Shaofu.

Now that Li Ming is serving as the supervisor of the Shaofu, the Shaofu is undoubtedly busier.

At this time, the young master not only had the same things as before, but also had many more things.

For example, we raise chickens, ducks, earthworms, purify refined salt, refine snow sugar, and also purchase cogongrass.

Although as time goes by, the speed of Imperata begins to decrease, but this is still a tedious task.

But Li Ming doesn't care about these at all.

He just needs to explain it. If it doesn't work, it's their business.

Just like this moment.

Li Ming rushed to the young master's office in a hurry, and soon called the young master's supervisor over again.

This time I asked several farmers.

After the Shaofu Superintendent agreed, he quickly brought in manpower.

There are three people in total.

They are all veteran farmers with extremely rich farming experience.

"Look, are there sprouts on this potato? If the whole potato seeds are planted, there will be many seedlings in one planting pit. Not to mention wasting the seeds, the seedlings will be too dense and affect the yield of potatoes. Therefore, potato seeds

It is recommended to cut them into pieces."

"When cutting the seed cubes, try to leave the bud eyes on the top. Just leave one or two bud eyes on each seed cube. As for the potatoes at the end, you can use them or not."

"After the potatoes are cut into pieces, they will be cut into pieces. Therefore, we need to sprinkle plant ash on the cut areas of the potatoes!"

After speaking, Li Ming immediately took out a knife and slowly cut open a potato under the blank gazes of several farmers.

There were about two fists each, and he carefully cut them into four or five shapes.

"Well, Your Highness, won't the seeds go bad?"

Seeing Li Ming's movements, a farmer couldn't help but speak.

In their knowledge, the seeds have not yet been separated.

As he spoke, several other people also looked a little strange.

And faced with the weirdness and curiosity of several people.

Li Ming pondered for a moment, then opened his mouth to explain.

"No, these are seeds from a distant continent. They have special characteristics. The specialness lies in the location of each seed's bud eye."

"Just do it my way."

The words were simple and did not go into detail. I couldn’t ask him to elaborate and he didn’t understand.

"No!"

Although a few people were still full of curiosity, they still followed their words.

And among the actions of several people.

Li Ming greeted the other person and started working in the greenhouse.

Now it happens that some vegetables have begun to mature and are ready for picking.

There is no doubt that a new greenhouse will be available.

Naturally, this greenhouse is where Li Ming plans to grow potatoes.

Compared with ordinary vegetable cultivation, potato cultivation requires more trouble.

The growth of potatoes has very high requirements on soil. It needs soft and breathable soil. Therefore, when plowing the land, it needs to be plowed a little deeper. In the previous life, it was about 40 centimeters. According to the fertility of the soil, an appropriate amount of farmyard manure was applied.

Then stir evenly and then make ridges to increase the soil thickness of the planting layer.

Plowing the land is undoubtedly very cumbersome in this era.

This is especially true when the depth is relatively deep.

But fortunately, these are all old farmers.

And this is still Shaofu.

For other people in the Tang Dynasty, farm tools were still extremely lacking, but there was certainly no shortage for the Shaofu.

The plowing was completed quickly.

Ordinary potato seed blocks, generally about 350 kilograms, can be planted in one acre (667 square meters), so ten kilograms of potato seed blocks can be sown in an area of ​​about 20 to 25 square meters.

What Li Ming got when he signed in was a special kind of potato.

Its planting area is wider, reaching about forty square meters.

Naturally, such a small range does not require much time.

And after plowing the ground.

Just apply an appropriate amount of farmyard manure.

The feces used for cultivating earthworms is already available and decomposed, so it can be used.

The land issue will soon be completed.

Next, you just need to wait for the potatoes to sprout before planting them.

And it doesn’t take long to wait.

Place it in a greenhouse.

With enough temperature and direct sunlight, the seedlings began to appear in less than fifteen days.

Look at the potato seedlings that are gradually exposed.

The farmers couldn't help but be surprised.

They didn't expect that potatoes would actually sprout after being cut.

Each one of them looked shocked and confused.

There was a new change in the eyes looking at Li Ming.

Li Ming didn't care about the changes in the eyes of these people.

After all, he has experienced this journey several times.

Compared with this, he is more concerned about the cultivation of potatoes, which is related to the entire Tang Dynasty.

If my father knew about it, I’m afraid he wouldn’t pay too much attention to it.

Although he has no intention of saying it now, it is inevitable that he will take it seriously.

On the sixteenth day, he began to direct people to plant potatoes.

Compared with other cultivation, potato cultivation can be said to be somewhat different.

Before planting potatoes, dig a number of planting pits at certain intervals in the plot. The pits are about 20 centimeters deep. Then sprinkle a small half pit of farmyard manure and plant ash into the pits, and then sprinkle in a thin layer of soil.

Cover the farmyard manure in the pit, then plant the potato pieces with the sprouts facing upward. Finally, cover with about 1.5 cm of soil, and then build up the soil after the potatoes have sprouted.

This is a very detailed step.

Throughout the whole process, Li Ming held a planting manual and taught the old farmers to plant.

It wasn't until it was completely planted that he breathed a sigh of relief.

After the potato chunks are planted, the seedlings will emerge in about 5 days. You don’t need to worry about it at this time, because the main source of nutrition for the potato seedlings at this time is the potato chunks.

You need to wait until the potato seedlings grow to a height of more than 15 cm and have many leaves. At this time, you need to start topdressing.

And if possible, it is best to fertilize mainly with nitrogen fertilizer. You can use fermented liquid fertilizer, chicken manure or potassium sulfate fertilizer.

Compared with previous lives, it is naturally impossible to buy ready-made products in this era.

Then you can only do it yourself.

Fortunately, the method of making nitrogen fertilizer is not too complicated, and the relevant production methods are available in the sign-in.

You can crush one or more types of soybeans, peanuts, and melon seeds, fry them, add water to seal them, and they will rot and ferment into organic nitrogen fertilizer in about half a month.

Although peanuts and melon seeds do not exist in the Tang Dynasty today, soybeans do exist.

And the quantity is not low.

Generally, farmers will plant some soybeans in their spare time when planting wheat and corn. These soybeans are usually used to satisfy hunger during times of famine.

Naturally, the Shaofu also has many.

Li Ming directly asked someone to prepare some.
Chapter completed!