It's spring, the family has been very busy recently, Wang He and I are also busy, going to school, feeding pigs, putting ducks, when putting ducks, we will dig some wild vegetables, the restaurant is fresh so we also sent it together, and we can make money, Uncle Li's restaurant is developing very well now, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, so the demand is not small,

Because the restaurant also needs to use a large number of vegetables, my mother and Uncle Li have been doing business together for so long, Uncle Li thinks that my mother's character is very good, thinking that the vegetables in the spring and summer of this year are ordered at my house, but the vegetable field is very large, and there is a vegetable field in Grandma Zhang's house, and my mother and I are two people at home, counting Grandma Zhang and Wang He, only four people, my mother thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no problem with supplying the hotel.

Boss Zhang gave his mother, the vegetable seeds that the restaurant will use, some of the mother and Grandma Zhang have not planted, there are still some worries, there are several of them were planted by the mother in the previous life, but they are all many years later, the seeds bought in the town, now they are all fresh things, Boss Zhang does not know how to plant, said that it is from the south, but it should be similar to radish and cabbage.

Among them, lettuce, lettuce is generally cultivated in the previous life, likes loose and fertile soil, is very suitable for planting in the Northeast, lettuce, generally planted in spring and autumn is better, and can also be planted in summer, but the growth is slow, and the quality will be poor.

The planting method is also very simple, you can take live broadcasting, you can also transplant seedlings, the seeds are smaller, the soil needs to be finely broken and loose, the seeds are evenly sprinkled on the culture soil, covered with a thin layer of soil after sowing, pay attention to heat preservation and moisturizing, and generally germinate 2 to 3 days after sowing.

If you sow seedlings in summer, you should prevent rain impact, avoid sun exposure, seeds are difficult to germinate above 25C, sowing in summer should be 15 to 20C conditions to germinate first, germination and then sowing, we are here now belongs to spring, the temperature is also very suitable, I persuaded my mother to sprinkle the seeds directly into the ground, my mother for insurance, only planted a part, Grandma Zhang after planting, will also go to observe every day to see how the seedlings emerge.

After the lettuce emerges, every morning and evening with a fine-hole watering can to drench the water, the seedlings are about half a month to carry out the seedlings, the weak seedlings are removed, leaving the tall seedlings, as for transplanting, it is carried out when 4 true leaves, because the lettuce is tall, the seedling distance can be about 20 cm.

Lettuce cultivation culture soil should be fertile, loose, water and fertilizer, plant or transplant before putting some fertilizer, planting seedlings, more soil planting, and need to choose the evening, after planting should be shaded and moisturized, in order to facilitate the rapid slow seedlings, after the seedlings, watering 2 times a day, morning and evening, should not be watered at noon on a sunny day, fertilization is mainly thin liquid fertilizer, can be watered with water.

Lettuce starts from small seedlings, can be combined with seedlings to pick one after another, generally should be lettuce has been fully grown, before aging, the edible part is its tender leaves, fresh and crisp, the taste is fragrant and slightly bitter. It has analgesic and hypnotic effects, can be fried or made into soup, is a rare delicacy, in the previous life, my mother liked to use it to occupy the sauce to eat, and the taste was also very good.

There is also a kind of spinach, now there are spinach sellers in the town, but they are all coming in from other places, the price is too expensive, the average person can't afford to eat, everyone will not plant, when I was in junior high school, spinach has become the main vegetable in the village in summer, accounting for sauce to eat, stew powder to eat, stew tofu, all delicious.

Spinach likes a cold environment, cold-tolerant, winter temperature in -10C can also be overwintered in the open field, the most suitable germination temperature is about 15 degrees, the most suitable growth temperature is about 20C, 25C or more poor growth, not drought tolerant, not strict requirements for soil, like to grow in loose and fertile, water and fertilizer retention sandy loam soil.

Spinach is generally seeded in direct seeding, mainly sown, can be dry seed live broadcast, can also be treated in advance, before sowing can be broken the peel and then soaked in seed germination, or the seeds are soaked in cold water for about 12 hours, and then germinated under the condition of 25C, after about 5 days of germination.

Before sowing, the culture soil is watered thoroughly, covered with a thin layer of culture soil after sowing, to keep the soil moist, the dry seed seeding takes about 2 weeks to emerge, if the germination is promoted, the seedlings can emerge in 4 days after sowing, after the emergence and time of the seedlings, 4 true leaves can be set seedlings, or transplanted to other places, and the seedling spacing is about 25 cm.

Spinach likes light, but is not resistant to strong direct light, should be given sufficient sunlight during cultivation, keep the soil moist during the growth period, the growth rate is slower, the temperature is higher should be watered in the morning and evening, the water in the container should be drained in time in rainy days, in addition to the application of enough base fertilizer in the culture soil, if the seedlings are yellow and thin during the growth period, they can be combined with watering to apply fertilizer twice, the temperature is low, and the soil needs to be loosened and weeded frequently, so as to facilitate the absorption of nutrients by the root system and prevent soil compaction.

Spinach can be harvested successively 30 days after sowing, a total of 3 harvests, can also be harvested at one time, the two kinds given by Boss Zhang, seeds, are also relatively easy to serve, not so troublesome, and do not need to be fine.

Mom and Grandma Zhang have never planted lettuce and spinach before, and we haven't even seen them here, these two vegetables, now in the Northeast, even in the autumn harvest season, there are very few varieties of vegetables to choose from, and they have not yet appeared, the shops that sell vegetable seeds, and the vegetable seeds at home are all selected by themselves last year, or exchanged with the village to his family.

Everyone doesn't know about themselves, or haven't seen the variety, the recognition is not very high, this is still Boss Zhang asked relatives to buy from a far away, because everyone has not planted before, and there is no so-called experience to teach, all to try, Boss Zhang's plan is also if the mother grows it, he will put it in the restaurant to sell, so that the guests can also have one more choice, the mother can also get a sum of money, if the mother is not successful, Boss Zhang should sell the mother a favor, let the mother try it, how not to suffer。

Grandma Zhang and my mother actually didn't have much hope, mainly because they hadn't planted before, and they didn't know how much they could live, but they listened to me, took out a little seed, and experimented with it, but I didn't expect it to be very easy to feed, and the seedlings will emerge soon, because there are not many seeds this year, I am ready to plant well next year, Wang He and I took the seedlings cultivated in advance, and went outside to buy them, anyway, next year, Boss Zhang will definitely know how to feed these things, and my mother will not hide his secrets, and he should return a favor, although the seedlings have emerged, but Grandma Zhang still has to look at them every day, mainly because these things are valuable, I guess I won't be able to eat at home this year, and I will definitely have to pull it to the restaurant, but there are still persimmons and cucumbers in the yard, and I don't like to eat these two vegetables very much, so just think about it.