Chapter 134: Melon Shelf
The watermelons planted this year are more than 200 catties at most, and if they are in the barren soil, even if they are given more spiritual springs, it should be difficult to grow so big.
Build a shelf for watermelons, suitable for areas with a lot of rain. Also, building shelves to grow watermelons is only suitable for small watermelons. It's better to let a big watermelon lie in the ground.
Yemo grows early-maturing melons, which should be available before May. During this time, there was a drought and little rain in the local area, so in fact, it was okay not to build a shelf.
The main purpose of building a shelf is to facilitate management and to make the watermelon more beautiful.
Watermelon shelves can choose triangle type, herringbone rack, fence rack.
Ye Mo chose a fence frame, which was more convenient.
Before building a fence frame, Ye Mo had to raise soil first......
Drive the excavator over, row 2 pits horizontally, and the row spacing is 2 meters. Vertical row, 8 meters apart......
The depth of the pit is 30 cm, pour half a bag of organic fertilizer into it.
The second uncle and second aunt have nothing to do now, and their fruit trees have already been trimmed, so they came over to help Ye Mo get fertilizer.
In just two days, Ye Mo dug a pit in his early 1,000s, and then gave the excavator to his father, and he drove back to the village to continue to help his second uncle dig a fertilization pit.
There are a lot of bamboos sent by my uncle.
In the future, the yield of watermelons that will be watered in Lingquan will definitely be very high.
The shelves must be stronger. Using a self-locking plastic cable tie, three bamboos are bundled into one.
Ye Mo used the 'Luoyang shovel' to dig a deep hole in the ground, and then inserted the bundled bamboo into it...... About 1 meter from the ground, fix a vertical row of bundled bamboo, 1.4 meters high and then a row, and then 1.8 meters high......
With the height of the three rows, these trunks are used to build melon vines and fix melons and fruits.
All use plastic strapping, which is convenient and can also save a lot of time.
As for the horizontal row, that is, in the middle of the two rows of watermelons......
Watermelons are planted in the spacious aisles of the durian orchard. The width of the aisle is 10 meters......
The shelves are 2 times 4 meters. But the distance between the watermelon plants is 2 meters by 8 meters. The rack between the two rows of watermelons needs to be fixed with bamboo, otherwise if the wind blows, the single row of watermelon shelves will be easily blown down.
Ye Mo is setting up a shelf here alone, and he is accompanied by a dog, which is quite boring, and the progress of his work is also very slow.
Just as he was thinking about calling Chen Chen and asking him what he was doing, Chen Chen's car drove by.
When he arrived at Ye Mo's side, Chen Chen parked the car on the side of the road, and Tang Sui jumped down from the passenger seat: "What are you doing, I won't answer your phone." ”
"The phone was put outside on the side of the road, it vibrated and I didn't hear it." Ye Mo put down the work he was doing, walked over, and handed them cigarettes: "Why did you come here." ”
"I heard that the second uncle said that you are building a shelf here alone, what are you going to do?" Tang Sui took Ye Mo's cigarette and looked at the shelves that Ye Mo had made.
The shelves are beautifully made, neat and tidy, and they are three bamboo poles tied together, which looks particularly sturdy. Tang Sui shook a little, not very much.
"Grow watermelons?" Chen Chen asked, "Or melon?" ”
"Watermelons, melons, cantaloupe, plant some one by one. Are you done with your work? Ye Mo asked.
"Two days off." Tang Sui said: "I just finished pruning the branches of Chen Chen's orchard, which made me tired. ”
"Rest, why don't you go fishing? You came here to work for me. Ye Mo said with a smile.
"Our Air Force has done it many times." Chen Chen said: "If you don't go fishing, it's just the two of us, it's boring." ”
"Where's your dad?"
"I'm all tired, so I can rest at home when I have time."
Tang Sui looked at the shelf made by Ye Mo and said, "What are you doing planting watermelons and building a shelf?" ”
"That's it, early watermelon...... It's the dry season, so there's no need to build a shelf. Chen Chen also said.
"The purpose of building a shelf is to make high-quality melons." Ye Mo lit a cigarette and sat down: "Anyway, there is nothing to do, let's take a look at the shelf, if you can cultivate a high-quality small watermelon, you can also make a fortune." ”
I wanted to be more relaxed in post-management, and after various considerations, I decided to build a shelf.
It takes a lot of effort to build this shelf. And Ye Mo is not as diligent as he seems. If he could cut corners and save effort, Ye Mo wouldn't bother to do it.
The main reason for building a shelf is to facilitate management. At the same time, Ye Mo will use spiritual springs in different regions to see the impact of different spiritual springs on the growth of watermelons.
In addition to building shelves, Ye Mo also grows watermelons on flat ground. Don't look at the two big carts of bamboo, there are not many of them when they are really used.
"It seems that you are ready to do a big job next year, how many acres of watermelons will you plant?" Tang Sui also lit a cigarette and asked.
"See how many shelves you can build." Ye Mo said: "Plant as many melons as you build shelves." "It depends on how much money you have.
Ye Mo gives more organic fertilizer.
According to his fertilizer application, if he planted 10,000 plants, he would need 200 tons of organic fertilizer. Organic fertilizer, 150,000 yuan.
40 catties of organic fertilizer were given around 1 seedling, and this amount of fertilizer was very large. Of course, you don't actually need that much fertilizer, because you can't build that kind of rack.
For watermelons grown on flat land, organic fertilizer is less.
As for the shelves, it's not just one season.
When the watermelons are ripe this season, dig another pit 4.5 meters away from the original pit and continue to grow watermelons and reticulated melons. The extra fertilizer given now is used as soil nourishment.
The shelf built by Ye Mo is very strong, and it is not that after being used in the first year, it cannot be used in the second year. In the coming year, you can continue to grow melons on the shelf...... Applying more fertilizer is considered to conserve the soil.
It is important to know that watermelon is a fruit that can absorb soil fertility in particular.
The exact amount of planting depends on how much crayfish can be sold this month.
After pulling a root, Ye Mo stood up: "Help me build a shelf, and invite you to eat crayfish at night." ”
"I don't eat your crayfish that feed you." Tang Sui also stood up.
Ye Mo glanced at him with disdain: "Slut, it's hypocrisy." ”
What's wrong with feeding? Which of the pork you usually eat is not fed by feed......
"Brother I don't eat crayfish, I'll eat it." Chen Chen smiled and said, "I'm not as particular as him." ”
"The shrimp seedlings you put in August are ready to eat now?" Tang Sui asked.
"In a few days, the crayfish in my pond will be sold." Ye Mo rolled his eyes.
"It's only been two months."
"It's been more than two months."
"The egg-hugging crayfish you stocked in August...... September, October, November...... It's been more than two months. "Tang Sui just made a mistake, and thought that Ye Mo's shrimp seedlings were only more than a month.
Since September, I first helped Ye Mo plant durian, and then after a few days of rest, I started picking fruits and was busy with various things in the orchard. It's a bit of a year-old feeling......
Crayfish hatch at the end of August and early September.
When he first started putting shrimp seedlings, Ye Mo was thinking about selling lobsters in April and May next year.
It's the crayfish that suddenly found the reservoir, which seems to grow very fast. Then start calculating the crayfish's weight gain......
The average weight of crayfish in the reservoir is close to 6 yuan. The male lobster is large and has more than 7 yuan. Female lobsters are small......
There are only 30 feeding points in the reservoir, and the crayfish around the feeding points are large and small in other places. The size difference is noticeable.
After a while, the big lobsters are picked out and sold. The small lobsters continue to be raised, waiting to breed next year.