The land at home has been planted, my mother finally has time, began to be busy with the vegetables in the yard, this year my mother wants to think about a variety of vegetables with a little big leaves, the boss of the town has already said to my mother, some vegetables in the restaurant this year, I want to buy from my family, even the types of vegetables are basically booked, my mother is also very happy to hear the news, and the vegetables in the yard are also extremely concerned.

There is a yard in front of my house and behind the house, because there is no one in the back, so the yard in the back is also very large, you can grow a lot of vegetables, the vegetable field in the back is a little close to the window, in order to prevent blocking the indoor light, my mother is planting vegetables in the back every year, planting corn in front of me, sweet oranges and other tall plants.

Grandma Zhang's vegetables have already been planted, and my mother gave Grandma Zhang a copy of the seeds given by Boss Zhang, so that in the future, the restaurant will collect vegetables, and Grandma Zhang can also sell vegetables to make some money, even if it doesn't work, you can keep it for yourself, Grandma Zhang knows that our family has planted the crops in the field, and we are going to start busy with the work in the yard, so I brought Wang He over to help early.

We hold a large watering can for watering vegetables, a seedling shovel that lifts the seedlings out of the soil when moving seedlings, a small rake used to loosen the soil for vegetables, a pickaxe for digging holes in the ground, and a basket of fertilizer made by my mother with sawdust and leaves.

Fertilizer is particularly important, it is made of pigs, chickens, ducks and other animal manure mixed into the garden soil, rotten vegetables, fallen leaves and water through accumulation and fermentation, and it should be dried and sieved after rotting, which contains nutrients and humus, and has rich fertility.

Most vegetables also have great requirements for the soil, the soil needs to be fertile, loose and breathable, good drainage, we belong to the northeast, the soil is mainly field soil, because every year in the yard to grow vegetables, the soil contains a certain amount of humus, permeability is also good, is the most important raw material for the preparation of culture soil.

Now there is no so-called pesticide thing, because the soil in the yard needs to be reused, so it needs to be simply disinfected before planting vegetables, the people in the village are disinfected by sun exposure, the soil in the yard is turned over little by little with a stick, and the soil inside is exposed to strong light for 2 to 3 days, in fact, this is the method passed down from the ancestors, everyone is not very clear about the scientific truth inside, but it is very useful, and it has been passed down, in fact, the main purpose of this is to let some pathogenic bacteria and insect eggs be killed, the advantage is that it will not destroy the structure of the soil, and the beneficial microorganisms will not be killed in large quantities。

The size and shape of vegetable seeds are different, and the germination time is also different, in order to make vegetables emerge quickly, avoid the occurrence of pests and diseases, sometimes before sowing, it is necessary to carry out the necessary treatment of vegetable seeds, the method used by my mother is to soak the seeds in warm soup, that is, put the seeds in warm water at 55 to 60C, soak for 15 minutes, and then reduce the water temperature to about 30 degrees, and continue to soak for 3 to 4 hours.

Some of the treated seeds can be sown directly, and some seeds that are not easy to germinate or germinate slowly need to be promoted to shorten the seedling raising time. The seeds must be soaked before germination, but the soaking time should not be too long, and the soaking time for each vegetable is not the same.

Cucumber needs to be soaked for 2 hours, pepper, eggplant, tomato soaked for 4 hours is more appropriate, after soaking treatment, the seeds are taken out and wrapped in wet gauze or towel, put into bowls, pots and other containers, placed in a 30C environment, keep gauze or towels moist every day, until the seeds germinate and dew white, you can sow seeds, so that the processed seeds emerge faster.

Because the size of the seeds of vegetables is different, the sowing methods are also different, there are generally three methods, sowing, sowing or strip sowing, sowing is to evenly sprinkle the seeds on the sowing soil, often used for small vegetable seeds, sowing is to dig holes and sow according to a certain plant spacing, suitable for large seeds and rarer vegetable seeds, strip sowing is not commonly used, according to a certain row spacing ditch sowing, suitable for medium and small vegetable seeds.

There are generally two ways to plant vegetables, one is to raise seedlings first, and then transplant, the other is to sow directly, some vegetables such as beans, root vegetables of radish, carrots, because it is a straight root system, the root system is not developed, transplanting seedlings will harm the normal development of roots, generally based on live broadcasting, and some vegetables have more developed roots and fibrous roots, such as cabbage, cauliflower, eggplant, tomato, etc., which can be transplanted seedlings.

Direct sowing, is to directly sow the seeds into the yard, after the whole growth period in addition to the seedlings, no longer transplanted, first seedlings and then transplanted, is the first choice of plastic tray and other containers of moderate size as the "seedling tray", the seeds are currently sown into the "seedling tray, when the seedlings grow to a certain size, move to other containers in time to plant.

Advantage of the whole growth period needs to be transplanted 3 times, transplant pay attention not to damage the root system of seedlings, can be fully watered to the soil or substrate before digging vegetable seedlings, it is advisable for gangsters to transplant, so that the seedlings survive quickly after transplanting, and should pay attention to shade before transplanting, and the soil should pay attention to heat preservation.

Mom raised vegetable seedlings a long time ago, today you can plant directly in the yard, the yard is divided into several parts, because the vegetable seedlings are very fragile, Mom and Grandma Zhang are responsible for planting vegetables, Wang He and I are responsible for planting potatoes, potatoes are our village, the most important vegetables, because there is nothing to eat in winter, the main vegetable varieties are cabbage and potatoes, it is not yet time to plant Chinese cabbage, planting potatoes has become very important, Mom has sent out a lot of potato seeds in advance, each sprout as a seed, divide the potatoes into small parts, Mom in front of the use to make a deep ditch, Wang He and I are responsible for planting the potatoes inside, and my mother's task is the heaviest, because my father is not at home, and we have no way to help my mother share it, so we planted it for a while, and then watered the planted place first, so that my mother doesn't have to be too anxious.

When we basically finished watering, my mother's ridge has been very long, the two of us began to work hard to plant potatoes, I and Wang He have a clear division of labor, see that the dry is about the same, Wang He began to carry water, come to water, I am responsible for planting potatoes behind my mother, after a busy morning, finally almost, my mother took out the fertilizer and began to put fertilizer, because this work requires experience, too much is easy to burn the vegetable seedlings, too little and can not help the seedlings grow up, so my mother let me and Wang He go to rest, she and Grandma Zhang began to put fertilizer little by little。