0348 Pergolas
Xu Yi stood there and sighed for a while, then put the two fish tanks into the space, packed up his things and then entered the space as well.
Naturally, there was no need to keep these fish, so Xu Yi dug a pit in the ground with a shovel, poured all the dead fish and water in the fish tank into the pit and buried them.
After making sure that these were absorbed, he washed the fish tank and put it aside, Xu Yi sighed.
My experiment has fallen into the stage of no rice cooking, and I can't go on at all. I really don't have to worry about what to do with these grown fish, there are only two pairs of small fish left in the space, and there are three pairs of original broodstock left. But no matter if it doesn't look like it's going to lay eggs, I don't know when the road will lay eggs. Next, I can only wait for the fish outside to hatch before I can continue to design this test, and I don't know if the hatching rate of such a small number of fish eggs is enough, and whether there will be any abnormalities.
Xu Yi stood for a while, unable to think of a clue, so he cheered up and began to get busy.
I bought so many fruit trees, which had to be planted and planned well, which was also a task that required me to work for a long time!
The fruit trees bought can be planted on about six or seven acres of land, and it is easier to manage them in a concentrated way than in a scattered way. However, except for the vacant land reserved before, there is no such large vacant space in the space. Planting in places where vegetables are ready to grow? Obviously, it's not a good choice.
After all, even if there are only a few acres of land, Xu Yi can solve the problem of insufficient land area through efficient crop rotation. Xu Yi thought yes. Wait for the trees to be watered with space. When it grows into a large tree, the impact on the surrounding vegetables may be severe.
Rather than having to find a new way at that time, it is better to plant them in a more suitable place now. Xu Yi looked around, and finally decided to plant these fruit trees near the cherry trees.
The trees that grow there are now some linden trees that were planted some time ago, and although they have not been cared for much since they were planted, these saplings are still growing quite well after such a long time. It's almost the thickness of your wrist.
In order to allow the bees to pollinate those vegetables as much as possible, even when the small trees transplanted from the nursery were planted, Xu Yi did not water them, just in case, and watered a few trees from a distance. There is no doubt that without the help of space water, the growth rate of these trees is undoubtedly a race between snails and rabbits compared to the trees planted before. Even if they are still super fast compared to the outside world, they are only equivalent to three or four years of small trees at most during this time. The tree is not big, so it takes no effort to clean it up.
In addition, these fruit trees are planted here, which is also convenient for those bees to collect honey. Of course, those bees themselves don't have to have too high hopes, this kind of work depends on the two boxes of Italian black bees.
Just scavenge all the honey in the two boxes of black bee hives. Naturally, they will also target these fruit trees.
Another advantage of being here is that it is a little more convenient, after all, this place is a cellar a little further away. If there are fewer fruits harvested at one time, it is natural to take them out of the space. If there are too many, they can be stored in the cellar for a while, which will also save you from having to move them to the tent again.
After making up his mind, Xu Yi rolled up his arms and sleeves and did it. He took a pickaxe and gouged it up at the edge of the base of the lime tree.
After all, this tree is still relatively small, and it is easier to dig up the roots with less effort, and even if the roots are a little thicker, it can be easily cut off with a pickaxe with a little effort. However, in most of the day, Xu Yi dug up all these trees, and cleared out almost seven or eight acres of open space, which was enough to plant those fruit trees. These small lime trees dug up, Xu Yi didn't think about letting them be directly absorbed by the space, it would be too wasteful, after the trunks of these trees were cleaned up and dried, they were no worse than those bamboo poles when they were used as shelves.
Xu Yi took a firewood knife and a saw, and cleared all the tops and roots of these small trees one by one, and after half a day, he also got hundreds of straight and smooth wooden poles that were almost three meters long. Xu Yi glanced at the tree trunks on the ground, thought about it, and went to the pile of logs to pick up those dry logs and carried a dozen of them back, and then piled all these poles on top of the pile of logs, waiting for them to dry slowly.
Among the seedlings that Xu Yi bought, there were also a lot of kiwifruit and grapes. These things are all lianas, and they can't grow normally on their own without climbers. If you don't put up shelves for them, these things will only grow and spread along the ground, and it will be a big headache for him to manage and harvest them later.
Originally, field cultivation, whether grapes or kiwifruit, should be cultivated by hedges, which can increase planting density, save land area, facilitate ventilation in the field, and increase effective light to resist strong winds.
