Song Sancheng frowned: "Are you planning to plant rice on dozens of acres of land?"
Otherwise, we wouldn’t need so much milkvetch to increase the fertilizer. How many kilograms? Only five or six kilograms of milkvetch seeds are needed for one acre of land.
Now at the end of February, I still have my down jackets and cotton-padded jackets on me. After March, the temperature has improved rapidly. As long as there is no late spring cold and the temperature difference between day and night is not that big, most crops can be planted.
If you plant milkvetch, you can at least till the end of April and May before planting again... That's fine, don't delay planting.
According to Song Sancheng's farming experience, May is the most suitable time for planting in rural areas. There is a late spring cold in March and April every year, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and the germination of seeds will be frozen to death, so it is not suitable.
It's just that he felt unhappy thinking about spending so much money and wasting time in the first place.
Song Tan thought about it for a long time last night, and now he said calmly: "The bottom two fields grow rice, and our family will eat it ourselves."
The two pieces of land add up to three or four acres, and now the rice yield is high, enough for the family to eat and some to give to relatives and friends.
Song Tan won't consider it anymore. It's hard to grow rice, so there won't be any more.
You can also try raising fish in rice fields.
“I’ll plant milkvetch to fertilize the other fields first, and then I’ll plant vegetables when it gets warmer.”
Song Sancheng no longer objected: "Growing vegetables is good, and vegetables are easy to sell. When the time comes, you can ride a three-wheeler to the street and sell them." The cost is low, the harvest is fast, and it is easier than growing rice.
Song Tan laughed: "Yes, that's what I planned too." That's weird. There are only a few people in the town?
If you want to go, you have to go to the city.
In fact, Song Tan thought about his work last night and had some other ideas - nowadays people like to watch pastoral videos to decompress and calm down, but there are so many rural areas, how can we quickly catch people's attention?
Either beautiful or unique.
Her hometown, Yunqiao Village, is really ordinary.
In this way, we must focus on "beauty".
Milkvetch has a short growth cycle, is hardy and easy to grow, and blooms beautifully. When the time comes to shoot a video, the first shot will be to attract traffic to the stretching milkvetch flower field.
Otherwise, if there is so much land and vegetables, when will it become a high-quality product?
…
At the end of February, there were not many people in the agricultural supply store. Song Tan asked for 70 kilograms of milkvetch seeds. The boss was also very surprised:
"How much land do you plant? Five kilograms of raw seeds per acre is enough, and ten kilograms of medicinal seeds. The prices are the same, 10 yuan per kilogram."
Raw seeds are raw seeds that have not been processed.
Medicinal seeds have insect- and disease-preventing medicines wrapped around the seeds, which have good resistance.
Song Tan thought to himself that I can't even cultivate a white spirit for a hundred years. There are still ways to repel insects, so he made a decisive choice:
"I want the original seeds!"
In addition to milkvetch, other seeds also need to be purchased, such as vegetable seeds, from pak choi, which has the shortest growth cycle, to peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers that need to be cultivated...you must buy them all.
The seeds sold locally may not be as complete as online, but they are the most adaptable for novices. So when Song Tan finally bought it, he spent more than a thousand yuan, and Song Sancheng was heartbroken.
Song Tan is still asking!
"Do you have any rice seeds? I want it to taste good."
The boss looked at it and said: "Yes, this long-grain incense tastes so good that you can't buy it for ten yuan per catty. But the yield is low, the yield per mu is only 1,800 catties."
Song Tan couldn't help but sigh - technology is productivity!
In the world of cultivation, for those spiritual valleys that have not been hybridized and optimized, she could only produce five to six hundred kilograms per month even though she spent all her spiritual energy on them.
"How to sell it?"
The boss was also unambiguous: "This seed is expensive, 80 per catty, and one acre of land costs two catties."
How expensive are eight pounds of seeds in four acres of land? Thinking of the fragrant rice without impurities, Song Tan's mouth watered:
"want!"
