The morning dew is heavy, the morning fog is thick in the mountains, and the visibility is very low. It's not that Xue'er has often taken Huzi with her recently, and Huzi is walking in front, and Xue'er is worried that she will get lost.

The summer morning is breezy and the mountain air is particularly fresh, and when you take a breath, you will be filled with the fresh aroma of plants and trees.

It took two quarters of an hour to overcome the slippery underfoot, and the two of them were able to get there.

At this time, the sky has turned white, and although the light in the forest is not good, there is still no problem with vision.

Cher uses her own scythe to help dig up a potato. Dong Changhe saw these potato vines around him, estimated it, and after knowing it, he also began to dig potatoes with a hoe.

As the withering potatoes were dug up, Dong Changhe's heartbeat became faster and faster.

With that good light, even the yield of one plant can reach nearly ten catties, how can this not make his heart beat faster?

What he didn't say last night was that he wanted to plant this potato in a different dry land, try the yield himself, and then know the yield of one acre. If he could achieve the yield he had just estimated, the discovery of this potato would be enough to make him famous in history.

Of course, this matter still has to be weighed well, how to farm, first of all, he himself figured it out.

However, because he knew how to grow taro, and seeing the growth habits of potatoes, he thought of estimating that the method of planting potatoes is similar to that of growing taro.

But after observing the appearance of potatoes, he boldly guessed that the potatoes might be able to sprout and then cut into pieces for planting.

Of course, he still needs to study it after he goes back and experiment it himself.

Now that it's summer, you can plant a few plants and try them out so that you won't delay planting next year.

There was also a famine in Changhai County, when the locals ate tree bark and grass roots. That's also because of the tradition of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains.

If it weren't for the continuous Jiupan Mountain, it is said that the famine would have been really difficult to survive.

Of the more than 200 potatoes, it took Dong Changhe and Xue'er about an hour to dig them all out.

Dong Changhe didn't give up on the small balls on the potato vines, and when he asked Xue'er to throw away the vines, he also picked them all by the way, and none of them could be wasted.

Although Xue'er knew that if these commonly known as sao eggs (scientific name artichoke bells) were cultivated, the survival rate was very low, but she couldn't say it, so she could only let Dong Changhe find out by himself.

In her previous life, when she was a child, she watched her grandmother grow potatoes, and she was also curious at the time, why did she plant edible potatoes as seeds? After learning about agriculture, she realized that the original eggs were used to experiment and breed new varieties.

Dong Changhe began to carry the potatoes back, and Xue'er was left to pick those sassy eggs.

Xue'er estimated that the more than 200 potatoes were about 1,500 catties.

Three to four hundred pounds of potato seeds can be planted the size of one acre of land. Except for those that are small, and not very suitable for planting, these potatoes can be planted on at least about three acres of land.

The yield of one acre of land should be no problem in this era of two thousand catties, and the yield of crops in this era is generally not high.

By this time, people had learned to fertilize the land, using farmhouse fertilizer. If you plant potatoes and fertilize them, then it is not a problem to reach 3,000 catties per mu.

The yield of sweet potatoes is about the same as that of potatoes, and the sweet potatoes she planted are estimated to be able to harvest about 2,000 catties.

Next year, we will plant three or five acres of sweet potatoes, and it will not be a problem to pass on these two crops to the world. Xue'er happily thought: her initial hard work was not in vain.

Hurrying slowly, Dong Changhe spent a whole morning, and finally carried these potatoes home with Xue'er.

He didn't dare to let the potatoes come to light now, so he had to choose the ones that were intact and put them in the cellar.

The Dong family has a total of three cellars, and there is a small cellar under both kitchens. The underground cellar on the west side of the yard was larger, and Cher also went down to fetch things.

She estimated that this large cellar was about fifty square meters high, about two meters high, and it should be able to hold a hundred cubic meters.

Now the cellar is full of cans and wine, and now these potato seeds have been added.

When the potatoes are ripe, there should be no problem with them.

In this place of Changhai County, ordinary people will not build cellars.

In winter, Dong Changhe often uses special methods to store some grapes and sand fruits, as well as cabbage and radish, so he will build such a large cellar in his house.

Ordinary people store radishes and cabbage in winter, using ordinary methods. It is to dig a deep pit in their own vegetable field, then put the cabbage and radish upside down, and finally put straw and soil on it.

When eating, you can take it at any time, and the food will not rot and keep it fresh.

Dong Changhe only went to Shuijiazhuang in the afternoon to take a leave and came back, because the matter of potatoes could not be known to others, and the Yun family was pregnant again, so he couldn't help too much.

He had to do it himself, so he took a day off.

Fortunately, he is the chief steward, and there are several capable cadres under him, and there are also days off from work, so he will not delay too many things.

Dong Changhe's family of three worked hard for a day, and finally got these potatoes done, and those who kept the seeds and those who kept them for experiments were all injured.

There are also some small ones, Dong Changhe endured the pain and left them for his family to eat.

In fact, Cher estimates that it is now possible to plant another season of potatoes, because its ripening period is about 100 days.

Changhai County is close to the sea, and due to the influence of the marine climate, the winter is not very cold. Every year, the first snow falls in the tenth month of winter.

It's July, so it's too late to plant a season of potatoes.

How do you tell Dong Changhe about this? Xue'er thought about it, and when the family sat down at the stone table again after the evening meal on this day, Xue'er pretended to be inadvertently and said, "Dad, Xue'er suddenly remembered something today. ”

Dong Changhe thinks Xue'er is cute no matter how he looks at her now, and he suddenly feels that Xue'er is his lucky star, so he asked very kindly, "What do you remember?" ”

Xue'er pretended to be distressed and said: "I led the sheep to graze in the spring, and I am somewhat familiar with two places, and one place is also overgrown with vines I don't know.

There is also a place where potatoes are found.

The vine sheep in the first place liked to eat it, but I thought it was possible that the vine was some kind of medicinal herb, and I was worried that the sheep would die if I ate it, so I didn't go there again.

At that time, the potatoes had just grown leaves, but the sheep themselves refused to eat them.

Cher didn't care at the time. Later, I went there by accident, and I saw purple and white potato flowers.

The flowers were beautiful, but they smelled great, so I didn't pick them to play. ”