0222 Attempt

After planting those potato bells and cutting off those potato seedlings, Xu Yi took a pickaxe and began to dig out.

Xu Yi stepped on the stubble of the sweet potato, Xu Yi dug down from the ground with his back on his back, and fell backwards, turning the soil open to the left and right sides with the pickaxe in his hand.

Planing sweet potatoes is somewhat troublesome in the outside world, either the ground is too hard or too sticky, and I am afraid that the pickaxe will cut off the sweet potatoes.

In the space, this job is unusually easy.

The soil in the space is not only soft, but also scattered, and with a little effort with a pickaxe, it is easy to hook up the soil.

The sweet potatoes also rolled out of the ground with the gurgling of the pickaxe, and they were basically clean, and there was not much dirt stuck to them at all.

Even if it's sandy loam, I'm afraid that's not it.

Soon, a layer of pink, round sweet potatoes was spread on the ground.

There are at least seven or eight large and small sweet potatoes under each sweet potato seedling, and the smallest thickness and length are about the same as a child's arm, and some are like big turnips, and even weigh two or three catties.

The skin of these sweet potatoes is very smooth and looks like a crystalline, which is obviously a good variety.

Xu Yi referred to other things in the space, and attributed the yield and quality of this sweet potato more to its original variety, which is an innate condition.

Perhaps the space has a certain effect on the yield of this sweet potato, and it is obviously only to make its growing conditions the best, but this can only be regarded as an acquired condition.

If the congenital deficiency is insufficient, all that grows are crooked melons and cracked dates, but I am afraid that the acquired conditions will be better. Nor can it reverse reality.

Xu Yi feels that if the outside world also meets the perfect conditions for sweet potato growth. I think the yield and quality should not be worse than the space inside.

Xu Yi picked up a sweet potato and broke off the remaining sticky soil on it. Ready to pack into a bag.

Looking at the round sweet potato that weighed almost a pound in his hand, Xu Yi really wanted to eat one raw like this to see how this thing tasted.

But after thinking about it, Xu Yi shook his head and threw the sweet potato into the bag again.

Many people like to eat sweet potatoes raw, thinking that this thing is sweet and silky, and the taste is quite good.

However, this thing does not contain fat or protein, and is basically a lot of starch plus soluble cellulose.

In other words. Aside from water and unabsorbable fiber, this stuff is a lot of sugar and doesn't have much of other nutrients.

Long-chain starch is difficult to be directly absorbed by the human body without processing, and these starches are quickly broken down by bacteria when they enter the intestines, producing large amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases.

This is also why eating sweet potatoes raw can easily lead to belching and belly swelling.

After cooking, the starch in it can be more easily absorbed and utilized by the human body after gelatinization, and it can be more nutritious.

It can be said that eating sweet potatoes raw is a waste of half of the pitiful sugar, and in addition to taste, the only foreseeable benefit is that soluble fiber can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis. There is a certain laxative effect.

The vines are all planted, so there is no need to think about the problem of seed retention.

Xu Yi, regardless of the size, packed up all the sweet potatoes and made almost a full bag. I can't help but sigh a little. No wonder there was a saying of "half a year's grain for sweet potatoes in one season", but after collecting so many sweet potatoes for three or four catties, this thing is still high-yielding.

Put away the sweet potatoes. Xu Yi went to dig out the potatoes again.

The potatoes are also growing quite well, and the white roots under the potato stalks are covered with large and small potatoes. Like bunches of grapes, the skin of these potatoes is smooth. The color is also very bright and white. The potatoes are already ripe, so they fall off the roots at the slightest touch.

Although it was a flat potato, Xu Yi also found that when he dug the potatoes, he didn't know if it was because the potatoes were too big, but a few potatoes still burst out of the ground.

However, this also makes the skin on top of this thing a little darker, and there is no green skin at all.

Even so, Xu Yi still carefully picked out these potatoes and put them aside, keeping them as potato plants.

When potatoes are growing or poorly stored and exposed to the sun for a long time, the skin of the potatoes will also produce chlorophyll for photosynthesis, and will also produce a large amount of solanine as when it sprouts or rots.

Eating potatoes with high solanine content will make people feel a very uncomfortable spicy feeling, and a large amount of solanine may be poisoned or even fatal.

So Xu Yi still decided not to eat this, just in case.

The new potatoes are particularly tender, and two Xu Yi accidentally took a pickaxe and broke the skin of the potato.

When Xu Yi picked up the potatoes, the water that kept oozing out from the broken skin stuck to the gloves.

When the water is absorbed and dried, a layer of white starch is left on the gloves.

Xu Yi looked at it and nodded secretly, the starch content of this potato is definitely good, I think I can extract a lot of starch.

After removing the remaining potato planters, Xu Yi still had half a bag left.

