Chapter 39
Not compared to the previous life of pepper, not to mention that many farmers have transferred or contracted the land in their hands to large farmers, that is, they farm their own land, whether it is planting crops or planting melons and vegetables, there are very few people who will keep their own seeds, most of them go directly to the seed station to buy all kinds of seeds. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is not only convenient, but also in fact, over the years, step by step, the crops planted in the field are basically hybrid crops, and these crops can not be used for propagation at all. Otherwise, not only will the output be reduced, but the quality will also deteriorate, but it will not be as good as year after year.
Therefore, most seeds will be marked with a line of words on the outer packaging, which is roughly as follows: "This seed is a hybrid generation of seeds, and it cannot be left for replanting." ”
And time rewinds itself is not, although the pepper has not yet made a clear sense of the era or space in which it is located, but the hybrid seed has always been a shadow. There is no seed organization and seed project in the society, and there is rarely a seed trade in the market.
At the end of the year, the next ones are put first, and in the case of the villagers, it is always a big deal to keep their own seeds.
The seeds of the crops and vegetables of the Sichuan pepper family are selected and collected by the daughters of the family under the leadership of the grandmother, and the grandmother keeps them properly.
Not only the crops such as spring flowers and autumn crops in the field, but also the melon and vegetable seeds in the vegetable garden must be left, and they cannot be sloppy, after all, this is also related to the rice bowl of a large family next year.
And in the view of pepper, compared with the inevitable two points of randomness that others will inevitably reveal, the grandmother who is the head of the family is particularly particular about this.
In fact, it is the same principle as everything in the world, but eugenics.
For example, if you keep the seeds of leafy vegetables, your grandmother will leave the plants that are especially strong and wait for them to bloom and bear fruit. The same is true for melons and vegetables, and you should also choose melons and fruits with beautiful and full fruits, especially those cowpeas and eyepeas that have pairs of pods. And when the seeds are formed, they still can't be taken lightly, especially when they are harvested. After all, if you are too early, the natural quality will be bad, and if you are too late, it will be wasted.
After these seeds are harvested, the leafy vegetable seeds must be dried in time after threshing, and then the seed shell is kneaded and the impurities are removed, and they can be dried and preserved. As for melon and vegetable seeds, most of them are treated in this way. However, there are exceptions, such as gourds, loofahs and the like can be left directly on the vine to wait for it to dry, and then stored in a ventilated and cool place, and then the seeds can be directly planted in the spring of the next year......
These peppercorns have never been exposed to knowledge in their previous lives, even if they have lived in the countryside, or knowledge that they have never thought of being exposed to, have all been learned by stealing teachers bit by bit in these days with their grandmother.
Not only that, Sichuan pepper also knows that my grandmother will buy a thick bundle of fine mulberry paper every year, in addition to preserving silkworm seeds, it is used to preserve all kinds of melon and vegetable seeds.
Although Sichuan pepper can't see the difference between Xiaotang vegetables and bantam yellow for the time being, why are they called soybeans and have different physiques, but my grandmother can classify them. After the seeds of various varieties are carefully wrapped in mulberry paper, they are also marked, put into several specially sewn cotton bags according to the time of sowing, and then stored in a ventilated and cool place, but they can be retained for many years.
Therefore, although this year has been stormy and rainy, there are hardly many useful seeds left in the family, but there are still a lot of seeds that my grandmother has preserved before and has not used up.
The spring flowers in the field are all planted, and the men are still busy dredging the ditches and rebuilding the ridges in the field, and the women have to hurry up and work on the vegetable fields.
The girls in the family have roughly cleaned up the vegetable patch, the two small ones of pepper and bay leaves are responsible for picking up the debris in the field, and the dill is with fennel and cloves, and the two push up and fill in the low and turn the sun to level the land, but the next work is not what these little girls can do.
The vegetable garden of the pepper family was actually behind the house when it was in the hands of the original grandfather and grandmother, and the current livestock pen is the original site. Later, as the head of the family became more and more prosperous, but the vegetable garden of one or two points of land was not enough, so it was slowly cultivated along the foot of the mountain to the east. More than 30 years have passed, and it has long since become a climate, but it doesn't look very regular.
All of them are cultivated along the mountain, and they are inevitably scattered horizontally and vertically. Either there is an extra piece of land in the horizontal area here, or a piece of land is dragged out of the corner of the box.
Anyway, it is an ownerless wasteland, so I simply took this opportunity to replan.
This thought just appeared in the hearts of Qin Lao Niang and the others, and it was infinitely magnified, and the more she thought about it, the better it became, but she had a heart.
Just do it, Qin Lao Niang took her daughter-in-law and granddaughter and began to reclaim the land along the mountain. They are all meticulous people, or they don't do it, and once they start their work, they won't be sloppy at all. Not only is the measurement clear, but also the twine must be kept horizontal and vertical.
After it was easily regulated, it was divided into six roughly uniform pieces, leaving a gap of more than four feet wide between the blocks, which was too busy for the time being, but it was ready to wait for the farmers to be idle and then weave a bamboo fence to separate them slightly.
In fact, the previous vegetable plot at home was also so exquisite, although it was not so regular, but it was also roughly separated and arranged by Qin Lao Niang. In this way, beans and grains, melons, solanaceae, leafy vegetables, alliums, yams and sesame seeds are planted. Every six years, different kinds of melons and vegetables are planted on these six plots of land every year. Not only will the yield not be reduced due to continuous planting, but the soil will not be sick and weak, and melons and vegetables will naturally grow especially well.
This is the life experience that Qin Lao Niang has accumulated for a long time, and it is also the secret of the Qin family's daughters.
Sichuan pepper has benefited a lot from following her grandmother.
It's easy to say, but it's not an easy task to divide such a neat rectangular piece of land with a width of twenty-four paces and a depth of thirty paces.
At least the ladies of the family got up early and worked in the vegetable field for more than two days before they roughly settled into two points.
And the mother and the others were divided in front, and the pepper and the sisters followed the grandmother's division and followed behind to order beans and vegetables.
It's just that this is already the mid-autumn chrysanthemum moon, and the vegetables that can be grown are limited. Grandmother took out a cotton bag, which was mostly leafy and green vegetables that could be overwintered, as well as a large bag of pea seeds and a few colored radish seeds.
Digging holes, filling soil, watering, such work has sisters running water, pepper and bay leaves as long as they are responsible for planting. It's just such a job, and it was also won by Huajiao with a lot of effort, because she still "doesn't know how to count".
PS: Did the sisters watch the opening ceremony~