After Ah Di finished observing, he summarized his harvest at the end of the day, and after the Gao family came back from work, he continued to ask, "Uncle Gao, how many months did you start planting the wheat?" ”

The person who was called Uncle Gao, dressed in cloth, had a sense of exhaustion carried by perennial labor, but he was not in good spirits, I saw him recall, "It was around April or May." ”

It was the first time for Uncle Gao to be so respected by a reader, and it was really a new experience.

Uncle Gao couldn't stop talking, "This wheat is easy to survive when the weather is slowly warm, in fact, it can be planted in March, but we have to plant rice, and this time will be delayed." Besides, if the wheat is planted a month or two later, it can survive. ”

When Brother Gao heard Uncle Gao talk about rice, he remembered that he saw the green seedlings in the field and asked, "Uncle Gao, you are planting two crops of rice, right?" ”

Uncle Gao nodded, "We grow early rice and late rice here." Early rice is planted in March, and late rice is planted in June. ”

Ah Di suddenly thought and asked excitedly, "Then can this wheat also be planted in two crops?" ”

Uncle Gao thought for a moment and said, "We really haven't thought about this problem. ”

In addition to rice, they never thought that other crops could be planted in two crops.

But after a while, Uncle Gao shook his head and sighed, "Even if we can plant it in two crops, we can't plant it."

Ah Di asked suspiciously, "Why is that?"

Uncle Gao stomped on the ground with his foot, "It's not enough fat!"

"Fertilizer and manure are given to rice, silkworms are rotted and topdressed, and where is there excess fertilizer for wheat."

Brother nodded and wrote to remember.

Immediately, Ah Di asked Fu Yuanzhi, "Brother Fu, I remember that in "The Book of Songs: Song of Zhou", there is 'Tu Zhi

This verse illustrates that weeds can be fertilized when they decay.

Fu Yuanzhi nodded, "Yes, Uncle Gao, you can pile up the weeds and take advantage of the current heat and rain to rot them, so that you can get more fertilizer." ”

Uncle Gao shook his head and said, "We also used this method, but its fertility is still not enough." ”

In fact, it's not that it's not enough, it's just that everyone knows this method, where can there be so much grass to manure so many people.

It was spring, and I wanted to pluck all the leaves on the mountain.

We have a lot of paddy fields and hemp fields, and the demand is large, so we can't set aside excess fertilizer for other crops.

Brother was distracted and muttered, "How can we solve the problem of insufficient fertilizer?"

Da Banyan Village only grows one season of rice, and the fertilizer can barely be enough, but Changliu Village is different.

Fu Yuanzhi looked at Ah Di in a trance, and didn't interrupt him, but just took over the topic and continued to ask Fanmai's question, "Is Fanmai only cultivated in Changliu Village?" Uncle Gao. ”

Uncle Gao shook his head, "What I know is that several nearby villages have cultivation, and everyone has some intricate kinship. ”

Fu Yuanzhi thought that he probably relied on the news obtained by marrying a girl.

Fu Yuanzhi asked again, "How long have you been planting this wheat?" ”

Uncle Gao thought for a while and shook his head, "I've had it since I was born, so why would I want to ask how long this thing is." It has been passed down like this for a long time, and as long as it is dried, you can get several seedlings by taking the amount of one wheat. ”

Uncle Gao couldn't stop planting carama as soon as he talked about it, "When it rains, the ground is wet, so I dig a pond and throw three or four grains into it, and then two or three seedlings will grow. Most of the people in our village can have their current life because of it. ”

"But it shouldn't rain too much, I remember one year it rained a lot, and then they got sick, but it was still better than rice."

"In my experience, if there is a lot of rain, the sun will not come out, and if the rainwater is not dried in time, it will make it sick, and the harvest of the wheat will not be very good, it will be sparse and sparse, and there will be a lot of weeds."

"It's not good if it's too dry, it's like rice, it affects its yield and quality."

"As long as the wind and rain are good that year, the rain is not particularly much, and it is not particularly dry, the wheat will grow very well."

Fu Yuanzhi continued to ask the doubts in his heart, "Just now you said that the seeds of the wheat, how did you select and keep them for the second year?" ”

Uncle Gao looked very simple and said, "Just like rice, just dry them and plant them next year." ”

"On a rainy day, the humidity is heavy?" Fu Yuanzhi asked.

Uncle Gao said, "Roast the fire, put it near the fire we burn, or hang it on the wall of the kitchen, so that it will not get wet and damp in the place where the fire is often burned." ”

Fu Yuanzhi wrote it down.

In fact, crops all have similarities.

Wheat and rice are planted before and after planting.

Uncle Gao thought of it a little more, and added, "The seedlings of the wheat seedlings should also be checked, supplemented, interspersed, and fixed." ”

"For example, if we throw three or four of them, some of the good ones will all grow, and some of the bad ones will only grow one or two plants, but it will not work if they grow too much, so they will compete with each other for water and fertilizer and glory, and in the end a few plants will not grow the wheat well, so we must have to give up and give it, and leave the one with the best growth."

"We also have a mantra, between dense and thin, small and large, and sick and strong."

At this time, Ah Di, who had already returned to his senses, immediately wrote down the mantra, he looked at the wheat and asked, "Can freshly picked down wheat like this be dried directly to make seeds?" ”

Uncle Gao hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head, "That's definitely not going to work!" We always leave them in the ground, wait for their yellow shells to be broken, and then put them under the eaves to dry, and then keep them as seeds after a month or two. ”

Ah Di immediately wrote down this knowledge point.

If he wants to take some of them to make seeds, he will have to wait for them to dry naturally.

In fact, when asked about this, Brother and Fu Yuanzhi also have a certain understanding of Fanmai.

It's just that there are many places that still need to be sorted out again, and the things that are not understood are summarized again.

For example, what level of rainfall is suitable for its growth?

For example, what kind of temperature is suitable for his jointing, flowering, and grouting.

And the difference between soil, fertility, and light, and what will they look like because of these factors?

If Ah Di wants to promote this fanmai, then he must understand all these clearly.

The fact that people in Changliu Village and several nearby villages are planting this wheat provides him with a basis for understanding the practice.

So when Ah Di said that he wanted to stay here and wait until next year to plant wheat, Song Huan and Fu Yuanzhi were not surprised.

And now he can negotiate with Li Zheng to lend a small piece of land to try to plant the second season of wheat to see if it can survive.

If they can survive, then the villagers in Changliu Village can grow two crops of carousel, and they don't have to worry about eating.

And because there is no shortage of catama here, we can also start from the perspective of the wheat itself to see if we can develop other recipes that are unique to the catawheat on the basis of cooking and grinding it into flour to make paste and cake.

I want to buy a book, but it's gone, it's out of print, and it's out of print

(End of chapter)