Chapter 16 Planting Sweet Potatoes
"What kind of grass is this?" Pei Pei said curiously, picking up a seedling.
"This is not a grass ......," Gan Guyu introduced, "This is a sweet potato seedling, and my brother is ready to plant sweet potatoes in this field." ”
"Sweet potato?" Pei Pei and Linlin's faces were full of doubts, and they said in unison, "What's that?"
"Sweet potatoes are ...... I can't explain it for a while, but it's a very productive grain anyway. "If you grow wheat in this field, you can still harvest a dozen or so bags, but like sweet potatoes, it is very difficult to harvest seventy or eighty bags." ”
"Wait a minute!" Pei Pei thought of the key point, "If what you said is true, wouldn't it be possible to reduce the famine if everyone switched to this and didn't grow wheat?"
Gangu Yu said with a smile: "If you don't plant wheat and change to sweet potatoes, it's certain that you will alleviate the famine, but it's also certain that you will eat sweet potatoes until you vomit." ”
Unexpectedly, Pei Pei immediately replied: "Now we have eaten the bread and vomited......"
Linlin on the side had been thinking about the yield of sweet potatoes, and finally said cautiously: "Then let's plant this sweet potato now, shall we?"
Pei Pei couldn't wait to nod his head. Gangu Yu, who had exhausted his mana, saw that the two daughters were so enthusiastic about production, so he simply sat on the edge of the field as a conductor and pointed out the key points of sweet potato sowing for them.
There are many other names for sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes and red potatoes are also very common, the biggest feature is that the yield is very high, and the yield per mu of 5,000 catties is very common. In the past, Ganguyu had even heard of sweet potatoes with a yield of 10,000 catties per mu, but the taste of that sweet potato should be worse, and it was mainly used in industry.
Sweet potatoes are drought tolerant and waterlogging, and are best grown in sandy loam soil with good drainage. Ganguyu made a plan to grow sweet potatoes when cultivating the soil, so the soil texture is also tailored for sweet potatoes. At this time, he was like a black-hearted supervisor, commanding the two girls to ridge and plant, while Pei Pei and Linlin were dedicated to farming, for fear that something would go wrong when planting sweet potatoes for the first time, and they didn't look at Gangu Yu's face at all.
Because Ganguyu wanted to harvest some small potatoes to eat, he deliberately planted them a little denser in order to reduce the rate of large potatoes, but soon the sweet potatoes in a field were planted. The water demand of sweet potatoes is not high, Peipei completed the irrigation without much consumption, and she and Linlin, who have been working in the field for a long time, do not feel too tired, which makes Gangu Yu admire it very much.
But here's the problem. The growth of all things in Gangu Yu and Linlin is still in a state of skill cooling, and the second daughter wants to see the high yield of sweet potatoes as soon as possible, so they have to go back to the natural forest and find their good sisters to help.
Nowadays, the two most mentioned names in the natural forest are Gangu Yu and Peipei. Hearing that Ganguyu was planting new things, a large group of beautiful women in straw skirts joined in the excitement and followed, but Ganguyu's sweet potato field soon surrounded a circle of people.
Linlin on the side pulled one of her good sisters over: "Xiao Guyu, introduce you to my good sister Xiao An." Later, she will be the one to exert the growth of all things. ”
"Hello, I'm tired. Gangu Yu thanked.
Xiao An chuckled and said, "It's just a gesture." My own wheat field won't need anything to grow in a short time, so it's great to be able to help others. ”
Gangu Yu nodded. He had long known that the fertility of the land was limited and that it could not be used uncontrollably to ripen the grain. Many nature mages, if they stay in the natural forest all the time, probably won't need everything to grow a few times a year, which is very disappointing for this magic with a super long cooldown time.
Therefore, the mages of the natural forest often go to the mainland and use the growth of all things to help the people in the perennial famine area grow food, which is one of the important reasons why the mage is revered.
Some people on the edge of the field have already begun to urge, and everyone is very curious about what the sweet potatoes planted by Ganguyu are. Therefore, Xiao An no longer procrastinated, and chanted the lengthy mantra of the growth of all things in the face of the sweet potato field of Gangu Yu.
After possessing the full set of magic of the natural system, he can be regarded as having a simple understanding of the magic on the continent. Magic, like magicians, is divided into ten levels, and magicians who reach a certain level can cast magic up to that level. However, the effects that can be achieved by a magician of the same strength when he casts the same magic can be very different.
The effect of a magic will be limited to a threshold, but the actual effect is also affected by factors such as the magician's own strength, the strength of the perception of the magic element, the proficiency of the magic, and even the current mental state of the magician.
For example, the growth of all things, this magic itself only limits the maximum time for each spell to spawn plants, a first-order natural mage can shorten the growth cycle of plants by up to two years, and a tenth-order natural mage can save thousands of years at a time.
But the specific effect of the growth of all things depends on the degree of control over the magic. Generally speaking, the larger the area of farmland that is spawned, the more plants are affected, and the longer the effect lasts, the more difficult it is to control the magic and the more mana is consumed.
When a nature mage performs the growth of all things, the first thing he pursues is actually the precision of magic control. There are inevitably many weeds and grass species in the farmland, and the survival ability is much stronger than that of wheat, and when the natural mage exerts the growth of all things, he must not even give birth to these weeds at the same time, and the waste of mana is a small matter, and the waste of fertility in the field affects the yield of food. Therefore, precise control of the object of magic is an important prerequisite for the growth of all things.
This also explains why the fields in the Natural Forest are all hundreds of square meters, as this happens to be the largest area that the poorest first-order natural mages can precisely control. Gangu Yu measured it and found that it was about 111 square meters, that is, one-sixth of an acre.
However, Gangu Yu knows that he doesn't have to worry about the control accuracy of the growth of all things, because he is instantaneous in the growth of all things, and which crops to grow and which weeds to ignore are just a matter of thought, which is very convenient. That's the power of instantaneous magic, and that's why the women were surprised in the first place.
As Xiao An's spell fell, the sweet potatoes in the field soon began to sprout, and then the vines began to spread gradually. Looking at the fast-growing sweet potato vines, Gangu Yu couldn't help but sigh at the magic of magic.
Crops like this, which take advantage of the growth of all things, can grow very well regardless of the temperature and humidity, the difference between day and night, etc., which is simply domineering. And Gangu Yu also knows that if he grows instantaneously, and at the same time can control these conditions, the growth of crops will definitely be more gratifying.
He looked at himself proudly, and when he noticed the sweet potatoes in the field again after a while, his face suddenly changed.