Volume 1 Chapter 11 Sweet Potatoes Sweet potatoes!
For this reason, I spent most of the next two days clearing the stones and some of the tree stumps in this field, and finally cleared some of them!
Although it doesn't look like a vegetable field, it looks like an open field that has been trampled by cattle countless times, but with the current conditions, there is no way to demand anything, there is a piece of land that can be centrally managed and harvested the found crops, even if the yield is extremely low for a while, it is better than nothing!
I believe that with enough time in the future, I will be able to slowly improve and improve the land, and I will always be able to change this land into the ideal shape.
Having barely had a piece of land, now I'm thinking about collecting a little more seeds for planting on a large scale later.
Human beings evolved from the primitive era to the agricultural era, and at the beginning, Ru Mao drank blood but was almost unable to eat and clothe, and in the later slash and burn cultivation, although the yield was very low, it was busier every day.
But it is undeniable that as long as there are no natural and man-made disasters, it is better than hunting and picking wild fruits in the primitive era!
Maybe God has mercy on me, maybe it's really lucky, but in short, today is another day to remember!
In the morning, while exploring the woods, I again discovered a common staple food, and found a few sweet potato plants in a very harsh grass......
The moment I found them, I almost fainted with joy!
I prefer sweet potatoes to corn, not only because they taste greater, but in such an environment, corn can easily fail to harvest, and sweet potatoes have no worries about that.
There are a total of five sweet potato plants on the ground, but they are all in a very poor state, and the growing environment is worse than that of corn, almost completely obscured by weeds.
Most of the nutrients in the land are absorbed by weeds and thorns, and a few sweet potatoes are just picking up some leftover nutrients and hanging for their lives.
At first glance, I thought it was a few pea seedlings, but if it wasn't close enough to it, and if I was more careful when I looked at it, I would almost miss them!
Of course, if you miss them, you miss out on foods that can make a big difference in my life, and it's not an exaggeration to say "significant" to describe its importance!
Luckily, I found out, and it's very much to celebrate.
Sweet potatoes are sweet and soft in taste, and they will not get tired of eating three meals a day, making them an ideal staple food......
Sweet potatoes can provide ingredients from the beginning of planting, and the sweet potato leaves that grow can be used as vegetables to solve some of the problems of vegetable shortage, and sweet potatoes can be used as staple food for a long time when they grow up.
Its growth requirements for the environment are also relatively simple, it only needs enough light to grow well, especially on the island, which has a high sand content, which is the most suitable soil for it.
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More critically, the climate at sea is unpredictable, often accompanied by high winds and heavy rains, and it is not as delicate as corn.
Throughout the growing season, there is a fear that the corn will be pressed to the ground by a strong wind, and in severe cases, there is a possibility that the grains will not be harvested!
Having said all this, I just want to express the importance of sweet potatoes and my love for them, as long as they are grown on a large scale, the conditions are in place to survive on this island.
After calming down my excitement a little, I cleared the weeds within two or three meters of a few sweet potato plants, and finally only a few sweet potato seedlings remained on the bare ground, and finally I saw the sun.
In front of me are a few extremely unhealthy Teng vines, if you use people as a comparison, it is estimated that it is a super thin person who weighs only sixty or seventy pounds due to stunted growth.
And curiosity made me gently dig the soil on the surface of the roots of the vines, and the fruit that greeted me looked really inconspicuous!
Small, even pitiful, if calculated according to the normal season, it should be at least the size of an egg by now, and the fruit in the field is about the size of a thumb, which shows how miserable life is!
And I can't help much with the situation of sweet potatoes for a while, except for cleaning up the weeds, I just sprinkle urine in the hope that this can provide a little bit of fertility, and the subsequent growth still depends on them.
I wanted to clear the weeds and move on, but in order to prevent a few sweet potatoes, which are so precious to me, from being damaged by small animals or the like, I finally took some protective measures.
It is mainly made of half-human-high branches and leaves piled around them to make an alternative wall, although it cannot completely prevent destruction, but at least it can reduce the probability of destruction.
Whether or not they can develop normally in the next step is up to them, but the location of the sweet potatoes is marked before leaving, so that they can find it more quickly next time.
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If all goes well, after two or three months, the sweet potatoes should be able to harvest five to ten catties of sweet potatoes, although this yield is two days' food for consumption, but this is the seed of hope!
As long as I can survive until the scale of corn and sweet potatoes expands, I will never have to worry about starving to death again.
It's really stressful right now, and I can clearly feel that most of the coconuts on the island have been picked up by me, and it takes luck to pick up a few when I go out!
