Alpine Orchard

Chapter 62 Technical Communication

Come home at night.

My mother really did it, staring at Ye Mo and asking him to call...

Ye Mo held the mobile phone, hesitated, and called the phone anyway.

Ye Mo thought he wouldn't be nervous at first, but when he held the phone, he felt uneasy, and the phone connected: "Hello?"

"what?"

"Have you eaten yet?" Ye Mo said.

Lin Xiaomian said in a sweet voice, "I just had dinner, how about you?"

"Me too."

"Oh."

Ye Mo didn't know what to say, his mind went blank all of a sudden: "What, what are you doing?"

"Feed the crayfish."

"crayfish?"

"Well, feed the crayfish." Lin Xiaomian said, "What about you?"

"Walk outside." Ye Mo said: "I also just had dinner, and I took a walk outside to digest. Do you raise crayfish at home?"

"Ah."

"How many crayfish were raised."

"More than four acres, rice field crayfish."

"What do lobsters eat?"

"feed."

"How much can one acre produce if you raise lobsters in rice fields?"

"I don't know. I raised lobsters in the rice fields in the first year. It used to be a special shrimp pond. This year, rice was planted, and rice and shrimps were mixed together." Lin Xiaomian's voice today was very soft.

"The current crayfish, can I eat it?" Ye Mo asked.He couldn't find another topic, so he could only chat awkwardly.

"It's edible. But the crayfish are small now and don't have much meat. The crayfish will be fatter in August..."

"Your feet don't hurt anymore, do they?"

"The swelling has subsided, and the pain is gone." Lin Xiaomian said.It still hurts when I walk, but it won't get better so quickly.

I just chatted about various topics for half an hour, got home, took a shower...and went to sleep.

The next day, I had breakfast.

"Uncle, Second Uncle... Uncle Liu, Uncle Qian..." Eleven people came to help today. 11 males, 7 females...

There are also villagers who come to collect firewood.

Before, it was said that the water, electricity, and three links in Changzhu Village.

There are running water pipes, but only for irrigation purposes, not for drinking directly.

Most of the households in Changzhu Village have dug wells.Mostly two or three households have one well, and if they live in a remote place, each household has one well.

Electricity is connected to every household.

As for gas, there are natural gas pipes in the village, but not every household has installed natural gas.

Many local families do not use natural gas, but use wood-fired stoves and mobile stoves at home.

In Changzhu Village, many people work at home.Everyone moves around a lot...

Every household has a mobile stove with a pot on it.That kind of movable stove can be said to be found in every household here...

Neighbors move frequently, and many people can often be seen gathering around the mobile stove for dinner.

Ye Mo cut down the shrubs here, as well as the hundreds of acres of mango trees before, and the firewood was chopped back by the villagers to make firewood.

Ye Mo's parents also packed some firewood for the family.

Roasting chicken, stewing meat, and even stir-frying in a firewood pot is better than cooking with natural gas.

In one morning, dozens of acres of land were cleaned up.

Ye Ran went out to buy vegetables after ten o'clock, and then went home to cook.

At noon, everyone sits together and eats.

"Ye Mo, how much does it cost per mu for the sprinkler irrigation system?" Yun Xiuzhi asked.

"More than 1 yuan per mu." Ye Mo said.

"Did you buy the water pipes and nozzles online?" Niu Yougui asked.

"Well. Buying water pipes and sprinklers online, and then erecting them yourself, doesn't count as labor... It costs about 1 yuan per mu."

"My family has a 9-acre pomegranate garden on a big hillside. I don't know if I can get this irrigation system." Niu Yougui said.

"of course can."

Papa Ye poured them beer and said, "Drip irrigation is the best way to irrigate large fruit trees. Drip irrigation saves water, and the effect is better than sprinkler irrigation. If you want to irrigate orchards, you'd better use drip irrigation."

The biggest benefit of using drip irrigation is saving water.

Although the irrigation water for orchards here is cheap, 1 ton of water costs 7 cents.But if every household uses sprinkler irrigation, the water in Niujiaoling Reservoir will definitely not be enough.

The water from Niujiaoling Reservoir irrigates an area of ​​about [-] mu.

Then, from the perspective of irrigation, the effect of drip irrigation is better, and it can also be used for water and fertilizer management.

Dad Ye talked about the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation: "The area of ​​Ye Mo's sprinkler irrigation is only five or six hundred acres. The sprinkler irrigation here is mainly used to raise grass. After that, all the more than 1000 acres will be used drip irrigation..."

"We heard that the orchard planting grass is not good, and you are still specially raising grass here?" Qian Peng asked doubts.

"Grass planting in orchards has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. For example, Yumin Orchard, where the land is relatively flat, without steep slopes, is convenient for irrigation and is full of small fruit trees, so there is no need to plant grass specially. Weeding in the orchard. If you plant grass, the grass will take away the nutrients of the fruit trees... But when the fruit trees grow up, the diameter of the fruit trees is about 10 centimeters, and you can also plant grass."

Ye Mo's father continued: "But for orchards on hillsides, it's better to plant grass. For example, the orchards on the back hills of your side have to plant grass. Planting grass protects slopes, prevents soil erosion, and can also lock soil moisture and reduce irrigation times. The grass planted in hillside orchards is mainly white clover and alfalfa, which can not only lock water and prevent soil erosion, but also increase soil fertility to a certain extent."

Qian Peng said with a smile: "We have planted grass on the hillside before, but the grass grew so well that it felt like we had eaten a lot of fertilizer... Then we saw that other orchards were weeding, so we also planted those grasses. The grass was killed."

"In Dongmen Town, the relatively flat orchards usually don't need to plant grass. But in the orchards on the hillside, the technicians asked us to plant grass in the orchard... What I just said was also told by the previous technicians." Ye Dad said, "Is there no technical station in the area?"

"There is a technical station in the town, which has trained us before. But I just learned some superficial knowledge, and I didn't go to the countryside to guide technicians."

"Whether fruit trees can produce high yield depends on management. How to fertilize, how to prune branches... Pruning fruit tree branches is really a technical job. A mango tree, if the tree shape is correct, the yield will be much higher "Papa Ye visited their mango orchard before and found many problems.

The local mango production is low, not without reason.

After eating, we continued to chat for a while, and then we were going back to rest.

Aunt Yun pulled Ye Mo aside, and whispered, "Have you called Xiao Mian?"

"Hit."

"How do you feel about Xiao Mian?" Aunt Yun, as someone who has experienced it, spoke very directly.

"It's fine. It's just..."

Aunt Yun smiled and said, "Little girl, sometimes you can say what you mean by duplicity. Keep in touch, and ask out to play when you have time, and you'll get to know each other gradually."

"Hey, okay." Ye Mo nodded with a smile.

"You're a big man, take the initiative." Aunt Yun pursed her lips and said with a smile.

"Yes. Thank you, Aunt Yun..."

(End of this chapter)