Devil ginger is delicious but not easy to dig, one is because they are very brittle and easy to break, and devil ginger is easy to be dirty, they can absorb condiments and flavorings well, and they will also easily absorb soil and the like, so they can't be eaten.

Moreover, the place where this devil Jiang lives is on the hillside, and there are smashed stones underneath, and it is not easy to dig with a shovel and a saber, and sometimes he hits the gravel when he goes down, and he has to lift the gravel to dig it out.

After digging for more than ten years and breaking four pieces, Qin Shiou was a little impatient and said, "Otherwise, forget it, don't dig it." ”

Iverson was very patient, and said with a smile: "I'll dig, you go play." ”

When Qin Shiou taught him to dig before, he told him that this thing was delicious, and as long as the work was related to eating, Iverson would be very energetic.

Bird dug there smoothly, he was a master of the knife, a saber in his hand like a spirit snake, Ding Ding picked up the gravel around the devil ginger like a cow, and then cut off the tuber.

Qin Shiou had no choice but to continue digging, he remembered that there were some open spaces on both sides of the small river in the fishing ground, in fact, you can plant devil ginger, so that it will be simple to eat devil ginger in the future, and you can use a machine to dig it.

Devil ginger is a very suitable vegetation for planting in the Canadian region, and it can even be said that it is the most suitable vegetation for human cultivation known to Qin Shiou.

First of all, it is very versatile, the tubers are rich in starch and can be used for human food, while the stems and leaves can be mixed with seaweed to make fish feed.

The tubers are also very rich in food, steamed, boiled, fried, fried, pickled, and eaten, all good, in Qin Shiou's hometown. Devil ginger has always been a good pickle originally; In addition, inulin and alcohol can also be extracted, and inulin is a good medicine for the treatment of diabetes. It is also a valuable industrial raw material.

Secondly, devil ginger is rich in polyfructose-inulin. After extracting it, it can be converted into fructo-oligosaccharides through a complex chemical process, and the high fructo-oligosaccharides contained in fructo-oligosaccharides can be converted into biodiesel after being added to E. coli and through the action of cell factories.

In addition, this thing can also be used as a food and beverage product, and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Taiwan are all producing foods containing inulin and fructooligosaccharides. The inulin extracted from devil ginger has been used in dairy products, lactic acid bacteria drinks, solid drinks, candies, biscuits, jelly and cold drinks.

Qin Shiou has always wanted to make health food, and Devil Jiang is one of the generals. It is especially suitable for making health food and food for the elderly.

Thinking so, Qin Shiou discussed it with Bird, and Bird also knew the devil Jiang, of course, in the United States, it is called Jerusalem artichoke, and they learned to find food from the wild when they were in the army, and Jerusalem artichoke was the first choice.

"Even if we don't use it to make health foods, we can eat a batch of Jerusalem artichoke ourselves, and we can also use it to make wine and drinks, and the branches and leaves will not be wasted," Bird said. Isn't it possible to produce feed? Right? ”

Qin Shiou nodded and said, "You write it down, and let's find a time to plant this thing when we go back." ”

Bird said no problem, and added, "Actually, our fishery is not very suitable for growing this thing. It's better to go to the Daqin No. 3 fishing ground to plant, where the temperature is higher and there is more light. By the way, isn't there another big river? The Jerusalem artichoke root system is particularly well developed. Each Jerusalem artichoke plant has hundreds of roots up to one or two meters long that can be rooted into the soil and can protect the soil and water. ”

Jerusalem artichoke reproduction and expansion are particularly fast. It only takes two to three days to form a protective network of Jerusalem artichoke stems and roots on the surface, which can effectively stabilize the water and soil on the surface.

Qin Shiou nodded. The Daqin fishery is also suitable, Jerusalem artichoke is cold and drought resistant, and the tubers can safely overwinter in the permafrost layer of minus 30 degrees Celsius. In early spring, their seedlings tolerate light frost, and in autumn their adult leaves tolerate short-term sub-zero temperatures. Moreover, it is barren and thin, and the soil requirements are not strict, except for acidic soils, swamps and saline-alkali areas that are not suitable for planting, other places can be planted.

I don't see much devil ginger on Farewell Island, and in most places on the North American continent, devil ginger is very common, and they can be found on the roadside.

Even, in many places, this thing has been treated as disaster vegetation, and Americans and Canadians do not eat it directly, but send it to factories to be reprocessed as raw materials, so for ordinary people, devil ginger is useless.

However, they have super regenerative and reproductive ability, and can reproduce almost forever at a time, as long as they enter the land suitable for their growth, then they can live forever, regardless of the weather:

In the event of a severe drought, even if there is a severe shortage of water, it will only cause all the above-ground stems and leaves to die, and when water appears, the underground stems will sprout and grow again. And if the tubers are broken, each of them can develop a new Jerusalem artichoke tree, which can multiply up to 20 times faster per year!

And they are not afraid of insect plagues, and do not need a lot of nutrients, during the growth period, there is no need to manage, once the formation of a contiguous piece, it is difficult for people and animals to destroy their reproduction and development.

They also produce Jerusalem artichoke seeds in autumn, with a 100% germination rate in situ. And if you don't harvest them, these Jerusalem artichoke seeds will drift to some places with the wind, and as long as they are not in extreme conditions, they will settle down and sprout.

Discussing the method of planting devil ginger, Qin Shiou and the three of them slowly harvested a backpack of tubers.

Later, the tigers and leopards didn't go to catch game, they followed to pull the devil ginger, and the front paws quickly plowed the ground, and a piece of devil ginger could be shoeed out in dozens of seconds, so that Qin Shiou could just pick it up, and the efficiency was greatly increased.

At noon, Qin Shiou roasted some devil ginger and ate it, skewered it with branches, hung it on the fire to roast, or threw it into the bonfire.

Wild Jerusalem artichoke has a higher sugar content, and the flesh exposed after peeling off the skin is covered with gold wires, and it is similar to high-quality sweet potatoes in the mouth, sweet and sandy, and the little girl does not eat meat after eating a bite of roasted devil ginger, and eats it with relish.

On the return trip in the afternoon, he went into the kitchen to clean the devil ginger and cut it into pieces, put it in the jar left by the pickled salted duck eggs, poured in soy sauce and vinegar water, put it in the condiment bag, covered it and marinated it, and he could eat it tomorrow, very quickly.

After finishing his work, Qin Shiou went to the beer hut and poured a large glass of fresh beer, and sat at the door while drinking beer while playing with his daughter.

Shaq went to town for a trip, and when he came back, he said: "Boss, little Hughes asked me to tell you that the town has found a large group of bream from Shenbao Lake, and the day after tomorrow there will be a bream fishing competition, and then there will be a bream feast, and he invites you to participate." ”

Hearing this, Qin Shiou suddenly felt a pain, he remembered those bream in Shenbao Lake, in order to worry about the people of the fossil museum who found them during the development process, he also deliberately sent them to the north sea area of Shenbao Lake, but he didn't expect to be discovered. (To be continued.) )