The grass in the pasture area of the manor has turned yellow.
At dawn, Chen Mo woke up the glutinous rice dumplings sleeping on the bedside by chirping, got up, washed briefly, and left the villa for a morning jog...
The glutinous rice dumplings also spread their wings and flew, playing around Chen Mo for a while before flying towards the forest in the distance.
Become a happy old man from today on, chasing wind and freedom.
Driving the tractor, along the dirt road of the pasture, Chen Mo began to plow the land deeply.
In the summer in Napa Valley, even the lawn in your own yard can easily turn brown without artificial irrigation.
Yesterday, I adjusted the parameters of the tractor. After pressing a few buttons, the tractor began to work at a constant speed. Chen Mo closed the door tightly, took out his mobile phone, clicked on the vague player, and then turned on Bluetooth...
There is a high-end audio system in the tractor cockpit, and the first song played is: The vast horizon is my love, and the flowers are blooming at the foot of the rolling green mountains...
Loose soil, level the land, and bury fertilizer, all these tasks are completed at once.
It is good to prepare the land for planting fruit trees and provide enough fertilizer, so that the progress of the work is a little slow.
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Chen Mo worked alone on 150 acres of flat land and the remaining hills for more than a month.
The glass greenhouse has been built a long time ago and has been delivered to Chen Mo, and the "Private Manor No Entry" sign has been hung up again at the gate of River Valley Manor.
In the space, Chen Mo frowned as he looked at the morel culture tank he made, wondering what went wrong.
Chen Mo collected the strains made from the spores of morels in space, and then made a culture medium that completely imitated the growth environment of wild morels. It has been almost a year in this space... It is now May in the space, and there are a lot of morels.
The growing season has just passed, and there are no signs of mushrooms growing in the culture tank.
"A problem with strains?"
"There is nothing wrong with collecting bacterial strains."
In order to grow morels in the space, Chen Mo went to a mushroom farm in the Napa Mountains to learn how to prepare strains...
You can’t go wrong with the strains.
The problem lies in the culture material?
For ordinary morels, the culture material is made by moistening sawdust from poplar, oak, fruit trees and other trees with water and then sterilizing it at high temperature.
The morels in space only look similar to the morels outside, but they are definitely two varieties. They have similar appearance, different sizes, and even different tastes...
The stipe of morel is hollow, the fruiting body is small, the length is 4-6cm long, and the width is 4-6cm. The stipe is white, 5-7cm long, 2-2.5cm wide, with a shallow longitudinal groove at the base.
Slightly enlarged.
The morels in the space are solid. The fruiting body is large, and the length is basically more than 20 centimeters. The white stalk is more than 13 centimeters long, thick and large, translucent, smooth like winter, and basically slightly smaller.
Basically, it is similar to the cap, with many pits formed on the surface, like a sheep's belly, and light yellowish brown.
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It must be a problem with the culture material.
Compared with artificially cultivated gallinophilia, termite nests must be added.
There must be something that I have overlooked.
Thinking of this, Chen Mo picked up the hoe and went into the deep forest. He came to the pile of soil where the giant morels had been found before and started digging... However, nothing was dug out.
"Tweet..." The glutinous rice dumplings were brought into space by Chen Mo. They went out to wander for a while and then flew back to Chen Mo's shoulders, combing their feathers.
The most delicious mushroom in space is the morel.
Then there are matsutake mushrooms, gallinopsis mushrooms...these mushrooms are almost the same as the wild mushrooms outside, both in size and taste.
Only the giant morel is the most special.
Is it really impossible to cultivate morels?
Chen Mo buried the hole in depression. The glutinous rice dumplings suddenly flew down from Chen Mo's shoulders, pecked at a piece of blackened amber honeycomb on the ground, and ate a small piece.
"You can't eat the honeycomb." Chen Mo grabbed the little guy, put it on his shoulders, and continued deep into the forest.
Morels, like gallinobacteria, have specific growth characteristics. Just like the place dug just now, Chen Mo saw morels here 'last year' and picked them up again this year. Even in 'one year',
Chen Mo picked up giant morels several times in that place...
The growth of gallinophilia cannot be separated from termite nests, and the growth of morels should also require certain things...but it is definitely not termite nests.
Chen Mo went to several other morel growth spots and dug out a honeycomb buried in the soil from one of them...
Depend on!
honeycomb……
Bee nests were found around the two large morel growth points. Chen Mo went to other spots to check and found that there were all honeycombs. Some of the honeycombs were still hanging on the trees, and some of the honeycombs had fallen to the ground.
These hives are not big. The largest hive is only as big as a soup bowl, and the smaller hives are no bigger than a palm. There are very few hives in the woods, and most of the bees in the space live in a place where Chen Mo least wants to go...
In September of space time, Chen Mo finally used the honeycomb to cultivate the big boletus, and the outside time was only about ten days.
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There were many bees in the space, as well as hives and abandoned hives. But they were all concentrated in a place named ‘Wild Bee Valley’ by Chen Mo. That was the place Chen Mo was least willing to enter.
Wild Bee Valley is a valley downstream of space. Chen Mo wanted to eat honey before, but the fierce bees drove him out before he could go in... After that, he tried several times, using smoke and wearing thick rain, but he failed.
This is the most dangerous and only dangerous place in space.
In order to cultivate morels in large quantities, Chen Mo had to venture into the valley, wearing a thick firefighting suit and two raincoats...
It is a quiet valley, and after entering, you can only hear the buzzing sound of bees waving their wings.
At the end of September in space time, the temperature is similar to April, but much drier. But you can still see big boletus mushrooms everywhere in the valley...
Before he even stepped into the valley, swarms of buzzing bees rushed towards Chen Mo, extending their long poisonous needles from behind to attack Chen Mo.
"Depend on……"
Chen Mo carried the bamboo pole on his back and ran inside, patting himself...
Wearing several layers of thick Western clothes, he was still stung at the knees, as if the tip of a needle had penetrated into the bone. Chen Mo grinned in pain and ran to the edge of the cliff to put the honeycomb that had fallen to the ground into his back basket. It was full.
Those who dare to stay run out of the valley...
The best way to anger a bee is to leave the space quickly, but never leave from the valley.
If you leave the space from the valley, you will still be in the valley next time and will be chased by bees again...
Black bees were flying overhead, and Chen Mo ran away desperately. Until he was far away from the valley, the bees were still chasing after him, and Chen Mo quickly left the space...
In the entire space, more than 99% of the bees are concentrated in the valley, and the number is huge...
Appearing in the living room of the villa, Chen Mo put down his backpack and felt that the stung knee had lost all feeling. There was no redness or swelling, just pain. The pain was so painful that he lost consciousness and was numb...
Chen Mo was bitten by a bee last year and the pain lasted for less than half a month.
Take off your clothes, you will see the dense holes on it, as well as the stings on the back of the bee's tail.
Called a bee, its size is not much smaller than that of a wasp, and its tail stinger is longer... There are several bee species in the bee colony, and the longest tail stinger is almost 4 centimeters.