On September 20th, the Second Brigade of Donggang Commune began to participate.
Early in the morning, Xu Shiyan led about a hundred strong young men, each carrying tools and sacks, and drove the carriage straight to the No. 2 Bridge.
Come here, there are those who clear out the shed, those who cut the ginseng leaves, and those who pick up the ginseng with a three-pronged pick.
Everything is arranged in an orderly manner, and everyone is busy with their own work without delaying anything.
Bangchui was unearthed, and Xu Shiyan came over to take a look. Yes, it was okay.
He is in good shape, has no rust, and is not small in the eyes of others, but in Xu Shiyan's case, he feels that he is still a little short of a person.
This is the reason why there is no top dressing. If the fertility is enough, it will definitely grow bigger.
When Xu Shiyan takes charge of the work, he does not need to do the work himself. He only needs to walk back and forth and be responsible for scheduling and supervising the work.
Watch everyone working, don't break the mallet, don't pick it up too slowly and bury it in the soil.
The harvest is always pleasant.
Seeing piles of doll-like mallets being put into sacks, no matter who you are, will feel that the hard work is worth it.
The ginseng of the second brigade is growing well and the yield is not low.
Although the workers are tired, their faces are full of smiles. This is the happiness of a good harvest.
The more than a hundred people were all strong young men, so they naturally worked quickly. In three or four days, all the people making goods for three thousand feet were finished.
The Second Brigade has a processing plant run by the brigade on the south bank of Huangni River, in front of Fortress Mountain. In front of the processing plant is a small river.
It happened that the river water was diverted, a large pond was built, and the water ginseng was soaked and washed.
The processing plant is quite large, with clearly divided areas.
There are ginseng soaking pools, ginseng brushing pools, ginseng steaming rooms, drying rooms, and rows of racks in the yard with forks for drying ginseng. All kinds of facilities are available.
The girls and wives in the team were all vying to work in the processing factory to earn work points. A group of people gathered together, chatting and laughing, which was extremely lively.
While others were busy earning work points, Su Anying could only coax her child at home, making her jump in a hurry.
But what can be done? Xu Haiyuan is too young and there is no one to help look after the child. She can't carry her son to work, right?
Even if Xu Shiyan was willing, the processing factory wouldn't let him.
"Daughter-in-law, don't worry. Our family doesn't need you to earn work points now. As long as you take care of the house, it will be better than anything else."
Seeing his wife's anxious look, Xu Shiyan couldn't help but laugh or cry, so he could only comfort her.
"Daughter-in-law, don't underestimate me at home. If no one does these miscellaneous tasks, how can I work outside to earn work points?"
In his previous life, when Su Anying was alive, Xu Shiyan had the same thoughts as other men.
Don’t you think women are just looking after the house, cooking and taking care of the children at home? What’s so tiring about it? Still nagging every day?
But after Su Anying left, Xu Shiyan realized that a family would be completely different without a woman.
Food will not cook by itself, clothes will not become clean by itself, and the inside and outside of the house will not become spotless by itself.
A woman's life is stuck in these little things that others don't care about, but she still supports a family.
So after returning from rebirth, Xu Shiyan changed his mind.
Men and women have different divisions of labor in society, and no matter what they do, they are all important.
Su Anying grew up in a different environment. There were six sisters in the family and there were no boys. She was used to going out to work just like the boys.
Normally she was fine, but every time it was time for spring planting and autumn harvest, she felt something was wrong staying at home, mainly because her identity had not changed.
After being persuaded by Xu Shiyan several times, Su Anying gradually understood that she now had a husband to rely on, and there was no need to work as hard as before.
So he stayed at home with peace of mind to take care of the children. The house and the outside were tidied up neatly, and Xu Shiyan didn't have to worry about anything.
In the blink of an eye, September has passed, and October has passed more than half. Ginseng seeds have grown in the ginseng field. After sorting, they are ready to plant ginseng.
At the beginning of spring, Yu Shouguang said that he would allocate one hundred feet of ginseng soil to Xu Shiyan and let him experiment with bean cake base fertilizer.
At that time, Xu Shiyan used one hundred feet to ferment the bean cake powder. As a result, the effect of top dressing with bean cake water was obvious in summer.
Yu Shouguang regretted this, so he discussed with Xu Shiyan whether he could find a way to get more fertilizer, and get as much ginseng as possible this year for experiments.
This matter is not difficult for Xu Shiyan.
Not only can he ferment bean cakes as base fertilizer, but he can also make mixed fertilizer.
Stir-fried and crushed perilla seeds, stone-coated beans, decomposed bean cake powder, and kangdong soil are fully mixed in a ratio of 2, 2, 2, 4, and fermented again.
When planting ginseng, apply about four pounds per foot as base fertilizer. After three years, the yield can increase by 20 to 30%.
If combined with bean cake water top dressing, the yield can be increased by up to 50%.
Of course, Xu Shiyan would not teach this recipe to others.
The preparation of the mixed fertilizer was entirely done by Xu Shiyan himself, and no one else used it.
And he asked for so many things that no one could guess the exact recipe.
Not all skills can be taught for free. This skill is the experience accumulated by Xu Shiyan for many years in his previous life.
Even if chemical fertilizers were introduced later, they would not be as good as this method.
Ginseng grows vigorously and is not prone to disease. It is weighed before shipment and has no wrinkles or white skin. Just kidding, who would spread the word easily?
If Xu Shiyan doesn't teach the method, the team will have nothing to do. Anyway, as long as the harvest is good, the rest can't be too greedy.
There are 5,000 feet of ginseng land on this side of the Xiaohei River, 4,300 feet of which are planted with ginseng, and another 1,000 feet of which are left to sow seeds.
Planting ginseng is not an easy task, so the two of them went to the ground to put the pond first in the morning.
It means to use tools to spread out part of the large soil ridge. According to the requirements of soil reference, the soil layer must be of a certain thickness.
Then use a shovel to dig trenches on the surface of the pool according to a certain row spacing, with a depth of five to six centimeters.
If you do not need to fertilize, you can directly place the ginseng seeds in small furrows. The distance between the plants should be determined according to the size of the ginseng seeds.
The larger the ginseng seeds, the farther apart the plants are. The smaller the ginseng seeds, the closer the plant spacing can be, leaving enough space for growth.
Arrange the ginseng seeds and cover them with a layer of soil of six to eight centimeters, and that's it.
This is a normal procedure for planting ginseng. However, in experimental fields that require fertilization, there is an additional process of spreading fertilizer and covering the soil before placing the ginseng seeds.
In this way, the speed of planting ginseng will be slower.
Of course, the second brigade has plenty of manpower to work, so just go slow, no one cares.
As long as ginseng production increases, this labor cost can be ignored.
Planting ginseng is done upside down, with a special square plate placed in front of the worker, with a wooden square protruding from each end of the square plate.
The length of the wooden square is the same as the width of the pool surface. Two short wooden squares are nailed to the top of the wooden square. The length of these two short wooden squares is generally six inches, which is the row spacing.
This thing is called a zhizi in ginseng industry jargon, and it is specially used to measure line spacing.
Press hard on the surface of the pool every time to leave a mark. When dragging, follow the mark, and you can accurately grasp the line spacing, so that one side of the pool will not be wider and the other will be narrower.
The main function of the square plate on the rice dumpling is to hold the ginseng seeds.
In this way, the two people were planting ginseng while dragging the system backwards. They could plant about fifteen to twenty feet in one day.
Of course, there are also those who work quickly. In Xu Shiyan's previous life, a couple could lose fifty feet in one day.
At present, that is impossible. The production team is so aggressive that no one is willing to do that.