After entering the isolation cabin, pressurizing it, and taking off his space suit, Zhao Changxing finally saw the vegetables he had longed for.
At this moment, the spinach has only grown about a hand high, and is emerald green. It is obviously still in its early stages. If you are pursuing high yield, it is obviously inappropriate to harvest and eat it now. But Zhao Changxing can't wait any longer.
He was fed up with eating starch all day long.
Originally, the soilless cultivation workshop was equipped with supporting automatic harvesting equipment, but Zhao Changxing did not install them. Temporary buildings should be constructed as quickly as possible and as easy as possible.
Now, it can only be harvested manually.
Using a small sickle, Zhao Changxing carefully cut off a small handful of spinach. After thinking about it, he tried to cut off a few more spinach, but when he stretched out the sickle, he hesitated and finally gave up the plan.
At this moment, he had about five or six young spinach plants in his hand, which only weighed about one kilogram. He carefully put them into a portable incubator. Zhao Changxing put on his spacesuit in the isolation cabin and carried the box to the Falcon 1 spacecraft.
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The spacecraft took off and carried him back to the Spark spacecraft.
After taking the starch generated in the reactor, he quickly came to the kitchen. First, he washed the spinach, then threw it into the boiling water and blanched it. Then he took it out and cut it into sections. After making the starch into a paste, he poured it into the boiling water pot.
, boiled, and then added the spinach cut into segments.
In a short time, it was taken out of the pot, added with salt, soy sauce, sesame oil, etc., and Zhao Changxing couldn't wait to bring it to the table.
At this moment, a few segments of green spinach floated in the monotonous starch porridge, which immediately improved the style a lot and looked much more delicious.
He carefully scooped up a spoonful and put it into his mouth. The familiar taste of vegetable fiber spread to his brain, filling his mind with pleasure.
Before blanching, the spinach weighing a pound was paired with starch porridge, and he swallowed it in his stomach.
This is the most satisfying meal Zhao Changxing has had in this period of time.
The only pity is that there is no oil, otherwise these baby spinach will taste better if they are stir-fried.
"The planting of soybeans must be accelerated." Zhao Changxing thought secretly.
Thinking of the delicious textures such as bean sprouts, tofu, yuba, and even fermented bean curd and stinky tofu, his mouth began to secrete saliva again unconsciously.
With soybeans, he can make all of these things. Don't forget, the Fire spacecraft also reserves corresponding strains of bacteria. When the time comes, take them out and ferment the raw materials to make them.
During the following period, he began to frantically collect various compounds and prepare nutrient solutions. Finally, after more than ten days, he prepared all the nutrient solutions needed for the rice, millet, and soybeans to be planted later.
The substrate used to fix the root system was also collected, so he carefully sown the seeds of these crops.
Thinking that it would take three months for these crops to mature, he felt impatient.
Stir-fry spinach, bean sprouts, and tofu in oil, and pair it with a big bowl of steaming rice or rice porridge. Just thinking about it makes you fascinated by the enjoyment.
At this moment, the spinach was fully grown and ready for harvest. He spent a day harvesting it completely and temporarily stored it in the living area. Anyway, there is a lot of space here, and the temperature can be lowered for refrigeration and preservation.
This season's spinach harvest was a little less than expected, only about 120 kilograms. Except for those that were harvested early because I couldn't control it, the yield was still a little less. This may be due to some subtle changes in the preparation of the nutrient solution.
Error, but it doesn't matter, you can adjust it slowly later.
120 kilograms of spinach, and it will be able to produce more than 150 kilograms every month in the future. It is obviously impossible to eat it all by yourself. But Zhao Changxing already has plans for this.
In the following time, he began to devote all his energy to building the third building of Humanity Base No. 1.
Livestock breeding workshop.
It still had an area of about one hundred square meters, and it took him about twenty days to complete the construction, including internal partitions, shelves, etc.
The livestock breeding workshop has only been divided into one partition for the time being, with an area of about 18 square meters, two meters wide and nine meters long. A row of shelves 0.6 meters wide and four floors high are placed at both ends of the wall. Each floor is also covered by
He divided it into 15 parts, with a total of 60 cages. Each cage can raise a chicken, and a total of 60 chickens can be raised.
That's right, Zhao Changxing plans to start raising chickens. The extra spinach that he can't finish is just used to feed the chickens. Although eating only spinach is definitely not nutritionally balanced, he can add some calcium tablets and the like.
You can barely raise them. Even if the quality of the meat is poor, it is still meat.
God knows how long I haven't eaten meat.
Zhao Changxing was tired of eating starchy spinach porridge every day and was in urgent need of new food.