…
After spending two thousand yuan to buy seeds, Song Sancheng took a puff of cigarette and spoke earnestly:
"Tan Tan, don't worry about buying things slowly. Farming the land is also expensive, so you have to prepare a lot of money."
The cultivator requires additional rakes with different depths. If you buy it, these will need to be equipped separately. They rent it, so they don't have this problem.
However, their fields have not been plowed for many years, and they have to hire someone to clean up the weeds and trees, which costs 150 yuan per person per day. With seven fields and ten people working in one day, another 2,000 yuan is gone.
If you don't invite people, it will waste time and affect their farming.
Then a fire must be burned in the field before the land can be plowed. It must be plowed and dried for two days before planting can be done.
Even though it is machine work, their fields here can only plow five acres of land in one day. Fifteen acres will take three days and 1,500 yuan.
Fertilizers and pesticides will follow... When Song Sancheng thought about the money spent, he felt that his daughter had spent too much money!
"You grow so many vegetables, do you need to build a greenhouse to raise the seedlings? Didn't you say that you have to hire people to dig the mountain? What are you going to do on the mountain?"
After thinking about it this way, Song Tan felt a little numb.
Even before construction started, tens of thousands of dollars were spent and the plan was gone.
Song Tan made a decision immediately: "Dad, let's not dig up the mountain now. I plan to plant black fungus and white fungus on the mountain. I will use the oak trees on our mountain to grow the fungus, so there is no need to clean it up."
There are many hemp oak trees in their local area, also called hemp chestnut trees. This kind of wood is strong and can withstand fire. This is what Song Tan uses to bake in his house.
Of course, it is also a good material for growing black fungus and white fungus.
It’s just that now we use fungus bags to plant directly. This method has not appeared for many years. At the same time, the price of tree fungi has increased.
Song Tan vaguely remembered that when she was a child, black fungus and white fungus were grown at home.
As a result, every household planted it, but the promised purchaser did not come. In the end, they had to dry it and store it at home, where they ate it for several years.
Song San was so numb.
——Growing black fungus and white fungus?
Then you don’t have to cut down the tree to process the trunk? Cut down a trunk of suitable thickness, punch holes one by one, and then fill it with bacteria...
Because it takes up space and has low output, it has been slowly eliminated by the strain pack. But what Tan Tan said makes sense. Now we just want to be pure and pollution-free. The strain pack looks like it, regardless of whether there is pollution, it is better than tree species anyway.
It's missing some flavor.
Song Sancheng sighed.
But then I thought about it - forget it, there are a lot of oak trees planted anyway, and the hills are crowded, so I might as well cut some.
It’s always better than spending money outside.
Spend it, spend it. Once the money is spent, it will be out of sight!
He said in a sullen voice: "I'll ask the person who sells the strains."
Seeing her father like this, Song Tan felt guilty - because she bought a computer and some accessories online last night, spending 8,000 to ensure the efficiency of post-editing.
But the flowers are all spent.
Song Tan then struck while the iron was hot: "Dad, clean up the pig pen at the door. Let's raise three or four pigs this year."
The food is delicious, but the meat must also keep up!
Song Sancheng almost jumped up: "You have so much work, you want to exhaust me and your mother to death!"
After thinking about it, pork is quite expensive now, which actually makes me quite moved, so I softened my expression:
"We can't build a pigsty in front of our house now. The village says it affects the appearance, so the firewood shed must be tidied up."
…
…
…
[As for cutting down trees, there are many hills in rural areas and every household has them. The tacit understanding among everyone is that if they are cut down, they must be planted, so there is no need to worry about cutting them all down.]
[There is scientific guidance on planting fungi in the forest, sure. The basswood and white fungus we eat now are grown in this way, but there is no basswood here, just use local trees.]
[Regarding the pictures of plants, I didn’t put the easter eggs for fear that it would be troublesome for you. If you have pictures later, you can actively add them to this chapter. If you are interested, click on it, and if you are not interested, don’t look at it. It will not affect your reading.]
[If you have other questions, just ask them in the comment area. If I can answer them, I will give explanations like this. I will put them in the chapters for free. I will try my best to put them in words so as not to occupy the word count.]