water leaked into the cellar, the cellar was still strong. Even if Xu Yi got some more soil to completely seal the cellar, it had no intention of collapsing at all.
Not only that, but the scene of a mint tree breaking through the ground and lush foliage and flowers in Xu Yi's imagination did not appear at all.
Xu Yi reached out to peel off the extremely damp soil layer again, but found something very magical. Although the soil layer is a little sticky, the straw buried under the soil layer does not feel wet with water at all.
Except for the two sections of straw that flowed rapidly and were directly wet when the water was poured just now, the rest of the straws did not show any signs of watering at all.
Even Xu Yi went to get a cardboard box and opened it, repeated the experiment, and the cardboard completely covered by the soil layer did not get wet at all!
Xu Yi thought of those cardboard boxes and flour and the like, how could it be otherwise, it seems that at this point, this underground space also inherits this very well.
After several experiments, I don't know how much water was poured into the cellar, and even the leaf was washed into the corner of the wall by the water.
However, the mint plant that was cut still had no intention of branching out at all, and Xu Yi pulled it out of the ground, and the section inserted into the soil did not grow any roots.
If it weren't for the fact that the ground around the small hole he had just cut was still a little damp, Xu Yi would have mistakenly thought that the mint had not been watered at all.
Looking at this, Xu Yi thought about it and directly inserted it into the still wet soil on the cellar.
I saw that this mint grew tall and bloomed rapidly, and there was still a difference between the ground and the ground!
Xu Yi stretched out his hand to hold the root of the mint and lifted it up, only to hear a soft click, and the lid of the cellar under the mint was lifted by him at once. A dark patch of dirt hung from the mint roots, like a black flatbread.
Carefully breaking open the soil underneath, Xu Yi was shocked to find that the roots growing under the mint were all horizontally penetrating the surrounding soil, and they had been bypassing the outer edges of the straws before plunging into the surrounding soil.
Xu Yi took off the layer of straw and found that the original black soil around him was like mold at this moment, densely covered with countless white flowers and fluffy roots......!