The leisurely day always passed quickly, and three days passed in a blink of an eye, Li Jiahao walked to his room, and now he lives in the old house, which is the newly renovated house he renovated some time ago. It's convenient to live in your own old house, and no one cares when you go to bed. Eating is still at the third uncle's house, he actually wants to eat by himself, but every time he eats, Jiahui's girl and the third aunt will call him to eat, and it is difficult to be warm, and he still goes to eat every time.

He went straight to the baby elephant's residence, and there were many rooms in his house, so he left a room for the baby elephant. The little whirlwind is in the kennel in the yard. I saw Xiao Dian running to Li Jiahao's feet with an arrow step, holding Li Jiahao's leg and chirping, obviously asking for bamboo shoots to eat. Li Jiahao almost stepped on the small dot, and said distressed and angry: "You little thing, you deserve to be trampled to death." As he spoke, the bamboo shoots that broke the space were thrown to Li Jiahao, and Xiao Dian happily gnawed on the bamboo shoots and chirped.

Thinking about it for a few days, Li Jiahao didn't care about the money turtle, entered the space, and saw the money turtle eating small fish in the clear spring, only to see a palm-sized crucian carp back the money turtle still half eaten, he didn't want to care, let the money turtle eat happily, anyway, there are many fish and yellow eels in the clear spring.

Walking out of the space, entering the baby elephant's residence, I saw the baby elephant eating grass, and saw Li Jiahao walking to the side, the baby elephant wrapped its trunk around Li Jiahao's waist, and rubbed its head on Li Jiahao's body to express welcome. This little elephant really likes itself, and from the moment it wrapped itself in Li Jiahao's leg, it may have known that Li Jiahao is its master in this life. Li Jiahao touched the head of the baby elephant and said with a smile: "Hehe, you like me, right?" ”

As if he could understand, the baby elephant rubbed his body back and forth on Li Jiahao's body, and used his nose to go up and down in the air, playing around. Li Jiahao saw that the water in the pot of the baby elephant was gone, so he hurriedly scooped the spiritual water in the basin, and the baby elephant was very happy when he saw that there was water, and drank a lot with his nose.

Just after feeding the baby elephant and preparing to leave, I saw a group of children come in, the children all hugged a lot of grass, saying that they were here to feed the baby elephant, and saw a puppy in the yard, a five-year-old child named Li Ming was going to hug the little whirlwind, and the little whirlwind saw that someone wanted to hug him, it was a reluctance, and he hurriedly yelled, ran to Li Jiahao's legs, and swirled around Li Jiahao's legs.

"Uncle Jiahao, the puppy won't let me hold it." Li Ming said.

"If you don't let you hug it, forget it, let's feed the baby elephant." Li Jiahao said.

Now the baby elephant is more and more able to eat, the amount of food is large, anyway, I am busy, let the children feed, those bear children have not reached the school grade anyway, it is a good time to play.

Walking out of the little elephant house, Li Jiahao looked at the melon seeds he had planted a few days ago, opened the towel, and saw that the germination rate was still good. Laughing and humming a song, I was about to plant melons.

Li Jiahao's melon seeds are planted in the traditional way. First, wash the melon seeds with water to wash off the sweetness of the melon seeds. Then soak the melon seeds in warm water, the water should not be too cold or too hot. If it's too cold, the sprouts will grow slowly, and if it's too hot, the seeds will burn to death. Then the towel is boiled and wrung out until there are no drips, spread out, and boiling means sterilized. Place the seeds evenly on 1/2 towel, take a bamboo chopsticks and sew it in the towel, cover the other 1/2 towel, roll it into a roll, tie it with a rubber band at both ends, put the towel roll in a transparent plastic bag that does not leak, the bag is naturally inflated, the bag mouth is tied tightly, put it in the arms or quilt, and loosen the bag mouth once a day for ventilation. It will germinate in a few days.

Li Jiahao took two towels wrapped in melon seeds, because he wanted to grow a lot of melons, including watermelons, melons, vegetable melons, and flour melons.

took the melon seeds and walked to the third uncle's house, where the third uncle and grandfather had already built the melon shed and set it up on their own barn. Litang Village generally uses bamboo to build melon sheds, which are all over the mountains and fields, and are called moso bamboo. Moso bamboo is also known as "Nan bamboo", "Mengzong bamboo", "Jiangnan bamboo", "Mao bamboo" moso bamboo stalk is high, the leaves are green, evergreen in all seasons, beautiful and upright, not withered by frost, elegant and vulgar appreciation. Since ancient times, it has been often viewed in gardens, winding paths, ponds, streams, hillsides, stone trails, patios, scenic gates, and indoor bonsai. It is often planted with pine and plum, and is known as the "three friends of the cold year". It is hairless and pollen-free.

