Chapter 21: Cherry Tomatoes

Someone once described the climate of the southwest region in this way, cool in spring, hot in summer, cool in autumn, and cold in winter, which is a rough division, and each season has an obvious perceived temperature.

But what's interesting is that this change is not a one-way gradient, but a process of repeated twists and turns, from summer to autumn, you can feel from hot to refreshing, but the feeling of heat will not disappear all at once, and the refreshing taste cannot be experienced from time to time.

When one day, you can no longer find a trace of heat, the refreshing taste fades, and winter, is coming.

Today's bamboo building has changed a lot compared with when it was first built. On the northeast side of the bamboo building, there is a simple greenhouse built of bamboo and transparent plastic film, in the shape of a square bar, Yunli put the seeds of flowers and plants bought in the flower and bird market into this place to cultivate. On a whim, Yunli also gave this greenhouse a name, carved three big characters of "Jifangyuan" on the wooden board, and hung it at the entrance with grass and rattan.

Due to the space and financial constraints, Jifang Garden is not much, there are not many flowers and plants cultivated in it, as soon as you walk in, the first thing you see is the long bamboo row in the middle that is made of long and thick bamboo tubes, on the bamboo nodes of each bamboo tube, there are two circular openings, the bamboo tubes are filled with nutrient solution, and there are some strawberry plants on it, which look good, but there are few flowering ones.

The facilities in the park are very simple, there are several small sun lamps hanging on the ceiling, which are used for heating, and there is also a mercury thermometer hanging on the supporting bamboo in the middle, which is dual-purpose, which can not only detect the temperature, but also show the dryness and humidity of the air in the garden.

On both sides of the garden, there are long hydroponic bamboo tubes, from bottom to top, inclined to four layers, each layer is about one-third of a meter apart, to ensure the light and growth space of the plants. Nowadays, there are some unknown flowers and plants scattered on it, and the growth is gratifying.

Further inside, you will find a variety of bonsai and a small experimental field separated by a low fence with various unknown flower seedlings.

These are the results of Yunli since the establishment of Jifang Garden, obviously, soil culture is much more than hydroponics, maybe it is the first contact with hydroponics this planting method, Yunli has not yet touched the trick, but also summed up some experience, I believe that a few more batches of plants, can take a bigger step forward.

In the yard, the lawn seeds sown before have been quite effective, and the muddy land that was bare before has now been replaced by patches of verdant lawns, although some places have not yet grown completely, but they have already made Yunli very satisfied.

Now whether it is eating, reading or resting, as long as it is not windy or rainy, Yunli likes to do these things on the lawn, and for him, there is nothing more comfortable than this.

In the northwest of the bamboo building, the fruit trees planted before are still the same as before, and they have not changed much. On the edge of the low bamboo fence in the yard, ryegrass was planted before, but now it has been replaced by a variety of exotic flowers and plants, although it is not yet the flowering season, but you can still see some small flowers that bloom proudly against the season, attracting many insects to stop and play.

On the south side of the farmland, the 15 acres of potato fields that were originally planted had been harvested two weeks ago, and now a new batch of potato seedlings has been planted, and the area has also expanded to 20 acres.

As expected, the yield of these 15 acres of potatoes has been greatly improved compared with the first batch in terms of yield and proportion of excellent products. Thirteen acres of white-skinned potatoes, the total output of more than 60,000 catties, the average yield per mu is about 5,000 catties, and the yield per mu is nearly 2,000 catties higher than that of the first batch. In terms of the proportion of excellent products, excellent products and good products each account for one-third, which is quite good.

And the two acres of experimental purple heart potato land, the table is not bad, two acres of land produced a total of 4,000 catties of purple heart potatoes, the proportion of excellent products is just half of the appearance, for the purple heart potato variety, it is already quite good.

It was Lao Luo and his wife who came to buy potatoes, and because of the larger output this time, Hadron also came to help. After seeing Yunli's achievements, Lao Luo did not hesitate to praise Yunli, and praised Yunli as Buffett in the planting industry and Yuan Longping in the potato industry.

Although this is exaggerated to the point of being a little outrageous, these days, Yunli's expression in planting ability has completely convinced everyone, and many farmers want to come to Yunli's approach, learn from the planting experience, and hope to get Yunli's point.

The reason for this achievement is due to the electromagnetic force, which is the cornerstone of Yunli's success, but it cannot be ignored that without Yunli's hard work and patient research, this achievement would also be impossible to achieve.

Although Yunli can't share the electromagnetic force, he has studied the growth laws and habits of potatoes quite deeply, and he can be regarded as half an expert, and he is also happy to share these experiences with everyone, discuss the planting experience together, and learn from each other. Gradually, in the eyes of the villagers, Yunli is no longer an outsider, and even those farmers who often come to Xiaolushan to do odd jobs have regarded Yunli as a small backer, and only his horse is the first to look forward.

