The second uncle's family has a total of 86 acres of mango orchards, including the second uncle and the second aunt, as well as Ye Zhi and his wife.
Previously, Ye Mo was planting durian trees, and Ye Zhi and his wife came to help for a few days.
There are 86 acres of mangoes. During their free time, my second uncle and the others combed the orchards...only large fruits were retained. The yield was lower, but the unit price was higher.
Mangoes cost 2.9 yuan per kilogram.
86 acres of mangoes, a total of 25,600 catties, costing more than 70,000 yuan.
Chen Chen and his family have a lot of mangoes, covering more than 130 acres. There are no mangoes, and they come in different sizes. They cost 2.4 yuan per catty.
When Chen Chen and others were picking mangoes, many people came, including Chen Chen's uncles and uncles... They finished picking the mangoes in most of a day.
The mango picking cycle is relatively long, and it is not necessary to pick all the mangoes at once.
Most of the production team is still busy picking mangoes, and Ye Mo and the others are already digging holes to fertilize the orchard.
Three excavators work at the same time and the speed is very fast.
The micro digger is small and very flexible in the orchard.
A small excavator can enter the mango orchard. The density of the mango orchard here is not high and the aisles are spacious. But as the mango trees grow larger, it will be difficult for a small excavator to enter. As for the pomegranate orchard, if a small excavator enters, it will be scraped.
branches...
Digging a fertilizer pit, different orchards have different requirements.
The most single room is a single row of pits, one tree and one pit, which is the simplest.
Dig a hole slightly far away from the projection of the tree crown, with a depth of 60 centimeters. For micro digging, five or six shovels are needed. For small digging, three shovels are needed. Dig diagonally, shallow on both sides and deep in the middle... During the digging process, there will be
Bring a lot of soil out of both sides of the fertilizer pit.
Nowadays, the mango trees are not big, so when applying organic fertilizer, it should be a little farther away from the tree crown projection. If the branches are thick, dig a hole under the tree crown projection.
This time, heavy fertilizer is applied. Like Ye Mo’s parents’ orchard, each fruit tree is given 60 pounds of organic fertilizer. These organic fertilizers are also mixed with other fertilizers... just stay away from the trunks of the trees.
Absolutely most families choose to fertilize in a single row, that is, digging a hole for one tree...
Two-row, three-row and four-row options are rarely available.
For ordinary fertilization, two rows or three rows are both good. For ordinary fertilization, digging a hole to a depth of thirty to forty centimeters is enough.
To apply heavy fertilizer, you need to dig deeper. The more holes you dig...the more fine roots of the fruit tree will be damaged.
Now this is called fruit fat.
I had hired technicians before, but the organic matter content of their soil was low, and it was all loess...
It is almost impossible to improve the soil in one step.
Apply heavy fertilizer once after fruiting, wait until the end of the new year, and again before flowering.
Ye Mo drove a small excavator, hehehehehehe, in a hurry.
I haven’t driven an excavator for a long time. When I entered the orchard, I used a few shovels on the left and a few on the right... Then I reversed and used a few shovels on the left and a few on the right...
"It's time to start working." Third uncle came over on a battery car and looked at the hole Ye Mo dug.
"Uncle San." Ye Mo shouted.
The third uncle nodded and said with a smile: "I also want to dig a hole over there. After you are done, dig a hole for me over there too."
"Yes." Ye Mo said with a smile.
One tree and one hole.
There are 33 mango trees in one acre.
Micro-digging is very flexible in the orchard, the throttle is turned to the maximum, and the speed is very fast.
I came out after six in the morning and worked until noon...
Ye Mo calculated that he had dug a total of 507 holes through micro excavation.
Ye Ran started digging in the morning and dug 427 holes.
Dad Ye, dug 456 holes.
This progress is much slower than expected.
Now there are many people waiting for their excavators, and the work they have received has exceeded 3,000 acres of orchards.
I might even be able to get digging jobs later.
Digging a deep fertilizer pit for an orchard is normally... half a meter deep and about 60cm wide. An excavator can only dig six to seven hundred pits a day. The charge is about three thousand. If the quantity is large, it will not be less than two.
thousand.
Some people in the village have looked for outdoor machines outside. The cheapest quotes are more than 2,000 yuan, promising more than 600 pits per day. And if the work lasts for at least five days, it is more than 2,000 yuan. The number of days is less.
, just three thousand.
Today was digging Ye Mo's orchard, and Lin Xiaomian had a rest in the morning. Everyone was very tired these days, and she was also very tired, so she helped cook at home...
"This progress is a bit slow." Ye Mo said.
"It's not bad." Ye Ran said.
Only 42 acres were worked in one morning.
Today they went to the orchard as soon as it was dim and bright, including the afternoon... If everyone had Ye Mo's speed, they could work up to 100 acres in one day.
I thought it was easy to dig holes before, at least two to three hundred acres in one day. Now at this pace... it will take at least one and a half months to complete all the orders I received. Some orchards need to be backfilled, and some orchards do not need to be backfilled...
"I feel that our charges are too low. The lowest price quoted by other excavators is 2,100 yuan for 600 pits," Ye Ran said.
Their quotation is a unified quotation for micro digging and small digging, which is 100 yuan per hour.
This quote is actually quite good. The main reason is that the work received is so large...
After dinner, Uncle Chen came over again and took a look inside the orchard.
The fertilizer pit dug by the excavator is still beautiful.
But three excavators have been working on the orchard for a whole morning, and they haven't finished yet.
Did he know that Ye Mo and his family went to the orchard after six o'clock this morning and have been doing so until now.
"Third uncle." Ye Mo saw Chen Chen's father and shouted.
"Hey." The third uncle responded: "You can finish it this afternoon, right? When it's finished, go to my orchard first."
"So anxious." Ye Mo said.
"There is still a lot of work ahead..."
"After we're done here, we'll go over there." Ye Mo took out a cigarette and lit one for his third uncle.
The third uncle smiled.
Orchards can be fertilized first and then pruned. You can also be pruned first and then fertilized...
Pruning an orchard of more than 100 acres is not an easy task if you do it all by yourself. He wanted to apply fertilizer first and then prune the branches.
"Dig the hole, and then help us backfill it after we apply fertilizer." The third uncle said again. Their family has more than 130 acres of mangoes. It would take three excavators to dig the hole and backfill it... two and a half days.
It should be done in three days.
It's much cheaper to ask Ye Mo and the others to come over and do the work than to hire an excavator from outside.
If you hire an outside excavator to bring back the filling, it will cost at least more than 20,000 yuan.
With more than ten thousand, Ye Mo and the others should be able to do it.
"good."
The work of backfilling is simple and fast. But it is very slow if someone has to do the backfilling.
I didn’t take much rest at noon and continued working.
Lin Xiaomian took over Ye Ran's shift and went over to dig a little to let Ye Ran rest for the afternoon.
Everyone is very tired from helping everyone pick fruits during this time...
The small excavator can be air-conditioned, so the working environment is relatively good and relaxed.
After finishing the orchard at home, we directly entered the orchard of the third uncle's house.
Some areas of Ye Mo's orchard are adjacent to Uncle San's orchard, so just drive there...
One shovel, two shovels, three shovels, four shovels... A hole is dug. The excavator arm turns to another fruit tree and continues digging... Then reverses, repeats, repeats, repeats...
The orchard here has a relatively large space left. The spacing is 5 meters and the spacing between rows is 4 meters. Digging a pit just outside the canopy can dig two fertilizing pits for two trees without moving the excavator.