Chapter 105: Harvesting Potatoes

The family's income gradually increased, and Li Xin was also very happy.

The watermelons on a few acres of land at home are selling very well, the shopkeeper Sun helped introduce some buyers, and Mrs. Zheng also helped promote it in the county, so the sales of watermelons are not worried. The watermelons grown by Li Xin's family are not only big and make people like them when they look at them, but they are also very sweet, and those who have tasted them will praise the melons as good.

Now that the weather is getting hotter day by day, watermelons are not expensive, as long as there is a little money left, people will buy a few and go back to taste them. It's not that there are no richer people in the town, and no one grows watermelons here, so Li Xin's family bought a lot of watermelons in the town alone. And there are more wealthy families in the county, and there are many people who are familiar with the Zheng family, and as soon as Mrs. Zheng publicizes, many people come to Osmanthus Village to buy watermelons.

And on the Zhuangzi, the cherry tomatoes have also matured in batches, the cherry tomatoes are good-looking, and the taste is also very good, and there are still many people who come to buy them. Pinxiangge also bought a lot, and it was good to make a fresh fruit plate. And the chili peppers are naturally supplied to Pinxiangge, and there is no need to find another buyer, so there is no need for Li Xin to be busy at all.

Shopkeeper Sun also prepared a lot, and let people send it to the capital quickly. This is also Mrs. Sun's order, let the shopkeeper Sun send a copy of everything produced by Li Xin's family to the capital. First, I tried it, and second, I really wanted to know how many fresh things Li Xin had in his hands.

And it was the hot March, and the few acres of potatoes planted in the Zhuangzi were also harvested. Taking advantage of the fact that Wenbo was on a break for a few years, Li Xin took a group of children to Zhuangzi.

The Zhuangzi is busy at the time, and many people are busy, some are picking all kinds of ripe vegetables and vegetables, and some are tending to the crops in the fields, all of them are very busy. Even Wang Fu and his wife are also very busy, they have to check everywhere, sometimes they have to guide other people to work, and many times they will follow everyone to the ground.

At this time, the scenery on Zhuangzi is also beautiful. At a glance, there is a green scene everywhere, and the green is gratifying. Large swaths of peppers and tomatoes, all ripe, look very beautiful, and large red tomatoes hang, like red lanterns. And all kinds of beautiful big persimmon peppers are also like various colored lanterns, and the large pieces are dazzling. It's just ordinary red peppers, and it's also a tree full of green and red peppers, which is really pleasing to look at.

The sweet potato vines also grow very well, and the large patches are green and lush, so fresh and tender, it really looks very appetizing.

All the way, all the way, several children are very happy, running everywhere, sometimes going into the field. Seeing the red cherry tomatoes and tomatoes, Wen Hao would also take a few children in to pick them and eat them.

"It's delicious." Yueting also picked a lot of cherry tomatoes and carried them around in her clothes, and ran to Li Xin's side for Li Xin to eat.

"Little gluttonous cat, the face is spent." Li Xin took a handkerchief and gave Yueting the holy juice that was stained on her face. After wiping Yueting's little flower face, she took a cherry tomato and wiped it and threw it into her mouth. With a gentle bite, the sweet taste of cherry tomatoes spreads in your mouth, and it is very delicious.

It's really delicious.

It took a while for the children to come out of the field, and everyone picked a lot of cherry tomatoes and tomatoes, and ate happily.

"It's really fun to be on Zhuangzi, we will come next time we take a break in the middle of the year, and the eldest sister said it's not good?" Wen Hao looked at Li Xin with a flattering face, afraid that Li Xin would reject him.

"As long as you study hard in the academy and listen to Mr. well, then I will bring you here." Li Xin smiled and rubbed Wen Hao's head.

"We will definitely study hard, and we will listen to Mr. Zhou." Seeing that Li Xin agreed, Wen Hao ran away with a smile and went to have fun.

It didn't take long to arrive at the field where potatoes were planted, and there were not many potatoes, so only six acres of land were planted, and it was really just a small piece of land on such a large village. The potato flowers have already bloomed, and at this time, there are still a few small green round fruits on the potatoes.

Potatoes will absorb a lot of nutrients when they bloom and bear fruit, so when planting potatoes, Li Xin has already explained to Wang Fu and his wife, and when the potatoes are about to bloom, they will pick the potato flowers, so at this time, there are not many green fruits, just a few bunches.

"I want to eat potatoes." Looking at a few acres of potatoes, Yue Ting shouted noisily, and her saliva was going to stay. Potatoes are so delicious! But the family hasn't eaten it a few times. Last year, the family harvested a lot of potatoes, but most of them were sold by the eldest sister, and the family did not keep much. The eldest sister also said that she wanted to keep it for seeding, but she was always reluctant to take it out and eat it.

"Little gluttonous cat, I'll let you eat enough later." Li Xin poked Yueting's forehead with his finger. Only then did I stand in the potato field, and the large potato seedlings had fallen to the ground, but they were still green, and they did not look very yellow. Even if the potatoes haven't wilted yet, they're still going to be harvested. It's getting hotter and hotter, and the potatoes buried in the ground won't grow anymore.

It was decided that the potatoes would be harvested today, and Wang Fu and his wife had already brought people to wait here a long time ago, and the tools they needed were also ready. Li Xin went down to the field first, took a sickle and cut off the potato seedlings, leaving a small section on the roots, looking at the small section of potato seedlings left, you can probably estimate where the potatoes are in the ground.

After cutting a small piece of potato seedlings, Li Xin stopped first, took a hoe and carefully dug the potatoes out of the soil. You have to be careful in this process and estimate where the potatoes are located correctly, otherwise, you are likely to dig the potatoes into several cloves with a hoe. Potatoes that have been dug up are not only unsightly, but they are also unstoreable.

Li Xin demonstrated how to dig potatoes while explaining to the people watching around him. When Li Xin dug out half a basket of potatoes, he stopped, and people began to slowly learn to dig. Some people cut the potato seedlings with a sickle first, some dig in the back, and some pick up the potatoes at the back and pack them up basket by basket so that they can be easily carried.

Wen Hao's children also watched the fun, so they followed the back to pick up potatoes, and used a small shovel to rummage in the soil behind to see if any potatoes were left in the soil.

The job of digging potatoes is not difficult to learn, it just depends on whether you have the patience. After all, be careful, digging out the potatoes little by little is not a very short process, it is very necessary to be patient, as long as you are impatient, you want to dig up quickly, it is likely to dig the potatoes badly. The people on the village are used to doing farm work good crops, and they are naturally very fast to learn, and they are not used to it at first, and they are already digging in a good way.

Seeing the good production of potatoes, the people in Zhuangzi were very happy. For farmers, there is nothing more pleasing than the high yield in the field