During this period, he has eaten 40 kilograms of the 120 kilograms of spinach he harvested previously, and the remaining 80 kilograms are stored through low-temperature preservation technology. Although it is no longer fresh, there is still no problem eating it. What's more, in ten days,
The second crop of spinach will be ready for harvest in about 10 days.
After setting up the chicken cages, building water feeding and heat preservation equipment, and installing automatic cleaning equipment, Zhao Changxing placed the 60 chicks that had been bred in advance in the Spark spacecraft into the cages one by one.
These 60 chicks are of two different breeds, 30 of which are broiler chickens, using a breed that can grow quickly. On earth, if professional feed is used and professional large-scale breeding is adopted, they can be released from the cage in as soon as 30 days. Of course.
, it would be good to be able to eat meat out of the cage within 60 days here.
The other 30 chickens were laying hens, raised specifically for laying eggs. Recalling the delicious taste of fried eggs, Zhao Changxing's mouth began to secrete saliva again.
Eggs are not only needed by Zhao Changxing, but also by children in the future. Just eating rice porridge is definitely not enough. You must have eggs and chicken soup to grow up healthily.
The 60 ignorant chicks were a little frightened when they first entered the cage, but they soon fell in love with the environment here. Seeing the chicks chirping and sticking their heads out to drink water in front of the water pipe, Zhao Changxing nodded with satisfaction.
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Chop the spinach, add starch - the chickens are still too young now, so they can't just eat spinach, Zhao Changxing has to give some of his rations to them - and add calcium tablets, vitamins and other things to mix into feed, and pour it into the automatic
Zhao Changxing left the feeder.
Different from the plants in the soilless cultivation workshop, Zhao Changxing in the livestock breeding workshop installed it as completely as possible. The main reason is that animals are different from plants. For plants, it is not fully automatic, so you can harvest it yourself.
It doesn't take long, but animals are different.
They have to be fed every day, and chicken manure has to be collected every day. If it can no longer be highly automated, it will be too troublesome. Now that Humanity Base No. 1 is full of waste, he really doesn't have that much time.
After finishing today's work, Zhao Changxing returned to the Spark spacecraft again. After eating the starch spinach porridge, he began to plan the next construction task.
Up to now, Humanity Base No. 1 has three buildings with an area of 100 square meters, which are the subsistence area, the soilless cultivation workshop, and the livestock breeding workshop.
The subsistence area provides energy, while the soilless cultivation workshop and livestock breeding workshop are responsible for converting this energy into vegetables, staple food and meat to maintain their own survival.
At this moment, the output of Humanity No. 1 base is no longer a problem to support one's own survival, which means that the most embarrassing stage has passed. From a long-term planning perspective, it is time to carry out the second phase, which is the permanent Humanity No. 1.
The construction of the base was completed.
The construction of the second phase cannot be done as easily as the construction of the first phase. Its construction area will be very large, and it is obvious that the method of supporting columns cannot be used. This means that the land needs to be leveled and the foundation must be
Do it appropriately.
Although there will be no spontaneous earthquakes on Sedna, nor are there any natural disasters such as wind and rain, the foundation may seem insignificant, but it must be there anyway.
He has to prepare for some extreme situations, such as an earthquake caused by an asteroid impact.
This means a lot of work and takes a long time. But fortunately, the first phase of construction can provide him with a strong backing and give him enough time to do these things.
"The second phase of construction will take about five years to complete."
If all twenty astronauts were there, it might have been completed in less than a year. But now he is the only one left.
Five years...by then, the children will all be in kindergarten.
Thinking of the children, he ordered Xiao Xi: "Give me the information about the artificial womb."
"Good captain".
Xiao Xi projected a picture again.
At this moment, they have been pregnant for almost three months, and their body length is already about seven or eight centimeters, and their weight is about 50 grams. At this moment, they can barely look like humans, but they look ugly.
In more than six months, they will be born.
Looking at the children who were still pregnant, Zhao Changxing thought secretly: "The construction time of the second phase of the project is too long, and the children can't wait. In the past few months, I have to take time to find ways to expand some food."
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After much deliberation, the first phase of construction still cannot be stopped and two more buildings must be added.
The first is the automated nutrient solution preparation workshop, which is used to automatically produce the nutrient solution required for crop growth - you only need to throw in the substances containing different elements and different compounds collected from the Sedna star. Next, this article
The smart production line will automatically separate and purify different compounds, and prepare them into nutrient solutions through a series of reactions for final use by crops.
The second is to build a highly intelligent soilless cultivation workshop. First, it can increase food production, and second, it can expand food types. In this way, children can grow as healthily as possible after they are born.