However, for this year's spring ploughing, Marin plans to play with some flowers. For example, instead of growing only rye, we plan to grow some wheat......

The wheat planted in the spring is, of course, the legendary spring wheat. Of course, this is not available in Europe. Europe's native wheat is currently very pitied. At present, wheat in Europe is generally planted in November of the first year. Then, harvest in October of the following year. Its growth cycle is almost a full year......

And Ma Lin clearly remembered that the winter wheat planted by his family in his previous life was planted in November, and it was harvested in early June of the following year, that is, during the college entrance examination. When the state did not restrict the burning of wheat grass, during the college entrance examination, the smoke of burning wheat grass outside the city could fill the entire county, and people couldn't help but shed tears. Farmers then plant rice and harvest it in October......

But that was the afterlife, and the wheat seed was not the same at all. In addition, the application of phosphate fertilizer in later generations can also promote the early ripening of wheat.

In Europe at this time, there were no early-maturing wheat varieties. In addition, the latitude in Europe is higher than in China in general. For example, in northern Germany, the latitude is similar to the Great Khing'an Mountains in later generations. However, due to the warm current of the North Atlantic, the climate in northern Germany is much warmer than in the Greater Khing'an Mountains.

In fact, it is not that East Asia does not have warm currents. Rather, the Kuroshio Current, the warm current of East Asia, is blocked by the Japanese archipelago and does not affect the Tohoku. If the Japanese archipelago sinks, Tohoku will be much warmer......

There are no seeds of spring wheat in Europe, but Marin has been to Daming. In the Ming Dynasty, spring wheat was grown in the north, and winter wheat was grown in the south of the Yellow River.

Although spring wheat is not as delicious as winter wheat, it is also wheat, isn't it? If you plant dry crops such as millet, the yield will not increase. Even in later generations, the yield of millet per mu is only three or four hundred catties, and rarely more than 500. There is no way, the variety is like that, and it is really difficult to produce high yields.

However, in this era, the northern areas south of the Yellow River were generally rotated with winter wheat and millet. Because, millet has a short growing period. Winter wheat in this era has no phosphate fertilizer, and the growth period is longer than that of later generations. Therefore, the interval is generally made by millet that only needs to grow for three or four months. Later, after the introduction of corn from the Americas, the corn yield was much higher and the growing period was shorter. Then, winter wheat and corn rotation became popular in the northern regions.

Of course, that's the afterlife. In later generations, spring wheat was generally sown north of the Great Wall, because it was too cold north of the Great Wall for winter wheat to withstand the bitter winter.

And in this era, it seems that the weather is a little colder than in later generations. Therefore, the vicinity of Jingshi in the north, including the northern part of North China, is also dominated by the cultivation of spring wheat.

No, when Ma Lin stayed in Daming Jingshi, he took the opportunity to buy a lot of spring wheat seeds. Of course, most of them are seeds of winter wheat.

However, the northern latitude of Germany is too high, and the age is a bit cold. Therefore, winter wheat or something, Marin didn't want to think about it, and it was generally sent to the Americas to be planted.

As for spring wheat, the amount purchased by Marin is not much, only 100,000 catties, which is only enough to plant 5,000 acres of land. But Marin is not greedy, anyway, he has no intention of promoting spring wheat as the main food of the North Sea Country. After all, this place in Beihai is really not suitable for wheat cultivation. Mainly, the accumulated temperature is not enough......

In addition, farmers in the North Sea country are not very suitable for wheat cultivation and management at all. In particular, the management of wheat fields is much more troublesome than that of ryeland.

Rye is tenacious and similar to weeds. After planting rye, farmers have little to worry about weeds. Because rye itself has the vitality of a weed, and weeds may not be able to compete with it.

Wheat, on the other hand, is much more delicate and easy to be "bullied" by weeds. Therefore, it is very troublesome for farmers to go to the field frequently to pull out weeds.

