The orchards of Ye Mo's parents, his second uncle, his third uncle, and Tang Xun's family all have water towers installed.
The water tower is a plastic water tank that can hold 20 tons of water.
Over at the production team, half of the orchards have water towers installed, which are mainly used for water and fertilizer.
Ye Mo went back to take a shower and drove to the production team.
Everyone is helping to carry fertilizers, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace element water-soluble fertilizers... This time it is not appropriate to apply too much fertilizer. The main purpose is to water.
Irrigation before flowering, and water and fertilizer at the same time...
For 51 acres of mangoes, a total of 5 bags of fertilizer were used, which is 400 kilograms.
In winter, there is actually less irrigation in orchards. The most important thing is to irrigate before flowering and afterward.
Team 11 is at a relatively high altitude. The current maximum temperature has not yet reached 30 degrees Celsius, and the temperature at night is even lower.
As long as the temperature is suitable, watering in advance can awaken the vitality of fruit trees.
The earlier you water, the earlier it will bloom.
But the mangoes in their area do not pursue early maturity, but rather suppress the flowering period. That is to say, delay the flowering time... so that they mature later.
This is March, March 7th.
The temperature rises quickly.
There was a light rain last month, and it has been dry since then. The sun is strong, and the soil moisture evaporates quickly...
Many bosses in the village started watering in early March.
"Isn't it a little early to make water and fertilizer for my pomegranates over there?" Tang Xun asked.
"It's still early for pomegranates to bloom," Ye Zhidao said.
"It should be the end of the month, or the beginning of April." Tang Xun said.
"Isn't there a technician? What did the technician say?"
"Now is the budding stage. Water frequently, small amounts and often." Tang Xun said: "Recently, I turn on drip irrigation every night when I go back, once every three days. The technician said that after the 20th, I will start supplying water and fertilizer."
"Just listen to the technicians. None of us have ever planted pomegranates," Ye Mo said.
"Yeah." Ye Zhi also nodded.
The climate in different places is different, and the flowering time of fruit trees is also different.
In some places, pomegranates only bloom in May and June.
It heats up quickly here, and the flowering time is early...
Like mango trees, there are also mango trees in Gaoshanping, which have just bloomed.
There are not many mango trees in Gaoshanping, and Ye Mo doesn't manage them very much. The mango trees at Xiaomian's house bloom earlier, and are now in full bloom.
There is an altitude difference of more than 200 meters between Team 11 and the foot of the mountain. The orchards that were watered in advance are beginning to bloom.
Pour the fertilizer into the barrel water tower. Ye Mo climbs up and a machine stirs it to speed up the hydrolysis of the fertilizer.
Ye Mo's mother went over and turned off the external water supply, and Ye Mo turned on the water tower switch...
51 acres, with a main switch, water-soluble fertilizer enters the orchard along with the pipe and is irrigated next to the fruit trees.
Just a 20-ton water tower is far from enough to irrigate 51 acres of orchards. After the water-soluble fertilizer drip irrigation from the water tower is finished, the irrigation water must be turned on.
For this drip irrigation, the soil around the fruit trees should be soaked.
Then I went to my second uncle’s house to carry fertilizer...
"Dad, did they really go fishing?" Ye Mo asked.
"No way." Ye Zhi complained: "What's so fun about fishing? Is it more fun than playing cards?"
"Don't tell me, fishing is indeed more fun than playing cards," Tang Xun said.
"The water level at the reservoir has dropped sharply. Now that the temperature has risen, the fish inside should be easy to catch... Let's try it another day," Chen Chen said.
"Hurry up and move the fertilizer." Ye Mo said, "When you are free, it will be April at least."
There are three water towers here for Uncle Er...
There are also three water towers on Chen Chen's side.
Each water tower contains hundreds of kilograms of fertilizer...
After the transportation was completed, the drip irrigation was turned on, and the sky became dark.
Ye Mo also said to go to the reservoir and see that Dad and the others were back.
"The Air Force again?" Tang Xun asked.