Thirteen acres of white-skinned potatoes have 60,000 yuan in the account, and the two acres of purple-hearted potatoes have nearly 10,000 yuan in the account. The price of purple-hearted potatoes is much higher than that of white-skinned potatoes, and the purchase price of high-quality potatoes is about three yuan, and the price of high-quality Lao Luo is even more than three yuan and five, and the price of medium-quality potatoes is more than one piece.

In terms of profits, planting purple potatoes is a little more than white-skinned potatoes, and with the accumulation of planting experience, this gap still has room to widen, so the latest batch of 20 acres of potatoes planting distribution is, white-skinned potatoes and purple-hearted potatoes account for half each, and seek progress in stability.

The five acres of experimental fields continue to be retained, and during this time, there are crops ripening in the fields one after another, although the number is not much, but the purchasing station is still very willing to come to buy, not too troublesome at all. Lao Luo also packed tickets to Yunli, even if there were only three feet of agricultural products, they were on call.

After this period of observation, Yunli has a general understanding of the crops in the experimental field, and also summed up the corresponding planting plan, after several considerations, consulting everyone's opinions, and the recommendation of Lao Luo, a professional, Yunli finally selected the small tomatoes as the latest batch of crops to try to plant in large quantities.

Small tomatoes, also often called cherry tomatoes, originated in South America on the other side of the ocean, according to legend, in the Han Dynasty in China, some people began to plant cherry tomatoes.

The name of cherry tomatoes also has a great origin. Legend has it that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, one autumn, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was seriously ill, and the doctors were helpless, and the palace was anxious. One day, a palace maid named Sheng, found a fiery red fruit on a certain plant in the back garden, and picked it to show the concubine.

The concubine didn't know what it was, and there was no answer to ask the imperial doctor, and she was confused and helpless, but the voice of Emperor Wu of Han came, and everyone didn't care about the fruit, so they put it on the table and went to see Emperor Wu of Han. Who knew that after a gust of breeze, the fiery red fruit turned into a cloud of green smoke, drifting into the palace of Emperor Wu of Han with the wind, and within a few days, Emperor Wu of Han miraculously recovered.

No one knew the reason, and no one remembered the fiery red fruit, only the palace maid saint had been thinking about it, but then she walked all over the harem and could not find it again. In the autumn of the second year, the harem garden was full of that kind of fiery red fruit, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty learned that it was the latest discovery of the palace maid saint, so he named it "holy tomato fruit".

The veracity of this legend is no longer known, but scientific studies have shown that cherry tomatoes do have healing properties. Its fruit contains special substances that can promote development, enhance the body's resistance, delay aging, and even have a miraculous effect of preventing cancer. Because of this, cherry tomatoes are extremely popular and are treasures among fruits for modern people who advocate a green and healthy life.

The cherry tomatoes are very adaptable, can be planted in many places, and the growth time is short, the plant life is long, and it can be picked in many seasons, which is very in line with Yunli's requirements. Cherry tomato seedlings are now planted in nearly eight acres of land to the west of the potato field, and if there is no accident, the first harvest will be available next spring.

Yunli is a variety called ruby, which is characterized by heat and humidity resistance, strong adaptability, high yield, long harvest period, and the most important point is that it is resistant to storage and transportation. Here, the efficiency of freight circulation is not high, the preservation technology is not perfect, the agricultural products from the field, to the market, the supermarket shelves, it takes a certain amount of time, the more resistant the agricultural products are to storage, the more they can maintain their value.

On the southernmost ridge, the two rows of papayas are growing well, already half an adult tall, but there is still a long time before they leave the flowers to bear fruit.

This more than 30 acres of cultivated land is already the maximum that Xiaolushan can use now, and further west, it is all dry land, and there are no wells to dig for the time being. During the rainy season, Yunli sowed a lot of ryegrass seeds in this area, but they didn't grow much, and it seems that the matter of diverting water is imminent.

The wood magnetic array has been laid down for a while, although it has not shown much effect, but the transplanted redwood trees have quickly adapted to the climate in the southwest region, coupled with Yunli's careful cultivation, I believe that it will not be long before it can exert its due effect.

Yunli also used cuttings to cut suitable branches on those large sequoia trees, and cultivated a large number of sequoia saplings, with more than 100 numbers, to prepare for the expansion of the wood magnetic array in the future. In addition, he bought a batch of persimmon trees and sweet orange saplings, and injected electromagnetic force into them like he had cultivated redwood trees, hoping that they could become the carrier of the wood magnetic array like the redwood trees.

The persimmon tree and the sweet orange tree are among the fruit trees, which are the ones with taller trunks, and after the Yunli test, both kinds of trees can better absorb electromagnetic force and maintain the operation in the body, although not as good as the sequoia tree, but can also meet his requirements.

Yunli still needs to do more experiments to build a more diverse wood magnetic array, which is very important, he can't pin all his hopes on the wood magnetic array of the redwood tree, with more choices, the space he can play is much broader, and there is no harm in everything.