Chapter 27: Strawberries
On Wednesday, Zhang's father and mother came as promised, bringing greenhouse materials and a technician bought from the agricultural science station. After Liu Xiaoyu's greeting, a group of four people went straight to the field.
Probably planned the length and width of the greenhouse, and did not rush to start, first made a detailed plan, Liu Xiaoyu did not understand this thing very well, and looked a little dizzy, anyway, the use of people is not suspicious, just do not use your mouth.
This time, the greenhouse first used a bamboo pole structure greenhouse: the cost of bamboo poles and film is about 2,500 yuan/mu, and the bamboo poles can be used for three years. Originally, you can also choose a reinforced structure greenhouse: the cost of steel bars and film is about 7,000 yuan/mu, and the steel bars can be used for 20 years. Although the latter is more cost-effective, Zhang's mother feels that it is better to do this for the first time, so she still chooses the former.
According to the technician's explanation, the greenhouse film can be used for three years, and generally the third year can be used as a double-layer greenhouse in the greenhouse, and the insulation effect is not good outside. Of course, the ridge film is once a year.
Even the whole strip was built a shed, and I was busy for three days, from Wednesday to Friday, but fortunately, the weather in these days was very face-saving, and it was all sunny and good weather, so everything went smoothly.
Looking at the semi-circular strawberry greenhouse in front of him, Liu Xiaoyu's heart was full of joy, and this first step was finally taken out.
Sending off the technician of the agricultural science station, Liu Xiaoyu and his party went into the shed again and carefully trimmed the ridge inside. There are 4 stems (mausoleums) in the greenhouse, and the middle two stems (mausoleums) can put 4 rows of seedlings, that is, one stem (mausoleum) two rows of seedlings, and the next two stems (mausoleums) can each put a row of seedlings.
On Friday, Mr. Liu sent over 7,000 strawberry seedlings, which he said were all red-cheeked varieties with high yields, better taste and longer shelf life. It is a variety introduced from rìben, and the market price is high and the response is good.
Several people were busy for a while, and finally planted all the strawberry seedlings they bought before the end of the week and cultivated them according to the strawberry planting points.
In order to catch up with the last batch of strawberries on the market, Liu Xiaoyu had to contact the mastermind and ask if there was a way to make the strawberries in the greenhouse grow faster and better.
The main brain provides two methods, one is to send all the strawberry seedlings into the space, and use the energy of the space to make them naturally optimized. However, because Liu Xiaoyu is not doing this alone, Liu Xiaoyu did not use this method out of risk considerations.
Another method provided by the main brain is that under the action of space energy, the water of the big pond in the space can already have a certain effect on the plants, although it is not as effective as planting the plants directly in the space, but it can also play the role required by Liu Xiaoyu.
In fact, the soil in the space also has this effect, but because it is troublesome to use, and the space soil will gradually lose its utility over time after leaving the space.
Of course, it would be most convenient to let the brainmind directly use space energy to optimize the strawberry seedlings in the field, but considering that such a plant consumes too much energy, an optimized strawberry will definitely attract unnecessary attention, so Liu Xiaoyu directly gave up this idea.
So, every night, when Liu Xiaoyu sent Zhang's father and mother away, he carried a bucket and a scoop and carefully watered the strawberries in the greenhouse. After watering for several nights, the strawberry seedlings in the greenhouse grew gratifyingly as the master said.
Although the labor is a little tiring, Liu Xiaoyu's heart is joyful, every day he will take his digital camera in the field greenhouse to take that photo, and then at night when he has nothing to do with the computer to send it to the Internet.
His QQ space and West Temple section have unconsciously attracted a large number of netizens. Although some netizens are very strange that Liu Xiaoyu's strawberry seedlings are growing too fast, this does not attract people's excessive attention, there are so many agricultural technologies these days, who can say for sure that this is not a new planting technology?
With the completion of the strawberry greenhouse and the growth of strawberry seedlings, Liu Xiaoyu's once calm and clear mentality is gone. In fact, strawberry planting does not require too much manpower, but the first time he did this, Liu Xiaoyu was excited that if he didn't go to the shed to see it every day, he would definitely not sleep well that night.
In order to prevent unnecessary dangers, Liu Xiaoyu also made a dog house in the greenhouse, and Hanhan and Xiaohu took turns to go to the greenhouse every night to watch the night.
The strawberry growth is gratifying, and under the watering of the space water, the strawberry seedlings in the greenhouse actually began to enter the flowering period after just over a week.
Although the strawberry seedlings bought by Village Chief Liu this time were all finished seedlings, such a speed did surprise Zhang's father and mother and Village Chief Liu, who came to see it from time to time.
Of course, it is impossible to say that he is using space water, Liu Xiaoyu just took out the EM stock solution he bought back as a shield, and reluctantly fooled the past.
Seeing that his strawberries were getting closer and closer to maturity, Liu Xiaoyu turned his brain and began to think of a way out for the sales of strawberries.
Because Liujia Village is really far away from Fu's house, and he is the only one here who has a strawberry greenhouse, and there is only more than one acre of land, it seems that it will not work if Fu's family does the farmhouse to attract tourists to pick.
Liu Xiaoyu was a little clueless when he thought about it. Strawberries are not easy to store and transport, and if they are only given to the dealers who buy strawberries in the county, the price will definitely not go up at that time.
And if it's retail, I don't have a channel to sell it at present, so I can't sell these strawberries by myself basket by basket.
After looking for a day, Liu Xiaoyu had a good discussion with Zhang's father and Zhang's mother, and finally decided to try several methods, first batch some strawberries to the dealers to see the specific price at that time, and then find a way to get a batch of strawberries to sell on the way to Fu's house. As for the retail channels in Nanjing, Liu Xiaoyu needs to find a way.
While these methods are not very good, they are more or less a way out. After all, this is different from Liu Xiaoyu's previous sale of corn and peaches, this is a large batch of strawberries, if they are sold slowly in the space, it will not directly arouse people's suspicions.
In the evening, Liu Xiaoyu went on the Internet again, opened the section called Liucun Farmhouse that he had opened on the Xici Hutong website not long ago, and posted a post on it, explaining his current situation about strawberry sales and posting pictures for help. Then he also went to the food page of another well-known 8080 community in Nanjing, where he often stayed, and posted this post, accompanied by corresponding pictures.
Not to mention that the reaction to these two posts is relatively strong. Many netizens are very refreshing and directly asked how much is a catty, whether it will be delivered at that time, if the price is right and delivered, then order some, and some netizens said that they are not afraid of the distance and are afraid that things are not good, and even a few netizens who do fruit business directly sent a short message to contact Liu Xiaoyu to discuss the strawberry business.
Looking at the reactions of netizens, Liu Xiaoyu's somewhat unstable heart finally relaxed. Although I can't say for sure what the outcome will be, there is finally one more channel.
Everything depends on the end result of the strawberries in the field. Liu Xiaoyu's heart was a little nervous and looked forward to it.