"Basically." Tang Ming said, "Have you finished it?"
"It's done."
"Come over for dinner."
I still had dinner at Ye Mo’s place in the evening.
Ye Mo went over to pick up Aunt Xiaomian. As for Aunt Xiaomian, she went fishing with her in the afternoon.
There was fried pork with green peppers, some bacon, sausages, and vegetables.
Lin Xiaomian and the others played mahjong at home in the afternoon and helped with the cooking.
"The Air Force is in the air force again today?" Wang Yue looked at her father and asked.
"What do you mean? I haven't caught any fish in two days." Wang Hao rolled his eyes at her. Didn't he catch any fish? He asked again and again... he was very annoyed.
"I guess it's due to the temperature of the reservoir water. Now the temperature has gone up, but the water in the reservoir is still very cold." Niu Youde said, "It is estimated that fishing in the reservoir will be easy only in April."
"You have only been fishing for two days and you have become a fishing expert." Yun Xiuzhi looked at her husband and said with a smile.
"Let's analyze it."
Although, Ye Mo’s father also analyzed why there were two consecutive days of air force...
The watermelon and cantaloupe vines have all been pruned.
the next day.
Ye Mo drove the sprayer over and sprayed foliar fertilizer rich in phosphorus and potassium.
When 300 liters of solution are loaded at a time, the machine starts to feel "smoky".
Tang Xun was riding a small tricycle. Chen Chen helped push it, and Ye Mo held a spray gun...
Ye Mo's parents brought hoes over and dug a shallow ditch next to the film. This shallow ditch was an irrigation ditch. After the fruit was set, water-soluble fertilizer was poured in, and irrigation...
In four days, foliar fertilizer was sprayed once.
Some of the flowers on the watermelon vine have fallen off.
Then we have to start picking the buds again. When the watermelon is as big as an egg, we start selecting melons.
Small watermelon, one main vine and two vines.
Leave three for the main vines and two for the deputy vines...
Select the melons and pinch off the new shoots. Then start fertilizing...
Add organic fertilizer. The organic fertilizer is mainly cake fertilizer and granular organic fertilizer, and then add urea. It looks like 30 grams per plant...
A shallow trench has been dug before, fertilizer has been applied, and watering has followed.
When the watermelon is setting fruit, it is best not to water it. Wait until the watermelon is firm before watering it.
The melon fields are large and the work is done in batches.
After watering, the watermelon expands rapidly. During this period, when the small watermelon is as big as a goose egg, select the melon again.
Crooked melons will inevitably appear during the growth of watermelons. Remove crooked melons and weak-growing watermelons. Leave two main vines and one secondary vine...
As for the large watermelon variety, it is Xinong No. 8. This kind of watermelon can easily grow to more than ten kilograms each.
Ye Mo left two vines. After choosing melons twice, there were two melons on one vine.
A plant with many melons is very risky. The safest thing is to have one melon per vine. That is, one melon per vine...
A plant with many melons does not mean a vine with many melons.
Ye Mo is now one thing with two things. In the eyes of knowledgeable people, this is a joke.
The big watermelons that Ye Mo accidentally planted last year had one vine and two melons, but the size... was basically about twenty pounds each. The others were three melons per plant, three vines, with one watermelon on each vine...
The smallest one weighs more than thirty pounds.
Based on last year’s experience, the watermelons grown in Lingquan have similar taste and texture, which is the difference in size.
Watermelon, a total of 130 acres.
Pursuing high profits requires taking high risks. This includes oversized watermelons in greenhouses, which are all high risks...
An ordinary watermelon field uses less than a thousand liters of spiritual spring.
The planting area is so large that the moisture is distributed to every melon vine. This amount... can be described as rare.
I don’t know if this little spiritual spring can support Ye Mo’s ambition.
For the sake of conservatism, and with the persuasion of people around me, there are thirty acres of watermelons for one vine and one melon. Those 30 acres of watermelon are all black beauties...
Even if something goes wrong later, the whole army will not be wiped out. At the very least, wages can be paid.