Xu Yi casually flipped a few times near the root of a potato, and saw a few irregular white patches exposed in the dark soil, and the newly tender potato eggs appeared shiningly.

Leaning in to take a closer look, Xu Yi saw that although the skin of a few potatoes was not as thick brown as the brownish-yellow skin of the potatoes that had been left for a long time, it at least had the translucent feeling when they first grew, and they looked relatively thick, and there were tiny brown spots scattered on them, and it was obvious that the potatoes were almost fully ripe.

Thinking like this, Xu Yi looked up at the potato seedlings in front of him.

Although these potato plants grow tall and low, there are more or less bunches of potato bells growing on them, and many of them are beginning to glow slightly yellowish and are close to maturity, which is also more proof of their judgment.

Xu Yi nodded, reached out and grabbed the potato seedling in front of him and lifted it.

With a little effort, he could hear the fibrous roots of the potato being pulled off, making a dull "click" sound, and Xu Yi then felt that the whole potato was pulled off as soon as his hand was light.

I had been mentally prepared that this potato would not grow too big, but when Xu Yi saw a small bunch of grapes-like potatoes on the root, he couldn't help but pout and shake his head.

Xu Yi has naturally seen a good-growing potato.

When he planted potatoes at home, the big ones were even bigger than the pillow he slept on when he was a child, Xu Yi vaguely remembered that when he was four or five years old, Lao Dao worked in the field, and he always put him on the ground to play alone.

At that time, I could only pick up one potato at a time.

However, grow so big. I've never seen such a small potato.

If not counting the days. These things have been planted for a long time. There were still bunches of potato bells hanging on it, and Xu Yi had to wonder if he had pulled out the potatoes that had just been planted not long ago.

These potatoes grown from seeds are really out of the ordinary.

The number of potatoes that bear fruit on the roots of the plucked potatoes is really not small, and there are no less than twenty or thirty large and small at a glance.

Unfortunately, this amount is useless, and all of these potatoes are small and delicate, except for three or five that have grown to the size of eggs, and almost half of the remaining potatoes are slightly larger than the yolk. Then there are only the size of small fingernails.

Xu Yi lifted the potatoes in his hand and groaned, or let these potatoes for a while, those small ones should be able to grow a little longer.

However, in the blink of an eye, Xu Yi gave up this idea.

After all, it may take for this thing to fall to the bottom, anyway, even if you dig potatoes at home, even in autumn, there will be small potatoes on the roots of this potato, and you are about to be busy, these things are better to take advantage of the free time to plant more, after all, this is just an attempt to breed, these potatoes are completely enough to grow themselves.

Xu Yi shook the potato seedlings in his hand casually. Shake off some of the dirt from the roots, then pluck all the big potatoes on top and put them in the basket. He tossed the potato seedlings aside.

There are still small potatoes on this seedling, how to deal with it, Xu Yi still can't make up his mind, if he buries it directly in the soil, he is afraid that those potatoes will take root and sprout again, and if he puts it here to dry, he will be absorbed by himself like those felled trees.

If it really doesn't work, then wait until the seedlings are dry, and then pick out those small potatoes yourself, and just clean them up.

Of course, these small potatoes have no value for further planting, and Xu Yi does not plan to clean them up now.

If such a small thing is planted in the soil, it is difficult to say whether it can germinate, and even if it can germinate, such a small potato cannot supply the nutrient absorption of the newly grown shoots, and the seedlings that grow will not grow well.

If you really eat it, you can eat dozens of them in one bite, which is not enough for the cleaning fee.

After working for a while, Xu Yi finally pulled all the potatoes, and the basket also contained a large number of large and small new tender potato eggs.

Lifting the basket and weighing it, Xu Yi nodded with satisfaction.

Thirty or forty potatoes were half a basket, and it can be seen that the quality of the male and female parents of these potato seeds is good, and such a small potato can harvest so much.

Xu Yi couldn't help but look forward to what a happy harvest of potatoes would be after a few more generations.

What makes him even more satisfied is that the potatoes, whether they are in the basket or those small potatoes that have not been picked, are basically spherical or ellipsoidal, and only a few plants have some non-mainstream colors with three edges and eight antagons, three flat and four not round.

Of course, Xu Yi didn't pick any of the non-mainstream potatoes that were pulled out, regardless of the size of the potatoes growing on them, and threw the whole plant aside, piling them up with the remaining potato seedlings, and he was not ready to continue planting these crooked melons and cracked dates.

Of course, as rhizomes, no matter what they look like, they will not have any effect on the flavor and texture of these potatoes, and even some of the better-tasting individuals may be stored in these strangely shaped goods.

It's just that no matter what, no matter how good the taste of the potatoes is, they can't get rid of the essence of being a potato themselves.

The reason for their elimination is that this irregularly shaped potato is too cumbersome to peel, it is easy to peel it uncleanly, and if you are not careful, you can even peel it on your hands.

In addition to such non-mainstream, there are also those potatoes with deep buds, or those hemp potatoes with cracked hemp skins on the surface, which are comparable to kiwifruit, were also picked out by Xu Yi and eliminated.

The reason why potatoes with deep buds and eyes are eliminated is also because of the trouble of peeling.

