"Divided into two teams, the one in front of the skewers withdrew from the shed, one side withdrew, and the people in the back took a sickle to cut the ginseng leaves, and then began to start the ginseng."

Xu Shixiang is the captain of the sideline business, and of course he is the leader of the staff, and when he arrives at the head of the ginseng pool, he arranges how to do today's work.

Chi Chuan'er, which is also a special term for ginseng, is a large earthen ridge five or six feet wide.

Due to the shape of the mountain and the topography, as well as the direction of the pond strings, the length of the pond strings varies. More than forty or fifty zhang, less twenty or thirty zhang.

The ridge surface of the soil ridge is called the pond surface, and the ditch between the two soil ridges is called the horse road.

The surface of the pool should be more than a foot above the horse road to facilitate drainage.

Ginseng likes light and is afraid of light, likes water and is afraid of water, so each ridge must be covered with ginseng shed.

Blocking most of the sunlight and rain can ensure that the ginseng grows and does not rot.

At present, the ginseng sheds are all single-sided slopes, the length is slightly wider than the surface of the pool, and the rainwater flows down the ginseng shed into the horse road.

Later, when the special plastic film for ginseng comes out, the ginseng shed will evolve into an arch, flowing water on both sides, which is more convenient.

To start ginseng, first of all, remove the ginseng shed, which is nailed up with wooden boards, and the wooden boards can be reused, and naturally cannot be damaged at will.

In the past, if someone's family was poor and there was no longevity after death, a coffin would be nailed with a mallet.

This mallet board is the wooden board covered with ginseng.

The big guys came with tools, so a few people came forward with hammers, pliers, and other tools.

Remove the grass or linoleum from the top, then lift the planks and stack them on the side.

At the back, someone held a sickle and cut off the ginseng stalks about ten centimeters above the ground, and put them together from head to tail.

After cutting the ginseng leaves, the sickle is replaced with three teeth, and according to the remaining stalk marks, the soil is plowed.

When planting ginseng, it is planted in trenches according to a certain row spacing, so as long as the ginseng is planted at a distance of three teeth from each row, the ginseng in the ground will not be damaged.

The three teeth, unlike the rake, have only three finger-thick teeth, the teeth are about eight inches long, each tooth is two or three inches apart, and the lower end is pointed.

The three teeth were dug into the ground, and then lifted up, and even the ginseng and soil were ploughed up.

Then with a gentle kick of the foot, most of the dirt is shaken off, and then taken back and placed behind you.

Follow the ginseng picker to pick up the ginseng in the soil, shake off the remaining soil, and put it into a sack.

It's easy to say, but it's actually quite tiring.

The three teeth are not light, and the shoulders are sore and painful.

And the person who holds the three teeth must be precise every time, and he can't scratch the ginseng in the soil, so he must be concentrated, and he will be very tired after a long time.

As for the ginseng pick-up later, it is not easy, you have to kneel in the ground and sort out the ginseng from the soil little by little.

One planed and one picked up, and the two of them made up a shelf.

Ginseng is a delicate job, not too hairy, so it doesn't dry quickly.

A pair of shelves is at most more than a dozen zhang a day, and it is easy to cut the ginseng if it is fast, or the ginseng is buried in the soil.

Xu Shiyan has grown ginseng all his life and is very familiar with this.

The three teeth are in his hands, absolutely handy, and he can dig out two or three ginseng trees every time, and he will not hurt the ginseng at all.

The one who followed the ginseng was Zhao Jianjian, the second son of the Zhao family.

The two of them cooperated very well, and all the ginseng in the soil was dug out and picked up, and not a single ginseng whisker was dropped.

"Third brother, this mallet is very good this year, how big do you look? I looked at the one just now, and there were three or two. ”

Zhao Jianshe looked at the white raw and chubby ginseng in his hand and was very happy.

"Well, this year's production should be pretty good.

In fact, the mallet in our team is still poor, if you serve it well, it will be like playing with twenty-five or six pounds per zhang. ”

Xu Shiyan picked his three teeth, chatting with Zhao Jianshe while working.

"Huh? Twenty-five or six pounds? Can't you?

Last year, our team's ginseng yield was good, and in the end, it was only seventeen catties per zhang.

More than 20 pounds, so don't they all go up in two or three taels? ”

Zhao Jianshe was young, and he had never heard that a zhang of ginseng could grow more than 20 catties, so he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Xu Shiyan smiled, "Do you know that the mallet can actually be used for fat?"

In summer, soybean cake is used for fertilizer, and when planting mallets in autumn, it is used as base fertilizer, and the output of mallets can be increased a lot, and the goods are also weighed. Xu Shiyan remembered his experience in growing ginseng in his previous life.

"Use bottom fertilizer when planting mallets, don't use top dressing in the new planting year, and chase it again with soybean cake water in the summer of the frozen year.

In the third year, the output can be increased by at least six or seven catties. ”

Ginseng is planted in late autumn every year, and it is called new planting in the next year, frozen in the second year, and made in the third year.

Ginseng does not like ordinary manure, and if you apply fertilizer such as pig manure and chicken manure to the ginseng field, you will be burned to death.

The only fertilizers that can be applied to the ginseng field are bean cake and deer manure. Deer manure is hard to get in large quantities, and there may be a way to get bean cakes.

The soybean cake is crushed, water is added to ferment, whether it is fermented soybean cake flour or soybean cake water, which is used to fertilize ginseng, which can increase production and income.

Zhao Jianshe was stupid, he had never heard of ginseng being fertilized before, and it was planted in the ground and grown by itself.

"Third brother, is it really fake? If our team also gives the mallet top dressing, wouldn't the yield be higher? ”

"You think beautifully, right? Where are we going to get so many bean cakes? Xu Shiyan shook his head.

Nowadays, most people still can't eat enough, and the soybeans in the team don't know if they are enough to hand in the task, how can there be bean cakes to top dressing?

When Zhao Jianshe heard this, his face was full of frustration, "Then aren't you talking in vain?" ”

I thought there was a way to increase the output of the mallet, but it was all in vain for a long time.

"There is a way, the key is that your father doesn't know whether to listen or not." Xu Shiyan smiled and dug out a few ginseng trees and sent them back.

"Have you seen these ginseng sites from this year? Five hundred zhang, how can there be more than ten acres of land, right?

Next year, all soybeans will be planted in the spring, which does not belong to cultivated land and belongs to our village. Won't the bean cake be used for top dressing at that time? ”

As long as you are willing to use your brain to think, there will always be a way, it depends on whether Zhao Dahai dares or not.

Ginseng grows under harsh conditions, so it must be planted in old woodland, cut down trees, and turn over the soil. It can be said that the destruction of forests is great.

However, for the sake of economic development, ginseng has to be planted, so the current method of cutting down forests to plant ginseng and returning ginseng to forests is adopted.

The land where ginseng has been planted is short of soil, and in the second year after the ginseng is raised, saplings should be planted in the ground, and after many years, it will grow into a forest.

The newly planted saplings are very small, and in fact do not affect the growth of the dealer, and it is completely possible to make a fuss about it.

When Xu Shiyan was in his last life, he did this in many places.

After the ginseng is raised, the ginseng soil is contracted out and a crop of soybeans or potatoes is planted.

The soil that has been planted with ginseng has greatly reduced its fertility, and it is not possible to grow other crops, but it is particularly good to grow soybeans or potatoes.

Potatoes, in particular, grow much more than in the vegetable garden and have a particularly high yield.