Sweet potatoes and corn are not much different in importance, they are the two most important crops discovered since I came to the island, and finding corn a few days ago gave me a lot of confidence.
Growing corn well will ensure that you can barely survive on this island, and now that you have found sweet potatoes, I think you will be able to survive even better......
In addition to the major discovery of sweet potatoes, I also found a few pineapple trees and a few wild vegetables, but unfortunately the pineapple ripening period has long passed, and I can only wait until the first half of next year to eat pineapples.
Every time I come to the woods, I always find something new because of the different paths and the different viewing angles, which is also an alternative comfort to me, otherwise it would be meaningless to explore the woods!
It's just that this activity stops when the woods are explored, which basically means that all the crops that can be used are those species that can be found.
As soon as I came back, I planted a few wild plants that I had just dug up into the ground, and although they could solve the problem of food and clothing for a while, it was also very necessary to collect wild vegetable seeds and expand the scale until I found better vegetable seeds.
The difference is that they are much less important, and they will be collected and transplanted on the spot after they are found, while corn and sweet potatoes are too small and more precious, so they can only be protected in situ because they are worried about the survival of transplanting.
In the past two days, there has been no food harvest, and the net consumption has left little food at home, which has reached the point where it needs to be solved urgently.
After taking a breath and resting for a while, I went fishing again in the afternoon, and in the short term it may be that fishing is only a stable and substantial source of food.
After experiencing the danger of getting the bucket two days ago, I brought the swimming ring before going to the sea today, and it provided me with a part of the buoyancy belt net to swim and get off the net, which can save a lot of unnecessary physical strength.
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The process is still hard, but after a few fishing skills, the skills are more skilled, especially in the netting, it basically only takes three to five minutes to surround the entire bay, and the fish that are not alert enough will become the turtle in the urn.
The harvest is still good, and six fish are harvested in one net, the weight is estimated to be more than ten catties, and there is a grouper with relatively good flesh.
It's just that the way fish is preserved is a big headache for me, and now my mind is full of thinking about how great it would be if I had a refrigerator or freezer that could be cooled properly, so that I could eat fresh fish at any time, even if it didn't taste good, it would be much more delicious than dried fish!
At the same time, you can also catch dozens of catties of fish at a time, and you don't need to fish again for a long time, and the current situation is that you will catch fish every three or four days to ensure that you can eat more fresh fish.
It was obviously much faster to deal with the fish with a knife, but after a few fish got down, the sun was also saying goodbye to me on the distant horizon, and today's work was only to go to the top of the mountain to fetch water.
In the blink of an eye, I have been on this desert island for half a month, and time has passed unhappily!
Thinking of the life in the past half a month, the miserable degree is almost to the point where the listener is sad and the listener is crying, living a life of sleeping on the ground every day, not enough to eat and wear, no electricity and electrical appliances, and no one to speak!
This kind of life makes people lose no hope, makes me full of confusion, and the hardest thing to endure is the loneliness of being alone.
You are alone when you eat, you are alone when you are doing things, you are also alone when you sleep, and you don't even have a person to talk about the tragic experience in your heart!
Even if a dog or a cat can hang in front of me all day long and bark at me twice, my life can be lived to the fullest, but now life is so lonely......
What's even more desperate is that I haven't seen a ship on the sea for half a month, let alone a plane passing by in the sky, and I don't know if the island is too far away from the wrecked cruise ship or I didn't see it when it passed by, but the results of half a month are really disheartening!
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If the large-scale rescue operation of the cruise ship search and rescue did not find me, I think the chance of wanting to leave this island in the future will only be very small, and half a month has passed, and I don't need to think about it to know that the best opportunity has been missed by me......
On the other hand, the fact that no ships or aircraft have passed by for so long means that it is very remote, and the chances of wanting to leave are even slimmer!
When I think of this, I have a very strong sense of crisis, and I am very worried that I will not be able to leave this island for the rest of my life!!
But after thinking about it too much, it makes people seem panicked, and they can't calm down for a long time.
Clearing the gloom in my mind, survival is the most important thing at the moment, and no one can guarantee that one day I will be lucky enough to find the ship taking me away!
Since sweet potatoes and corn are still a long time away, and there is no certainty as to whether they will be harvested, I am ready to take back a few more cassava plants that I found.
Digging wild cassava is very laborious, and most of its fruits are drilled into the ground to a depth of more than 50 cm, and the feeling of digging is similar to digging He Shou Wu when I was a child!
However, the harvest is still worthy of the sweat paid, and a few plants have dug up a total of about 15 catties, at least saving a little can ensure a week's demand.