Chapter 18

Today's wheat bran steamed buns are different from usual, she watched her mother-in-law take the flour out of the cupboard, and add a lot of flour to it when she mixed the noodles.

Afternoon.

As usual, the whole family went out to plant the corn in the field.

When she arrived in the field, Su Wan found that the way of planting corn here was different from the modern time she had lived before, there were no seedlings here, and seeds were sown directly.

But if the corn seedlings are not raised, the seedlings that grow are weak, not to mention, the growth will be relatively slow, and the corn stalks are very brittle, and they are easy to break when the wind blows.

When the corn stalk is broken, the corn cob is planted in the ground, and then it is drenched by the rain, and when the corn is ripe, it has already sprouted or moldy, and can only be used to feed livestock!

Su Wan thought about it and inquired with Chen: "Mother, does the corn that we sow and grow directly like this grow well?"

Chen sighed and said: "If it doesn't grow well, you can only plant it like this, the crops of our ancestors have been planted like this for generations, is there any other way not to do it?"

Su Wan said in a casual tone: "Mother, the corn planted by my mother's house is to raise seedlings first and then transplant, and the corn planted is good, the pole is thick, the cob is also big, not very sick, and it is not much lodging when the wind blows." ”

Su Wan still can't figure out which direction the mother's house of this body is, and she doesn't know how to grow corn over there, because in the memory of the original owner, although her mother's house is surrounded by walls, she has no memory of doing farm work.

Now if she wants to persuade Chen to plant more scientifically, she can only make it up.

Anyway, according to memory, she came from her mother's house to the Gu family for several days in an ox cart, and the two families were far apart, and the Gu family must not know how her mother's side planted corn.

After hearing this, Chen was a little moved, and asked Su Wandao: "Wanya, according to what you said, the corn that was raised first and then transplanted is really that good?"

"Well, really!" Su Wan nodded and said, "When there was no drought, our family planted corn like that every year. ”

Chen is a person with strong action, so he immediately went to discuss with Gu Dayong.

After a while, the two had already discussed and gathered a large family of people working in the fields.

Chen looked at Su Wan and said, "Come, Wanya, you tell us how to plant seedlings and then transplant them on your mother's side, and the remaining half of our family's corn field is also planted." ”

Su Wan told everyone carefully, and made a demonstration with her own hands, first mixed the mud with water, mixed the mud to get wet, and then kneaded the mud rice balls of the appropriate size, and then poked a hole with her thumb on the rice balls, and only two seeds were put in the hole.

Then make a flat piece of land, put the seeds in a neat row of mud dumplings in the ground, and cover it with a thin layer of crushed soil.

Finally, sew a shed with old clothes and cover it with insulation.

After Su Wan demonstrated while talking, the Gu family had no opinion because they heard that this would greatly increase production, and even Wan's did not complain.

Only Gu Xiaoyu thought about it, then pulled the sleeve of Lasu Wan's coat and asked in a low voice: "Fourth aunt, you only put two seeds in each mud rice ball, what if these two seeds don't germinate?"

This reminded Su Wan that the seeds of ancient times were kept by the farmers.

Due to genetic variation, the seedlings grown by self-retained seeds are unevenly strong and uneven in height, not to mention disease resistance, and the germination rate is not guaranteed.

There are modern seeds with a high germination rate in her space, but how to take them out reasonably is a big problem.