Chapter 38 Planting vegetables at the beginning of spring
Chapter 38 Planting vegetables at the beginning of spring (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 38 Planting vegetables at the beginning of spring (please collect and recommend)
When the last few people left, they spent 200 yuan and bought some fine-scaled fish with Zhang An to take away.
Because after eating this fish at noon, they found that they no longer felt anything like what they had eaten before.
It was getting dark, so a few people did not stay to eat, but drove to the town to catch today's catch.
After dinner, Zhang An cleaned up the cement sand that fell when building the walls of the small house.
Tomorrow, the stone wall will be powdered with fine sand and cement, and the small door will be completed. Then Xiaohu and the others can move in.
Taking advantage of the evening, Zhang An walked into the cherry forest and took a look. This morning, Zhang An went to the town to buy cement. When he came back, the sun was shining all the time, so he didn't water them.
Now that the weather has cooled down, Zhang An brought a watering can from home and watered them one by one.
Less than half a month has passed, and these saplings have grown significantly taller, and many buds have sprouted.
Under the tree roots, maybe because of the spring water, the grass on the ground is also growing well.
It's okay, grow up quickly and cut it off to feed the pigs when they grow up, Zhang An thought.
The flowers, plants and trees in the courtyard, under Zhang An's care, are bursting with vitality. Everything in the Zhang family's courtyard is developing in a beautiful direction.
Many people have said that they will feel very comfortable if they sit in the yard of Zhang An's house.
Early in the morning, it began to drizzle.
It has begun to enter the second month of the lunar calendar, and there will be more and more rain in the future.
As for the pepper and eggplant seeds that were sown in the garden before, the seedlings have grown to a height of two to three inches.
Taking advantage of the relatively humid weather today, my family will transplant these seedlings first.
The ground for planting peppers had already been plowed and ridden, and Zhang An started to build the nest with a hoe.
Zhang Jianguo used a manure dustpan to soak the farmyard manure in the pens and put some in each pit.
Then he put the hot pepper and eggplant vines that he had pulled out into the pit.
Although the manure made by these animals is dirty, it is very nutritious and the plants grown in this way will grow very fast.
But don't spread too much, otherwise the seedlings will be easily burned.
The survival rate of pepper seeds this year was too high. There were still a lot of seedlings left after planting them in two parts of the field. After the eggplant seedlings were finally transplanted, there was no further planting.
You can ask your second aunt and third aunt if you want the remaining rice seedlings at home.
There are not enough rice seedlings raised in the village, and there are too many people who often go to other people's homes to ask for rice seedlings.
Some people may spread less, and some may spread more. Anyway, these are just human factors.
When the second aunt and the third aunt heard what Zhang An's mother said, they both took a look.
The seedlings grew very well. They were not only fresh, but also had strong main stems. There was enough left to plant two acres of land, so that I would not need to sow any more seeds at home.
In the end, the two families divided the remaining spicy rice and eggplant rice.
In the town, there are people who, during the big market, bring home-grown spicy rice to the market to sell.
However, you only dare to take out the peppers if they are of good quality at home. Otherwise, if someone else buys them and grows them poorly, they will scold you behind your back.
Sometimes the garden is too small because there is not enough food to grow.
But it doesn’t work even if the garden is big. I have planted a lot of vegetables but there is still an empty space.
After cutting off the cabbage greens that had been peeled off, there is still an empty piece.
Wang Fang is the kind of person who can be idle but restless. After Zhang An helped plow the ground, she found the corn seeds saved last year and started planting them.
This corn is not the corn grown in the field.
It's the glutinous rice grown at home for food. Many years ago, everyone grew a lot of it.
Because this is a local variety and tastes delicious, people who don't have enough to eat often use this to make corn rice.
In the past two years, everyone's living standards have improved, and there is not so much to plant.
And now the seed stations sell scientific hybrid corn and hybrid rice seeds.
The yield is indeed much higher than that of traditional local varieties, but they are not delicious and are only suitable for feeding livestock and making feed.
Moreover, they cannot save seeds, so you have to buy new ones every year.
In later generations, it seems that it is still illegal to keep seeds privately. Unless you plant them yourself, you will eat them yourself and cannot sell them for money.
But now every family will keep some, because the hybrid corn grown in the field, even when it is still young, tastes very bad, has a bad taste, and has too many corn husks.
Plant them now and they will be ready to eat after June.
At that time, you could eat it fried or boiled.
Zhang An's favorite thing was to beat the young corn into pulp and make corn cakes. It tasted delicious and filling, and it was rare to see anyone making it in later generations.
At the end of the planting, there was not much land left, so Wang Fang called Zhang An home. The three of them stood in the field, unable to turn around.
Spring sleepiness and autumn fatigue are special effects of the seasons. Zhang An didn't feel it yet when he was busy working in the fields.
After sitting by the stove for a while, I started to feel sleepy.
After a while, I lay on the stove and began to dream.
He didn't know how long it took, but he felt something licking his hand, making it feel wet.
Zhang An woke up and found that it was Xiaohu licking him.
This little guy's hair was covered with water and some grass leaves. He was holding a gray rabbit on the ground with his two front paws.
"You guys have gone into the mountains again, haven't you? It's raining and you haven't stayed at home. Look at your two brothers. They are dozing in their nests."
Zhang An mentioned the rabbit and found that it was not dead, but was trembling all over.
That's right, Xiaohu, basically everything he catches is alive, unlike the other two, who bite everything they catch to death.
I found some tattered clothes and wiped the water off Xiaohu's body.
It even shook its fur, and water droplets from its body splashed all over Zhang An.
Zhang An took a look and realized that this guy did it on purpose. After shaking, he kept his mouth wide open.
It provoked Zhang An to give it two slaps.
"Mom, Xiaohu went to the mountain and caught a rabbit."
Zhang An also took it out to show it to Wang Fang and Wang Fang. Both of them were very happy and kept saying that Xiaohu still had promise.
"From the Chinese New Year to now, if I eat fish and meat every day, I won't kill the rabbit if it's still alive. I'll lock it up first and wait until I want to eat it."
How can one get tired of eating meat? In this era, Wang Fang actually still wants to save some money, so it makes sense to eat better during the New Year.
But now that the Chinese New Year is over, her family still eats meat all the time, which makes her feel a little unaccustomed to it, and now she doesn't have to do any work.
It can only be said that Zhang An's mother's heart has not yet adapted to the improvement of family life.
However, the older generation is like this. It is better to have good food and drink than to have some stock in hand for peace of mind.
These take some time to get used to.
It just so happened that Zhang An wanted to raise some rabbits for his family. The space in the outer circle was so big that it was still a bit empty now that only the ducks lived in it.
And although the rabbits in the space have been restricted by Zhang An, there are still many.
So you still have to raise the rabbits, and then you will have a reason to sell them.
"Okay, I'll listen to my mother, and when the time comes, I'll let the tiger cubs go up the mountain for a walk and see if they can catch a few more. Let's raise rabbits."