Of course, limiting watermelon varieties not only depends on market demand, but also depends on whether the family has enough labor to manage it.
For example, the early-maturing varieties that the boss highly recommended from the beginning have one melon per vine and do not require careful care.
Those that can have two or three melons per plant require more effort.
Pruning to encourage flowers and fruits...all takes effort.
Song Tan calculated the time in his mind——
"Boss, here are 12,000 early-maturing seedlings and 2,500 mid-maturing seedlings."
"Send it to my house before six-thirty tomorrow morning, okay?"
Alas, if I hadn't sold some bamboo shoots and a few kilograms of tea, I would have been short of money to buy seedlings.
Life is really hard.
OK, why not?!
With such a big business, the boss was so excited that he trembled with excitement. Even at the wholesale price of 35 cents per tree, he could still earn close to 5,000 yuan!
Oops, we don’t have enough seedlings in our own greenhouse, so we have to quickly find relatives to get more.
but……
The boss looked at her worriedly: "Girl, your house has ten or twenty acres of land where you grow watermelons? Have you found a shipping channel?"
"If you don't find a good one, don't plant so many, it's a big risk!"
With twenty acres of land, if you take care of small melons like this well, you can have an output of three thousand kilograms per mu. This is not a small amount! If you lose, it will break your muscles and bones!
Farming is never about sowing seeds, planting seedlings and waiting for the goods to be received. During this period, fertilizers and pesticides are manually managed, and you have to deal with natural and man-made disasters from time to time, which is very risky.
A year's worth of time had been put into it, and the house was also damaged. Suddenly there was a heavy rain, and the watermelons exploded in the field...
Which watermelon grower has never encountered this kind of thing?
Besides, this thing is put on the market in large quantities every year. If you plant so many without negotiating a good channel, it is very likely that the watermelons will not be sold and will rot in the ground.
At the end of that year, all the hard work has been wasted, and that’s the end of it.
The boss wants to make money, but in business, it is best for everyone to be prosperous, so that they can have continuous and stable income.
…
What are the shipping channels? Nowadays, apart from setting up stalls and online shopping, there is no other channel.
However, Song Tan was not worried and could only nod with determination at this moment:
"Don't worry, it's all settled."
"Okay, okay, okay, okay!"
The boss immediately beamed.
Although many times you will suffer some losses if you negotiate the price in advance, it is better to be safe.
In this way, I only need to maintain quality and quantity, and there are other seedlings in my own greenhouse to maintain customers and develop sustainably.
Alas, there are so many things to worry about when doing business these days.
…
When I got home, I saw the two men driving their tricycles happily.
Song Tan looked at her father who was reluctant to move on the tricycle, and couldn't help laughing: "Dad, didn't you say you bought it for my Uncle Zhang? Why can't you just ride it yourself?"
Song Sancheng now felt confident again: "Uncle Zhang, your legs and feet are inconvenient. Just let me help you with any work. You can't bully others like this, right?"
Okay, all the right of interpretation lies with the owner.
Of course, it's what dad said.
but……
"Dad, we need to find twenty more people to go up the mountain to help plant watermelons tomorrow."
Song Sancheng was riding on the car and couldn't help but frown again: these twenty people came and waved their hoes, and four thousand yuan was gone.
He was a little hesitant: "Farming watermelons is easier than the last time. How about we do it for 150 days?"
Song Tan thought for a while: "No need, dad, we are all from the same village. We always have work to do, and we don't have to make trouble if everyone is jealous."
Furthermore, one person's workload from morning to night is six to seven hundred trees, which is not easy to calculate.
The money should be given generously, and everyone should be more careful in planting the seedlings.
With twenty acres of mountain land, there will be plenty of room for the folks to use in the future.
Song Sancheng understands the hardships of farming better than Song Tan. This is just a mention, but now it is nothing more.
After he finished speaking, he stepped on the accelerator again, and the tricycle made a slight roar: "I'll go to the back mountain and tell your Uncle Zhang to prepare more fat when I have time."
This is not just to say something, it is clearly to show off!
Song Tan swallowed the unfinished words in his mouth, and now he had to change the topic: "Seventh cousin, I will have to work hard for you tomorrow."
The seventh cousin snorted: "This is what we do, no matter how hard it is, it's just a job!"
"If you really feel sorry for yourself, didn't you say that the white fungus on the mountain has grown? Hurry up and pick a basket of it. While the weather is nice these two days, I will dry it in the sun and stew it."
This thing is just like black fungus. It cannot be eaten immediately after being picked. It has to go through a drying or drying process.
Grandma Qi is old, her teeth are normal, and Tremella fungus is good for her stomach. Cousin Qi has been thinking about this for a long time.
Song Tan smiled: "Okay, I'll go up the mountain right away."
"Wait a minute," he pointed at Qiaoqiao, who was holding a tablet and watching Ultraman with great interest: "There is nothing to do now, so let's take him there too. It will be beneficial to gain more experience."
With Qiao Qiao already on board, is there still Zhang Yanping missing?
So the three of them each had a basket and a sharp bamboo knife, and headed up the mountain in high spirits.
Before leaving, Song Youde stopped him: "Tan Tan? Is the basket heavy? Why don't you put it on the back seat of my car and I'll take it up to you?"
Song Tan:......
How much can an empty basket weigh? Don’t you just want to show off by riding a bicycle? But grandpa, you can only seat one person in the back seat. Whether these three baskets can be stacked on top of each other is another matter!
Zhang Yanping also sighed: "That mountain is all my blood and sweat."
What kind of blood and sweat? Wasn’t it just that you spent some effort when you planted golden cherry trees?
Song Tan was too lazy to say anything.
After a while, he pointed forward and said: "Look, your hard work has blossomed. Why don't you pick two flowers back?"
The golden cherry blossoms planted in March are growing vigorously, and they are stimulated by spiritual energy. They are even sprouting bamboo shoots, leaving leaves and flower buds like crazy.
When it was planted, it was pruned to look like a low stake, and now its long branches and vines have hung on the fence.
The white yellow pistil flowers bloom, and they are full of fairy air. If you get closer and smell them, they still have a fresh fragrance!
No wonder there are still bees buzzing around even if there are only a few sparsely bloomed flowers.
"These flowers are so big!" Qiaoqiao immediately stepped forward and gestured: "When can they bloom more? I'll bring Big Bear here."
It's a pity that no one praised him for looking carefully.
Song Tan has also entered the chestnut forest and started picking white fungus against the neatly arranged mushroom sticks in the forest.
This is the first crop of white fungus. It is not very big. It seems that it has not stretched out at all.
The largest one is only about the size of a duck egg.
The sharp little bamboo knife selected such a big white fungus and stuck it to the root. With just a little force, it instantly cut them into the basket.