As for the hemp potato, although there is a local variety in his hometown, it grows like this, just like being infected by actinomycetes and having scabs.

However, the chapped skin of the hemp potatoes is very even, just like the potatoes that you have eliminated. The whole skin is covered with cracks. It's not like the scars of scabs. This kind of seacchi potato tastes more flavorful. Moreover, the outer skin is thicker, which is more shelf-stable than ordinary potatoes, and the people in the village grow potatoes for their own consumption, so it is not difficult to find.

It's just that this kind of potato is small and the yield is not high, so it is basically not circulated.

The vegetable market here in the provincial capital sells bare-skinned potatoes, and if you make your own sesame potatoes, it seems that the difference between them and the market is too big. It's also troublesome to cover up, so Xu Yi doesn't care if these things are delicious or not, and he is ready to eliminate them.

After all the potatoes were screened, Xu Yi carried the basket and changed a piece of land in the open space, ready to plant the potatoes in the basket again.

There is no problem of heavy stubble in the space, and there is no problem in planting potatoes directly in the place where the potatoes were planted before.

However, there were too few potatoes before, and Xu Yi didn't use a pickaxe to save trouble, so it was difficult to protect when he pulled it out before. There will be some small potatoes that will be left out in the soil.

If you continue to plant it in the same place, it will not be mixed into the potatoes next time. When it's time to harvest, you have to pick it out, which will undoubtedly increase your workload.

These potatoes were too small, so Xu Yi didn't plan to cut the potatoes and plant them again, so he planted them all and planted a piece of land about the size of an acre.

After planting the potatoes, Xu Yi also transplanted the ginger again.

Of course, the roots under the ginger thing are originally very irregular, and the shape is naturally not chosen, and the ginger pieces at the roots of these ginger are not very large, and the difference in size is not so obvious.

Therefore, except for one ginger block below that grew as slender as a bamboo whip, which was picked out by Xu Yi at all, other gingers, no matter how big or small, were all planted by him, and they were also planted three or four points of the ground.

Xu Yi straightened up, took two deep breaths, hammered his somewhat sore back with his backhand, and walked towards the peppers that had been transplanted to the edge of the space.

After a few peppers have been transplanted for so long, they have grown more and more luxuriant, and they have become more and more like trees.

But I don't know if it's because the time is still short, or because it's still a herbaceous plant after all, these peppers only grow to about two meters even if you count the branches on the top, except for the main trunk that is thicker than the thumb is lignified and grayish-white, the branches on the top are all green, and there is no sign of lignification.

Of course, I don't know if it was because of the influence of transplanting, or because of some other reason, Xu Yi found that there were not many new white flowers and newly grown peppers on a few peppers.

Xu Yi raised his hand, picked a few green chili peppers from it, and pocketed them with the front of his clothes, ready to wait for him to come back and bring them to stir-fry to eat.

When he wanted to go out, Xu Yi turned his head and saw a beehive near the edge of the light curtain, and after thinking about it, he decided to check it out.

After taking two steps, Xu Yi stopped, put the pepper back on the stove, armed himself again, and then lit the smoke drawer and carried it in his hand, and then walked towards the beehive.

Nine times out of ten, this colony is a wild bee that has not been domesticated, and if you are not careful, it is difficult to say that you will not be attacked by these bees.

Standing on the edge of the beehive, Xu Yi looked at it for a while, and then watched the buzzing bees busily entering and exiting the beehive, but none of them came to him for trouble.

Xu Yi sighed, put the smoke drawer on the ground at hand, squatted on the ground, flicked it lightly on the bottom plate of the beehive, and after a while, carefully pulled open the movable bottom plate, poked his head over and looked up from below.

When packing the box before, the number of bee colonies was not particularly large, so Xu Yi simply added the layer of the top cover of the beehive to the bottom layer of the beehive. This makes the hive smaller, but it is also easier for the bees to get in and out of the hive, and it also prevents the hive from being too tall and the worker bees from creating the hive.

Xu Yi was pleased to find out that this bee is a group of hard-working elves, after such a long time, the honeycombs on the top layer of the beehive along the honeycombs that have been installed by themselves have been built by the worker bees into very regular and very beautiful hives.

If you don't look closely, you can't tell which ones are the honeycombs you have put on and which ones are the newly created nests of bees, and whether they are newly created or the ones you originally installed, they are crawling with busy little bees.

Xu Yi looked at the hanging down nests, these hives were all freshly built, the color was snow-white, and the lower edge and sides were streamlined, looking like pieces of hanging beef tongue cakes.

Seeing this, Xu Yi also put his mind at ease, opened the beehive, and directly added a few layers of relay boxes to the beehive, and then stretched out and went directly out of the space. (To be continued......)

PS: It's amazing that there is an update, isn't it?

Well, this may be the longest chapter ever written—not necessarily the last, but at least unprecedented.

Speaking of eunuchs in this book, I can only say I'm sorry, I really don't have the idea of eunuchs.

As for the break, I was really uncomfortable, and I was really distracted.

I have to say it.,After finishing this chapter.,It's going to have to be broken for almost half a month.,At least after I'm done with this period of time.。

Most of this chapter was written before, intermittently, but it was changed yesterday and today.