However, Xu Yi does not plan to do this, after all, if the fence is built, on the one hand, it will take more time, and the field management will require too much labor. What's more, the fence needs more poles, whether it is these logs or those bamboo poles are not very suitable in terms of shape and quantity, plus they have to buy cement columns and a large number of nylon curtain lines and other materials. There are too many of these saplings I bought, and if I do this, it will cost more than thousands of yuan!
Let's do it in the spirit of saving costs and labor. Therefore, Xu Yi had already thought about the pros and cons when he bought the saplings, so he did not hesitate to choose this way.
In contrast, although the cultivation density of trellises is low, operations such as pruning are much more convenient than those of hedges, and operations such as picking will be more convenient and labor-saving.
Anyway, you don't have to worry too much about land area or lighting, so why not?
The logs that Xu Yi carried over were intended to be used as scaffolding columns, and the reason why bamboo poles were not chosen was not because the bamboo poles were not strong enough. The main reason is that the ground in this space is too soft, Xu Yi is afraid that when these grapes and kiwifruit grow up, the weight will be too heavy and the bamboo poles will be pressed into the ground, which will also be a trouble at that time.
After Xu Yi measured the length of the logs with a ruler, he cut them to a sufficient length with a saw, and chiseled a hole at one end with a chisel that was large enough for the bamboo poles to pass through, so that as long as the bamboo poles were inserted into the holes and slightly fixed, they could be well prevented from sliding.
After everything was done, Xu Yi dug a deep pit in the ground at intervals, put all the logs in it, adjusted the direction of the holes carved out of it, and fixed all of them with soil.
Next, Xu Yi brought some bamboo poles and stepped on a ladder to insert both ends of them into the holes in the logs. Then use an electric drill to drill holes in the bamboo poles next to the logs, and use thin bamboo sticks to nail them in to prevent the bamboo poles from sliding, and soon build a shelf that is almost one person high. After finishing it, Xu Yi went to get some thin bamboo poles and put one on top of this shelf every other section, spread a net-like structure on it, and fix them all, and the Peng family was completely completed.
The location where this shelf was built Xu Yi happened to be at the door of the cellar, although it was inevitable that when the kiwi and grapes grew up, the light would inevitably be blocked, but Xu Yi naturally didn't need to worry about this. The cellar is too deep, and the area inside is not small, so the lighting problem is already very serious. Anyway, it's dark enough inside now, and after this is done in the future, we will have to turn on the lights inside, which really doesn't rely on natural light.
After setting up the shelf, Xu Yi carried a bucket of water, and then brought the grape seedlings and kiwi fruit. The area of this trellis is almost more than two acres, which is definitely more than enough to deal with the grapes and kiwifruit that Xu Yi bought.
The main variety of kiwifruit that Xu Yi bought is also a golden kiwifruit that was boasted of by that strange thing. However, when he saw the boss introducing this variety in the store, Xu Yi was overjoyed, and couldn't help but wonder a little - is this thing so ordinary?
It was the owner of the shop who briefly told Xu Yi about it, and Xu Yi reluctantly realized that this matter had also been fooled by Qi Yi - most of the golden kiwifruit in the domestic fruit market is now domestic. The taste and texture of this variety of kiwifruit are indeed better than the old domestic varieties, but no matter what, it is also a kiwifruit, and it is not as rare as the strange one said.
Over the years, many places in China with conditions, including many places in the province, have also improved varieties to plant this kind of kiwifruit varieties that not only look good, but also taste better. Replacing the old varieties with not so good yield and taste, this naturally formed a lot of interest space, and also gave birth to a considerable number of golden kiwifruit seedling bases. This kind of fruit seedlings are no longer imported from New Zealand, and the domestic fruit seedlings are also reliable in quality and more competitive in price.
After inquiring, Xu Yi knew that the kind of kiwifruit seedlings that could bear fruit immediately were only a dozen yuan each, but Xu Yi, who was careful and habitual, bought all the annual seedlings according to the usual practice for the purpose of saving.
This thing only costs two yuan each, and Xu Yi bought more than ten at once.
Generally speaking, kiwifruit has a pesky physiological trait: the male flowers of the same kiwifruit bloom first, while the female flowers bloom later, so if only the same kiwifruit is planted, it will often cause pollination difficulties.
And in order to maintain the trait, these trees bought by Xu Yi are actually all female cuttings.
In order to allow them to pollinate normally and avoid producing thin and small fruits, kiwifruit growers generally choose some different kiwifruit male plants with similar flowering periods according to their main varieties.
Thinking of the enthusiastic shopkeeper who sold him kiwifruit, Xu Yi felt that he couldn't stand him. (To be continued......)