Chapter Seventy-Two: Spring Ploughing
By mid-April, the grain and vegetables will start to be planted. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is definitely not possible to plant these lands with Shen Yunfang's small body now, but fortunately, she has self-knowledge and invited people in advance.
The Wang family also has its own land, which is a solar term farming, so the two people can only do it separately.
The daughter-in-law of the big bolt of vegetables moves faster than the bolt, so the daughter-in-law of the bolt will give Shen Yunfang to dry sooner or later, and the bolt will go to plant her own land.
He took the time to start beating the adobe, preparing to build a sheepfold and a pigsty for Shen Yunfang in the backyard, he was the only one to do it, and the project was very slow, but it was expected to be completed before the summer.
Of course, Shen Yunfang herself can't be idle, although her vegetable planting and Da Bolt's daughter-in-law's Ma Li Jin is not at the same level, but she still insists on doing it together. Is the flame high for everyone to gather firewood?
Shen Yunfang and Da Xuan's daughter-in-law planted their own land first, and she plans to interplant soybeans and sweet potatoes with corn this year, which can not only fertilize the land but also increase production.
When planting, it is two ridges of corn, two ridges of soybeans, two ridges of corn, two ridges of sweet potatoes, and the two ridges of corn are planted in a cycle.
The daughter-in-law of the big bolt is quite puzzled, why is it so troublesome to plant a land.
Of course, Shen Yunfang can't say that this is science, such a seed can increase production, she can only say aggrievedly that she likes it, such a seed is good-looking, she is willful, what's the matter, alas!
After planting their own land, the two moved to her backyard.
Shen Yunfang's backyard is very large, larger than her own land, a total of twenty ridges of land, she is going to set aside fourteen ridges to grow food, and the rest of the vegetables are enough for her to eat.
The types of seeds in her own hands were limited, so she went to Aunt Wang's to draw a little bit and planted all the seeds she could find.
There are beans, eggplants, persimmons, peppers, cucumbers, cowpeas, loofahs, and many more. There is also a circle of nest melons planted on the root of the courtyard wall.
She didn't eat the nest melon she planted last year, but this thing can also be used to feed pigs, so she is not afraid of more, and she has a lot of varieties today.
Because she wants to make some chili sauce and pickles in the fall, she grows a lot of chili peppers.
For seasonings like onions, ginger and garlic, she also deliberately opened a small piece for special planting.
There are fourteen ridges left, the same as those planted in the plot.
Later, she saw that the Wang family also planted hair, and she also asked for a handful of them greedily, and there was no place to plant them in the yard, so she hit the idea outside the wall, and she planted two rows of hairy food outside the courtyard wall, and the two rows were interspersed, and when the flowers bloomed later, they could also be very good-looking.
These are all done in the morning and evening when she is not working, and she is not idle when she is at work.
Every morning when she went to work, she went to the production team to drive the sheep, and then led the sheep to the back of her house, and she opened a door in the backyard, from where she took her family's ten lambs and went into the mountains from behind.
After climbing for two hours to the hillside where she had cleared the wasteland, herding the sheep and grazing herself, she began to work.
She has been cultivating the wasteland for more than half a month, and she has not cultivated much, and she has planted sweet potatoes in about six or seven parts of the land.
Later, when she saw that someone was growing watermelons and melons, she also asked for some seeds, and she planted two of each in the backyard, and let her plant the rest here, which was her secret base.
Later, Shen Yunfang accidentally found that the sweet potatoes used for seedling cultivation followed the original nest and grew sweet potato seedlings again, and she had already pulled out the original seedlings and planted them in the ground, okay.
After asking the daughter-in-law of the big bolt, I found out that as long as the place is not moved, the sweet potatoes that raise seedlings can still grow a second stubble, and the sweet potato seedlings of the second stubble are the same as the first stubble sweet potato seedlings, and they can still be planted.
The remaining sweet potatoes for seedlings can still be eaten, but they are no longer noodles and have a bad taste, but it is still good to feed pigs.
Shen Yunfang sighed in her heart, everything in life is knowledge.
It is also a waste to put the second sweet potato seedlings like this, so Shen Yunfang wondered where to plant some.
Later, she really found a place to plant.
The road from her backyard to the mountain is very backshit, she walks every day to herd sheep these days, and finds that the wild vegetables in this place grow very lushly, such as ant vegetables, gray cabbage, bitter hemp cabbage, and camellia.
And these are good materials for feeding pigs.
Shen Yunfang took a small shovel to dig when he had time, dug very deep, basically dug out the roots, and then planted sweet potato seedlings in the pit.
This place carries people, plus the grass is thick, and when the grass grows, if you don't look carefully, you can't find that there are sweet potato seedlings hidden in the grass.
In this way, with the help of Da Bolt's daughter-in-law, Shen Yunfang finally planted all the land in mid-May, and the busy spring plowing finally came to an end slightly.
"Yo, Yunfang girl is really capable, she carries water and waters the fields by herself."
It was an uncle and brother of Shen Yunfang's own family who spoke, Shen Yunfang was twenty years older, his name was Shen Jide, he was a hard-working banker, and his family's self-reserved land was very close to Shen Yunfang's family, and there was a family in between, so Shen Yunfang basically saw him tending to the crops every time he came to the field.
"Hey, Brother Jide, you're busy too. I won't tell you, but I'll go to the ground first, the water is too heavy. Shen Yunfang's footsteps did not stop, and he carried the flat shoulder to his own land in sweat.
"Oh, it's not good for the little girl to carry such a heavy burden, my brother will help you pick up two buckets in a while, you can rest for a while." Shen Jide shouted from behind.
"No need, thank you Brother Jide, I can do it myself." Shen Yunfang also shouted.
When she got to the ground, she put down the flat burden on her shoulder, and she knew that her shoulders must be red without looking.
She looked down at the bucket of water, which was not yet halfway there, and felt a little smug in her heart. Her progress can be seen from the water in the bucket, these days of climbing mountains and clearing the wasteland, so that her physical strength has improved significantly, although there is still a gap from the real crop style, but there is progress is worth being happy about, isn't it.
Farming is a university question, it is like raising a child, after you plant it, in order to have a good harvest, you can't let it go, you have to serve it well.
How to serve? It's weeding, watering, and fertilizing.
Weeding is easy to say, just come once every ten days and half a month, and Shen Yunfang still thinks she can do it for work such as pulling weeds and digging vegetables.
Fertilization is okay, and when the time comes, Brother Da Bolt will help her pour the manure from the manure pit into the ground, which is her secret base, and let her sprinkle some earthworm dung.
The most difficult thing is watering, fortunately, corn is a drought-resistant plant, as long as there is enough irrigation during the heading and filling period, it can grow well. I don't usually pour a lot.
But even if it is not much, it is difficult for Shen Yunfang.
There is no well on this side of the farm, so the villagers have to use buckets and poles to fetch water from the creek at the head of the village.
This job is difficult for anyone, and it is even more difficult for Shen Yunfang.
Shen Yunfang has a room to cheat, but she can't conjure water out of thin air. Just like Shen Jide just now, every day in that kind of place, she Shen Yunfang came once a few days, and it was clear to people who were carrying water, if she didn't see her carrying water but found that the buds in her field were not short of water, wouldn't it be obvious to tell people that she had a problem.
So even if it was to confuse everyone, she had to carry the water herself. On the contrary, it is easy to water the land up the mountain, and you can do it if you have space.