They had some seeds planted, but they hadn't been planted themselves, so I don't know how long it would take to harvest, so even at the beginning of the harvest there wasn't much to harvest.

It's no problem to eat it, but you can't wait until the half bag of potatoes is eaten before you buy it.

There are large and small potato plants left by Xu Yi, and if it is outside the space, Xu Yi will definitely pick up those larger potatoes to keep them.

However, in the outside world, because of the continuous infection of the virus, and the virus will always exist in the potato and pass it on to the next generation, even if the large potato with better characteristics is planted, it is difficult to guarantee that the potato will continue to degrade and become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, in addition to detoxification technology, there is also a saying for changing varieties in potato cultivation.

After planting a variety for a long time, you have to replace it with potatoes bought elsewhere and plant it again, otherwise you will lose your yield.

Naturally, there is no virus in the space, so Xu Yi doesn't care about the size of the potato, he directly picks up the potatoes with smooth surfaces and shallow buds, and then throws the potatoes that are picked out of the ground into the bag.

Xu Yi carried the bag, which was almost fifty or sixty catties, enough to plant four or five points of land.

But even if this half bag is supposed to be enough for yourself to eat for a while, you should just wait for other things to be done before planting.

There is no need to deal with the remaining seeds, Xu Yi carried the bag of potatoes and sweet potatoes that he kept to eat and went directly out of the space.

Taking advantage of the fact that the soil on the potatoes and sweet potatoes did not turn into water, Xu Yi carried the two bags to the bathroom, threw them on the ground and left them alone, and returned to the space by himself.

The harvest, still going on, is followed by peppers.

I haven't seen it for a few days, but a few pepper seedlings have grown to a height of almost a meter, and the branches and leaves on them are still verdant and straight.

Xu Yi observed for a long time and found a strange problem: the phenomenon of this chili pepper dancing without wind before disappeared.

Could it be that this spatial capacity is not enough to allow such a tall plant to dance anymore?

However, there are still strings of large and small green chili peppers growing on the branches on the top of this pepper. Obviously, even if the branches no longer dance, the pollination problem is still solved by space.

As for the lower half of the pepper stalks, they have become the branches and leaves under the pole and do not know when they have fallen off, leaving only a bunch of peppers hanging on it, and the pole is about a foot high, and it has changed from dark green to light white, which is obviously more obvious than when it is usually planted.

Xu Yi stretched out his hand and touched it, and those white places were covered with tiny hard bumps, which felt very rough, and the rod was obviously harder.

Looking at the lignification of this pole again, Xu Yi couldn't help but wonder, if they were given enough space and time, would these chili peppers grow into chili trees again?

Peppers were originally perennial plants in the tropics, but they only became annual plants in the temperate zone.

The middle and lower part of the pepper is like someone who has nothing to do, hanging the skewered pepper on the branch, densely covered with bunches of red peppers with bright red color, how long a bundle, and the roots are not much thinner than eggs.

Although green chili peppers are also a delicacy, Xu Yi, who had just dug up a lot of potatoes or something, just pulled down two of them, ready to go back and fry shredded potatoes, and put two in them to enhance the flavor, and no matter how much he picked.

His target was only those bright red and fully ripe peppers, but with just a few peppers, Xu Yi actually picked almost half a basket.

Now, not only are there enough seeds, but if you just eat it alone, you can eat it for a long time when it is dried into dried peppers.

After picking the peppers, Xu Yi thought about it and decided to try it, and then transplant these peppers.

If these things can really be turned into trees, don't you have to plant peppers yourself in the future?

It's only grown for so long, and nine times out of ten it's a variety that doesn't grow too tall, so it shouldn't take much effort to pick peppers.

Of course, if they grow too tall, it will certainly cause much less inconvenience to themselves than they do now.

Xu Yi carefully dug them down with a shovel, then separated them to minimize damage to the roots underneath them, and moved them to the light curtain outside the sweet potato field with a bag attached to the soil on the roots.

Then dig the pits again, and plant them at a distance of three or four meters.

If this can continue to grow, it is naturally the best, even if it can't, anyway, just peel a few pepper seeds and plant them, and then do it.

After all, even pepper can grow well in this space, so do you have to worry about whether this pepper can't grow well?

Xu Yi even used a watering can to fill a pot of space water and poured it on them one by one, but all he got was that the pepper looked more and more verdant, and he didn't even want to continue to grow.

Obviously, only the first watering in this space can produce good results. (To be continued......)

PS: I wasn't very satisfied with this chapter, so I changed it again, a little late. I haven't written it for three days, and the manuscript is completely sold out, okay, I have to hurry up and write a few chapters when I'm free today. There is also a thank you for the reward of Dingfeng Bo 0328.