Also, wheat requires more water. Growing wheat requires more water for irrigation. To do this, irrigation ditches need to be dug and ditches are dug in the fields to facilitate flood irrigation of wheat.

Moreover, wheat is not rice, and it cannot be flooded for a long time, so it is necessary to master the time and quantity. Without a certain amount of experience, it is difficult to do it well.

Such a troublesome process, with the IQ of a German rough man of this era, seems a little difficult to understand and troublesome. Therefore, in this era, wheat was generally cultivated on fertile land along the banks of large rivers. On the edge of the big river, it is convenient to set up a water wheel. The waterwheel can irrigate itself and does not require manpower. In order to irrigate wheat, they actually used manpower to tread water wheels like livestock...... Anyway, it is difficult for Europeans of this era to imagine themselves "transforming" into mules and horses to tread water wheels...... Even the Italian side has only learned from the Arab side how to dig irrigation canals and ditches. It is unlikely that they will be asked to tread a water wheel...... Therefore, the wheat producing areas in Europe in this era were generally along the land along the river valleys, and irrigation was very convenient......

Of course, Marin will not let the people step on the water wheel, and there are really not many 5,000 acres of spring wheat. So, he simply selected 5,000 acres of land next to the Ames River in Lyre County to grow spring wheat. And Marin's wheat field on Manhattan Island, because on a small island in the middle of the Hudson River, irrigation is not a problem.

Although, spring wheat is not as tasty as winter wheat. However, that's also wheat. In any case, bread made from wheat flour tastes much better than bread made with rye flour. If the average yield of these 5,000 acres of wheat land is 500 catties per mu, there will also be an output of 2.5 million catties. It is used to make white bread, and it can be made many, many times. If you sell it, you can sell it at a high price. Anyway, there is no spring wheat in Europe, and not many people even eat white bread. If you sell it, you can basically sell it for a high price of 5 pfennig per pound. If 2,500,000 pounds of wheat are sold, there will be more than 40,000 gold coins......

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"Gee, can you grow wheat in the spring?" Marin ordered the planting of spring wheat on the banks of the Emes River in Leale County, which shook the entire North Sea Country. Because, it doesn't make sense.

So, when spring wheat is planted, the riverside is full of people watching the excitement. You know, European wheat is generally sown in November of the first year.

Ma Lin didn't care about the crowd watching the excitement, because he also wanted the people to see the wheat planting process.

In particular, the daily management of wheat needs to be taken care of by farmers. Wheat is not rye, and rye can be planted without it. Wheat is expensive, it needs to be irrigated several times, and it usually has to let people pick weeds in summer. This series of behaviors was not quite the same as the agricultural habits of the German peasantry.

Therefore, Marin planted these 5,000 acres of spring wheat not to promote spring wheat, but to let German farmers see the cultivation and management process of wheat.

After all, many German farmers would be sent to the Americas to grow wheat by Marin. Let them familiarize themselves with the process of wheat management in advance, which can be regarded as a rising insight, so as not to be overwhelmed when they go to the Americas in the future.

As for Manhattan Island, Albert was also lucky to promote wheat cultivation. Because, there is no shortage of water over there. Moreover, Manhattan Island is located in the middle of the Hudson River, and after the weeds are cleared, the weeds outside the island cannot escape. Therefore, it is rarely necessary to pick up weeds. Therefore, the bumper harvest of wheat over there is completely shit luck.

Fortunately, Ma Lin went to Daming this time and brought back a lot of farmers. These people will serve as role models in Manhattan and the Río Plata River basin on the Argentine side, instructing local settlers on how to grow wheat so that the wheat fields are not overwhelmed by weeds......

Marin openly planted spring wheat in Beihai and arranged for a farmer brought back from the Ming Dynasty to guide the serfs in managing the wheat fields, which was actually to cultivate the habits of the German serfs in gathering weeds and managing irrigation. When the first farmers learned well, they were sent to the Americas to lead the immigrants to grow wheat as "masters" of wheat planting......