When I woke up the next day, the sky cleared up and the rain-washed sky was exceptionally blue, as if I was back in Montana...
The sky is extremely high and broad.
The front yard of the house is made of permeable slate, and the lawn has not been built for a long time. There are crystal drops of water on the tips of the green grass blades. Birds that have been quiet all night in the heavy rain have come out one after another, on the treetops and in the vineyards.
...and kept chirping.
Winters in Montana are lifeless, while winters in California are vibrant.
Chen Mo woke up early, and his genius was hazy. He went into the kitchen and cleaned the casserole... and started making radish stewed beef.
Beef stew with white radish is a perfect match.
Selected beef brisket, crispy white radish, rice washed and cooked... Chen Mo put on a pair of sneakers and went out for a walk.
The cold and humid air blows in the face, which is really refreshing. Chen Ouha takes a breath of white air, the birds chirp along the road, and the two dogs beside him are playing wildly...
It rained heavily overnight, and water accumulated in the potholes in the fields.
Chen Mo walked around the vineyard, picked a place with a lot of grass, went down to the field and peeled off the film...
Vegetables bought by Chen Mo were planted in the film, and Chinese cabbage was planted in the first box of film.
The cabbage in the film in the shed can be harvested in ten or twenty days. It is lush and very tender. Chen Mo pulled a small handful, washed it in the ditch, took out the phone and called Chen Chen...
After seven o'clock, Chen Chen drove over for dinner. Chen Mo picked up the beef and radish, and added the cabbage to the stew...
Give Ahli a big bowl of beef first. The expectant mother needs nutritional supplements.
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Winters in Southern California are not cold.
A heavy rain followed by bright sunshine. The alfalfa planted in the pasture began to grow wildly after absorbing the water, and the sky lifted up...
Bright has hired several recent graduates from the University of California, Davis, to join the ranch and engage in organic fertilizer fermentation and livestock feed preparation. As for Bright, he is busy introducing breeding sheep, Dorper sheep.
Chen Mo spends his leisurely days in the pasture, building the lawn and garden at home. When he has nothing to do, he goes into the space to prune the branches of vines... The vines grow slowly and generally do not need to be pruned. It's just that the space speed is too fast and you don't pay attention.
Just one year...
"Is this Mr. Chen Mo?"
Chen Mo was checking the growth of grapevines in a small valley when a phone call came over.
"yes."
"Hello, this is FedEx. Please sign for your express delivery."
"Okay, where are you?"
"In front of... the stone monument at Riverdale Ranch."
Chen Mo hung up the phone and called Chen Chen and asked him to bring the courier into the villa...
Some of the grapevines in the small valley have begun to lose their leaves. The rest are more or less affected. Only the oldest trees are least affected by transplantation.
There are still small white flowers on the tree grapes that are more than ten years old, but there are just a few fewer than before. The fruits on the branches and trunks have not fallen much...
When they were transplanted, these trees were covered with fruits, ripe, green, and flowery, all on the same tree. You can pick fruits, quite a few... You should be able to harvest four to five hundred pounds in one picking.
Chen Mo picked a purple-black grape and threw it into his mouth before leaving the orchard.
Back at the villa, two express trucks were parked in the yard, and Chen Chen was helping to receive the things...
"Brother, why did you buy so many flower pots?"
There are two entire carts of flower pots, some large and some small, with as many as a dozen shapes.
"Buy it back and plant bonsai." Chen Mo checked the goods, checked the list and signed the express delivery form: "When will boss Zhang from China come over?"
"I'm in San Francisco and they said the cargo ship was delayed and it would be at night."
Boss Zhang is the boss of the Southern Tree Grape Breeding Base. What he sent this time were ordinary seedlings. The order of more than 200,000 yuan was finalized with Boss Zhang online. The rest of the order was only a verbal agreement. He came here this time.
Responsible for handing over the goods, secondly guiding the planting of vines, and thirdly... finalizing the subsequent contract worth more than one million yuan.
The total contract is almost 2.1 million US dollars, which is more than 10 million yuan when converted into RMB. It is a huge contract for his nursery base.
Boss Zhang arrived in San Francisco after New Year's Day and stayed in San Francisco. He asked several times to meet Chen Mo, but Chen Mo ignored him.
Chen Mo was not aloof, nor was he putting on airs, he just felt that it was unnecessary and not like meeting people.
1,000 acres of pasture have been planted in the valley area, and there are 600 acres of land left. Chen Mo is planning to plant fruit trees, tree grapes, miracle fruits, figs, cherries, and drought-resistant grape rootstocks to prepare for the future development of mountain vineyards. Before that,
I want to grow lotus mist, but I found that it is not valuable in North America. The taste... I don’t know if I bought a fake. It has no taste. It is neither sweet nor sour. It is quite watery and has a crunchy texture. It is not very delicious.
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Fig seedlings and cherry seedlings can be purchased in California, and the prices are quite cheap.
Chen Mo plans to set up a breeding base for tree grapes and plant them on a large scale in pastures. Miracle fruit seedlings are similar to tree grape seedlings, and the price is much cheaper. The same ones are difficult to buy, and Boss Zhang’s nursery happens to have...
"Go to San Francisco and talk to Boss Zhang..."
"Okay, should I go now?"
"Um."
Chen Chen was about to leave, but Chen Mo stopped him: "Go to the ranch and find someone to accompany you and act as your assistant. It's just a handover, there is no need to establish friendship... Give the other person a strong attitude first, ok
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"I know." Chen Chen smiled bitterly. Chen Chen learned a lot after coming to the United States. If Chen Mo wanted to give the other party a strong attitude, he would probably have to purchase a large amount from the other party... Showing a strong attitude would make the other party not want to
Dare to make random quotations. Bright used the same tactics when purchasing Dorper sheep outside.
Watching Chen Chen leave, Chen Mo put three large flower pots with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a height of 1.25 meters into the space, and put more than twenty smaller flower pots into the space. The other flower pots were moved into the warehouse.
There are more than two hundred in total.
In the space, there are gloomy skies, green hills, green plains, creeks, and beautiful long-tailed birds calling in the woods, with clear and sweet sounds.
There are a few old trees left in the tree garden, and the others are saplings less than seven years old. There are almost tens of thousands of them.
Chen Mo feels that there is some unknown energy in the space, so that the plants in the space are full of vitality, and the plants transplanted from outside are especially easy to survive.
In the vine forest, bees were buzzing and busy gathering honey, and there were fluttering butterflies...
The bees in the space are not big, but they are very fierce.
Chen Mo used to see honey in the mountains and wanted to pick it, but the bees drove them out of the space... Now he is scared when he sees these bees, and he doesn't dare to mess with them at all.
Not only are the bees in the space difficult to deal with, there are also several kinds of birds in the space, which are also very powerful. The ones that are most easy to bully are the white-striped fish in the creek. The white-striped fish in the space are larger, usually about 10 centimeters, and there are
The larger ones can grow to 20 to 30 centimeters long, have fewer thorns, and have fresh and tender meat, which is most suitable for making soup.
Move the large flowerpot to the open space of the tree grapes, fill it with mud, take out the cherry seeds ordered online, plant four-season oranges, and fig seedlings, plant them in the flowerpot, cover them with a thin layer of soil, and water them.
some water...
The quality of fruit trees cultivated in the space is higher. When these trees grow up in the pots, cut off the branches for grafting and see if you can cultivate better varieties.