What Su Yuanyuan means is that there will be a variety of sweet potatoes this year, which are relatively drought-resistant. Corn probably cannot produce food.
So the two of them thought about raising sweet potato seedlings outside.
A lot of tree branches were prepared, and there was thick plastic sheeting in Su Yuanyuan's space.
However, there is still a lack of straw curtains, and they still need to be covered at night to keep the heat in.
So the two of them went to cut grass in an undeveloped land, but the grass was too dry to make a curtain at all.
Su Yuanyuan didn't want Tan Shaoting to know that her space could be planted, so she went to such trouble.
In the end, I went to the field department and bought 20 yuan. These were purchased by the field department. There are also old people here. Some of them can't work anymore, so they can get money by weaving straw curtains.
After buying it back, the two drove the car to load the sand.
Su Yuanyuan had seen her grandma make a sweet potato kang. At that time, her grandma would always go to the market to sell sweet potato seedlings.
The two of them have set aside about three acres of land, and plan to prepare more sweet potato seedlings. If there is enough, they will plant twenty acres of corn, and the rest will be sweet potatoes. Even if it is a drought, there should be a harvest.
Zhao Yanli came over several times and helped with some work. Knowing that Su Yuanyuan wanted to plant sweet potatoes, the five brothers and sisters discussed planting sweet potatoes as well, so the sweet potatoes given by Su Yuanyuan could not be eaten. They were all kept for raising seedlings.
They also know how to do it, so they also clean up the floor, just like Su Yuanyuan did.
Others on the farm also knew that their two and a half-year-old children wanted to grow sweet potatoes.
They didn't have a harvest last year, even if they wanted to grow sweet potato seedlings, they didn't have enough, so they found each group leader, and then went to the field leader Feng.
This day, the two of them were picking up the leaves of corn stalks, which could be eaten by the livestock, and the remaining stalks were burned on the fire.
I saw Director Feng and Team Leader Ma coming over. They both took off their masks and said, "Director Feng, Team Leader Ma, what's wrong with you?"
"Xiao Tan, I heard that you two want to plant sweet potatoes in a large area?"
Tan Shaoting nodded, "Yeah, the two of us think sweet potatoes are more resistant to drought, and we don't dare to plant corn."
"I also think sweet potatoes are more resistant to drought." Ma Changshun nodded. Their family also decided the same way and also planted sweet potatoes.
"Do you two still have many sweet potatoes? Can you still grow seedlings?"
"Our sweet potatoes are enough for us." We also need to give some to the Zhao brothers and sisters, so there really isn't much.
“There are still some in the farm department, but if they don’t work, we sell them to households and let them grow their own rice seedlings.
Besides planting sweet potatoes, what else do you grow?”
"Grow twenty acres of corn and twenty acres of potatoes."
"Just grow this little food?"
"Director Feng, if you sow it but still get nothing, it's better to plant something else so that you can eat it and won't starve to death."
Feng Baoshan was speechless now. He thought this was the only way to go.
I went back to arrange the sale of sweet potatoes, and the two of them were doing their homework at home.
There is no free time in the countryside, there is work everywhere.
The two of them collected all the corn stalks outside the yard and discussed making a sweet potato bed from tomorrow.
"You said we have so much rotten firewood, why don't we also heat the sweet potato ridges?"
"Even if the sweet potato seedlings come out early, you can't plant them, right? Otherwise they will freeze to death? There's no point in worrying."
Su Yuanyuan nodded after hearing this and forgot about this. The temperature has a big bearing on it.
The next day, the two of them started plowing the land with their donkeys. At the end of the day, three acres of land had been plowed, but it was really too dry. According to the situation, even if it was planted, it would not be able to grow.
Tan Shaoting looked at the listless little girl. "Can't we just water it at night? Don't worry. If we can't do anything, then others will be even worse."
"But we look different that way."
"It doesn't matter, just say we did it at night."
After the two had dinner, they practiced for a while before going out. But Su Yuanyuan stopped.
"Let's plant the sweet potatoes during the day tomorrow and put the film on them. Otherwise, I'll feel bad if they dry out."
They had some storage bottles filled with water, but they were definitely not enough for anything.
The next day, the two started planting sweet potatoes. After planting a ridge, they covered it with mulch.
Only one acre of land was worked in one day. It was really a tedious job.
At night, Tan Shaoting did not ask Su Yuanyuan to come out. He used his special powers to water the acre of land.
The next day, Su Yuanyuan took a look around. It was covered with a straw curtain and there were water droplets on the film. It looked pretty good.
It took them three days to finish the rest.
There are also some sweet potatoes in the space. Tan Shaoting means to plant them all and cultivate them into seedlings.
"Even if you give it to the Zhao brothers and sisters, they may not be able to produce seedlings."
"There are not enough straw curtains."
"I'll go and ask today." There are restrictions everywhere, so there's no way around it.
Su Yuanyuan only opened the straw curtain within two or three hours at noon, and then closed it at two o'clock in the afternoon. This was also a tedious task.
But there is no way. There are too many sweet potatoes to be planted. That is more than 100 acres of land. Even if one acre of land requires a thousand seedlings, 130 acres of land requires too many sweet potato seedlings.
The sweet potato seedlings grow one after another. When they are almost full, they can be picked. At that time, the sweet potatoes will continue to grow.
Tan Shaoting came back and took some, probably only two ridges. So the two of them started digging the ground.
At this time, many families on the farm also started to raise seedlings.
There were many people working in the fields. Su Yuanyuan could only see small black dots and knew they were the people working.
It’s the end of April and the sweet potato seedlings have all sprouted up.
The two are now digging the sweet potato ridges. Anyway, they are not worried about the water evaporating. The main reason is that there is no water evaporation.
“Should Yuanyuan make the sweet potato ridge bigger?”
"Theoretically, it should be like this. After all, sweet potatoes grow in the soil. When the sweet potato ridges get bigger, the soil will loosen up, so of course they will grow faster."
The two of them also plowed the entire field, and at night they used their special powers to plow the sweet potato ridges.
In this way, until the first batch of sweet potato seedlings came down, Su Yuanyuan felt that the temperature was still low, so she pulled out all the sweet potato seedlings and put them into the space. The two of them continued to dig the sweet potato ridges.
Twenty days later, the second crop of sweet potato seedlings was also pulled up.
Now the two of them have planted 100 acres of sweet potato ridges.
“Should we plant sweet potatoes or potatoes first?”
A few days ago, Su Yuanyuan and the others had cut the potatoes into small pieces and soaked them in Lingquan water. Now they are ready to be planted.
"Tonight we will water and cover with mulch. Tomorrow we will plant potatoes."
Tan Shaoting absolutely listened to Su Yuanyuan. Although she looked younger than him, he just felt that he should listen to her.