The temperature inside the greenhouse was much higher than outside, and Li Jiahao's forehead was faintly sweating. There is fertilizer mixed by the third uncle in the morning in the greenhouse, and they are now starting to fill the small black plastic bowl they bought with soil and fill it. After all the plastic bowls are filled with soil, put the sprouted melon seeds into the small plastic bowls. Then use a plastic film to build a small arch shed, and place the plastic bowls containing the melon sprouts in the arch shed in order. When dry, water it with a touch kettle. Li Jiahao rushed to do the watering thing, because he wanted to use the spiritual water of his own space to water, so that the melon would not only grow well, but also be extraordinarily sweet. This is called vegetative seeding. There is also seed sowing, but this is almost a month later than nutrient sowing.

Seed sowing means that the good melon sprouts are directly sown in the whole field, and the good conditions can be covered with film, and the bad conditions can not be covered. Wait slowly until the buds grow on the surface. This method of sowing is prone to missing seeds. Because there are many animals that specialize in eating seeds, such as squirrels, rats and some insects.

After laying the seeds, the next step is to start sorting out the organic fertilizer, if you want the melons and fruits to be sweet, chicken manure and pig manure are generally better.

Chicken manure and pig manure cannot be scattered directly in the ground, but must be fermented and rotted. Li Jiahao's family uses pig manure, and there is a lot of pig manure anyway. The pig manure is piled together, covered with thick plastic film, and the hot air inside bakes the pig manure so that the pig manure is fermented and rotted and ready to use. Now that the conditions are good, there is plastic film, when there was no before, the villagers used a large bamboo steamer, and the pig manure was steamed on top of the steamer.

Planting melons must be fermented and rotted manure, because the manure that has not been decomposed is directly applied to the soil. The second is that microorganisms participate in fermentation and a large number of activities, consuming oxygen, causing soil hypoxia, which will lead to the death of weaker crops. The third is that the fermentation of manure will produce odors, attract flies and maggots, harm the growth of crops, and the smell can also pollute the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to apply fully decomposed organic fertilizer to ensure that the crop grows and develops well

After the pig manure was ready, it was time to prepare the land, and then the plough was used to make the land into rows and lay it there. The land for growing melons is very particular, and the corn field is generally the most ideal, followed by peanuts and Gantz fields. In recent years, vegetable plots and soybean fields are not suitable for growing watermelons. Sandy loam is preferred, loam is secondary. Watermelons and melons are not cold-tolerant, and are afraid of waterlogging, and need sufficient sunlight throughout the growing season, so choose a plot with sufficient sunshine, higher terrain and convenient drainage.

Choose the land well and stick to crop rotation. Planting watermelon is the most taboo continuous cropping, and crop rotation must be implemented. The interval between planting watermelons should be at least three years, preferably five years. Carry out deep ploughing, crushing soil, and furrowing. In particular, the root system of watermelon is well developed and the distribution is both deep and wide, so the melon field should be deeply cultivated in the first year. Put finely chopped peanut bran and high-quality soil fertilizer into the hole and mix well with fine soil. Do not rake the broken soil after ploughing, so that the soil is fully ripe. When the temperature stabilizes above 15°C in early spring, watermelon planting begins. In fertilization, more good quality peanut bran or sesame bran should be applied as base fertilizer, so that the melon has less fiber, more water, crisp and sweet.

After everything was done, it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and Jiahui's girl was about to get out of school. The third aunt and grandmother were ready to make dinner, and the third uncle, grandfather and Li Jiahao were chatting and smoking on the side.

"Baby, are you tired of doing farm work today?" Grandpa asked with concern.

"What are you tired of, not tired, I'm so young, and besides, didn't I often do such things when I was a child? I didn't feel tired before, and I don't feel it now. Li Jiahao said with a smile and smoking a cigarette.

"Well, tomorrow we're going to plant sweet potatoes, anyway, the melon seedlings will have to wait a month for them to grow. If you don't grow many sweet potatoes, half an acre is enough to eat. The third uncle said with a smile and a cigarette.

"Okay, no problem." Li Jiahao said with a smile.

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