391. Build a greenhouse (thank you friends for support)
This year's Newfoundland suffered a snow disaster, and there was another layer of snow on New Year's Eve, but fortunately, the snow was not strong, and it stopped at two o'clock in the morning, so Qin Shiou got up the next day to see that there was not much snow in the yard.
The sea around the island is full of warm currents, and there are geothermal hot springs in the Daqin fishing ground, so that the snow melts and the frozen ground becomes soft.
On the first day of the new year, Qin Shiou went to the vegetable field of the fishery to take a look, hey, the vegetable field is not stiff, and it is completely possible to plant vegetable seedlings and then build a greenhouse.
This discovery made him very happy, and when Shaq and his party got up with their drunken heads, he gathered them together and prepared to plant a greenhouse.
Shaq drove to the town to borrow a plough and quickly turned over the vegetable field twice, after all, it was winter, and a lot of frozen soil was close together, and it was difficult to clean up.
The sea monster shook his head and said, "Boss, although I would love to eat fresh vegetables from our fishery, I have to admit that now is not a good time to grow vegetables. ”
Qin Shiou smiled: "Don't worry, man, you have met my parents and know their identity, they are all expert-level vegetable farmers, I have learned from them several times, and it is definitely no problem to grow vegetables now." ”
That being said, then the sea monster has nothing to say, shrug his shoulders and get to work. Speaking of which, the vegetables produced in the vegetable field @⌒ before tasted really good.
The New Year's Day holiday, coupled with heavy snowfall, Grant Elementary School recently had a small winter vacation, and Shirley and they have been resting at home.
Winnie took them to clean up the last few vegetables in the field, mainly turnips and cabbage.
Gordon and Michelle shouted 'pluck the turnips' and pulled out the remaining turnips in the field and followed Winnie to the freezer.
After all, it is a variety that has been transformed by Poseidon Energy, and the green radish produced in the vegetable field is not spicy. There is a faint sweetness, Qin Shiou can only explain to the outside world that this is a fruit radish. So Winnie and the others really came to eat it as fruit, and Xiong Da and Pineapple especially liked it.
Radish clears the stomach and intestines. Xiong Da and the pineapple fart after eating it, and they find it interesting regardless of the occasion.
After cleaning up, it's time to set up the greenhouse.
Auerbach had a strange enthusiasm for farming, and he squatted on the ground and asked, "Qin, what type of greenhouse are we planting this time?" Steel pipe greenhouse or bamboo and wood round arch greenhouse? ”
Canada's greenhouse planting vegetables is very particular, and Newfoundland is relatively small, such as Winnie's hometown grassland three provinces, which are large greenhouse growers. Many farmers have built greenhouses to grow vegetables.
Qin Shiou doesn't need to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables, as long as he uses a greenhouse, anyway, he usually has nothing to do, and it is more interesting to clean up the plastic greenhouse.
Generally speaking, Canada's plastic greenhouses are divided into two types because of different supports, that is, steel pipe greenhouses and bamboo and wood round arch greenhouses, the former is supported by galvanized thin-walled steel pipes, and the latter is bamboo strips and wooden sticks.
Qin Shiou advocates pure nature, so he waved his hand and said that he wanted to use bamboo and wood round arch greenhouses. Auerbach went to call Bill.
Newfoundland's marine companies are agricultural companies after all, but they are mainly seafood, and they also have farm-related seeds and equipment.
Bill quickly sent a batch of greenhouse equipment, and he personally led the team. After coming to the fishing ground, he said with great interest: "Hey, Qin, why are you interested in doing this?" I've seen rich people grow their own vegetables and eat them. But I've never seen a rich man like you planting a greenhouse, it's too hard. Isn't it? ”
Qin Shiou smiled: "You made two mistakes, man. One, I'm not a rich man; Second, planting greenhouses is actually not very difficult, and it is much easier than your sales. ”
Bill shook his head and said, "No, no, I'll still be my salesman, as long as I can meet a big customer like you every year, then I don't have to worry about no vegetables to eat, haha." ”
Following Qin Shiou, Bill did make a lot of money, for example, some time ago when he bought lobster seedlings and sea cucumber seedlings, he earned a small commission of 100,000 yuan.
The workers brought by Bill unloaded the bamboo sticks, and Qin Shiou signed a check for him, and the deal was successful.
The steel pipe greenhouse has a long lifespan, which can reach 15 years, but the bamboo strips and wooden sticks that Bill sent to Qin Shiou are charcoal-roasted and then treated with tung oil, and the life span is much longer than that of ordinary wooden and bamboo scaffolding, which can reach about ten years.
Don't look at these brackets are just wood and bamboo, but the price is more expensive than thin-walled steel pipes, and the greenhouse that Bill chose for Qin Shiou is the most expensive, because he knows Qin Shiou's consumption concept, only buy the best, not the most affordable.
These scaffolds, which are mainly made of bamboo and small logs, are about 2 meters high and 4 to 5 meters wide, and are equipped with drawings for use. Bill is proficient in the business, and it's not for nothing that he can make a lot of money.
Because of the first lobster cooperation Qin Shiou let him go, Bill has always been grateful to Qin Shiou, and today he took the initiative to stay and guide the group to build a greenhouse, so that the project will be much faster.
Qin Shiou changed places and reclaimed two greenhouses, each vegetable field is 6 meters wide, 200 meters long, and the planting area is a terrifying 1,000 square meters.
Indeed, for an amateur like him, these two greenhouses are too big. But there is no way, this kind of greenhouse is in accordance with the large specifications, if the length is too short, the plastic tarpaulin can not be opened at all, and some supporting equipment can not be installed.
Soon, a row of brackets was erected, and pieces of bamboo were attached to them, like the skeleton of a tent in a small barracks.
"So, now what we're going to do is cover it with plastic film, what kind of film did you bring with you? Polyethylene or PVC? Qin Shiou rubbed his hands and asked.
Bill instructed Nelson and Bird to pull open the plastic film, and laughed: "Man, you are underestimating me like this, how can a greenhouse worth 150,000 yuan use such an ordinary film?" What I bring to you is a multifunctional longevity film. ”
Qin Shiou smiled: "So powerful? Why haven't I heard of it? ”
"I'm not exaggerating, it's really the best kind of plastic film, made by adding the right amount of anti-aging material and surfactant to the polyethylene blow molding process," Bill explains. It is thinner and more transparent, but it is particularly strong, has a service life twice as long as ordinary film, and can be 1 to 2C warmer than traditional plastic film at night. ”
Because of the sea breeze hunting, it is more complicated to cover the plastic film, Qin Shiou and others all went into battle, laying the brackets one by one, and it took nearly an hour to cover the two films on the bamboo skeleton.
The plastic film is matching, and the outside is also connected to the polyethylene high-foam flexible sheet.
This is a white bubble-like plastic sheet, 1 meter wide and 0.4-0.5 centimeters thick, which can be hung on the plastic film piece by piece like tank armor. The function is also similar to that of tank armor, protecting the plastic film from destruction, and also acting as a thermal insulator.
It took a day, and with the efforts of Ji Qì and so many people, the two greenhouses were finally built before the sun set.
In the end, Bill and Qin Shiou hung the curtain door together and closed the positions on both sides of the plastic film, so that the greenhouse was roughly built.
Looking at these two powerful greenhouses like military camps, Qin Shiou was satisfied, and said with a smile: "On the first day of the new year, we have done a great thing, very good, this is a good sign!" (To be continued......)