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Chapter 43
"Divide into two teams. The front ones will evacuate the sheds by strings, while the ones in the back will cut the ginseng leaves with a sickle, and then start to pick up the ginseng."

Xu Shixiang was the captain of the sideline job, so of course he was the leader of the job, and when he came to Shendichi Chuan'er, he arranged how to do today's work.

Chichuaner is also a special term for ginseng, which means a large soil ridge five or six feet wide.

Due to the shape of the mountain, the terrain, and the direction of the pool, the length of the pool varies.Forty or fifty feet more, twenty or thirty feet less.

The surface of the ridge is called Chimianzi, and the ditch between two ridges is called Madao.

The surface of the pool should be more than one foot higher than the horse track to facilitate drainage.

Ginseng likes light but is afraid of light, likes water but is afraid of water, so every soil ridge must be covered with a ginseng shed.

Only by blocking most of the sun and rain can the growth of ginseng be guaranteed and it will not rot.

The current ginseng sheds are all single-sided slopes, and the length is slightly wider than the surface of the pool. The rainwater flows into the horse trail along the ginseng sheds.

Later, when the special plastic film for ginseng ground comes out, the ginseng shed will evolve into an arched shape, with water flowing on both sides, which is more convenient.

To get ginseng, the ginseng shed must be removed first. The ginseng shed is nailed up with wooden boards. The boards can be reused, so naturally they cannot be damaged at will.

In the past, if someone was poor and had no living materials after death, a coffin would be nailed with a mallet and board.

The mallet board refers to the wooden board covered with ginseng.

The big guys all came with tools, so a few people came forward with tools such as hammers and pliers.

First remove the grass or linoleum on it, then lift the boards and stack them aside.

Behind, someone took a sickle, cut off the ginseng stems about ten centimeters from the ground, and gathered them together from the beginning to the end.

After cutting the ginseng leaves, replace the sickle with a trident, and start digging the soil according to the traces of the remaining stalks.

When planting ginseng, trenches are dug and planted according to a certain row spacing, so to grow ginseng, only need to place three teeth according to the distance of each row, so as not to damage the ginseng in the ground.

Three-toothed rakes, unlike rakes, only have three finger-thick teeth. The teeth are about eight inches long, and the distance between each tooth is two or three inches. The lower end is pointed.

The three-toothed son dug into the ground, then lifted it up, and even the ginseng and soil were dug up.

Then I kicked and shook it lightly with my feet, and most of the soil was shaken off, and then moved back and put it behind me.

Follow the ginseng pickers to pick up the ginseng in the soil, shake off the remaining soil, and put it into a sack.

This job is easy to say, but it is actually very tiring.

The three teeth are not light, and when you swing your head, your shoulders are sore and painful.

Moreover, the person holding the three-tooth must be precise every time, so as not to hurt the ginseng in the soil, so the energy must be concentrated, and it will be very tired after a long time.

As for those who picked up ginseng later, it was not easy. They had to kneel in the ground and sort out the ginseng from the soil bit by bit.

One planed and the other picked up, and the two made a frame.

Raising ginseng is a delicate job, and it should not be too rough, so it is not fast.

A pair of racks can be up to ten feet a day at most, and if it is too fast, it is easy to scratch the ginseng, or drop the ginseng and bury it in the soil.

Xu Shiyan has been growing ginseng all his life, so he is very familiar with it.

The three-toothed tool is absolutely handy in his hands, every time he digs out two or three ginseng plants, it won't hurt the ginseng at all.

It was Zhao Jianshe, the second son of the Zhao family, who followed to pick up ginseng.

The two cooperated very well, digging out all the ginseng in the soil and picking it up, not a single ginseng whisker was left behind.

"Third brother, this mallet is pretty good this year. How big do you think it is? I think the one just now can be worth three taels."

Zhao Jianshe looked at Bai Shengsheng's chubby ginseng in his hand and was very happy.

"Well, this year's production should be pretty good.

In fact, our team is still not good enough to serve the mallet. If you do it well, it's like playing with a stick. "

Xu Shiyan swung his three-toothed tooth, chatting with Zhao Jianshe while working.

"Ah? 25 six catties? Can't you?

Last year, our team's ginseng land production was pretty good, and at the end of the calculation, it was only seventeen catties per ten feet.

More than twenty catties, so can't they all be two or three two? "

Zhao Jianshe is young and has never heard that a foot of ginseng can grow more than [-] catties, so his eyes widened.

Xu Shiyan smiled, "Did you know that sticks can actually be used for fat?
In summer, bean cakes are used to fertilize, and when planting sticks in autumn, they are used as base fertilizer. The yield of sticks can be increased a lot, and the production is also under pressure. "Xu Shiyan remembered his experience of growing ginseng in his previous life.

"Use base fertilizer when planting sticks, don't need top-dressing in the year of new planting, and use bean cake water for top-dressing in the summer of the year of freezing.

In the third year of making goods, one foot can increase production by at least six or seven catties. "

Ginseng is planted in late autumn every year. It is called new planting in the new year, freezing in the second year, and making goods in the third year.

Ginseng does not like common manure. If pig manure and chicken manure and other fertilizers are applied to the ginseng field, it will be burned to death directly.

The only fertilizers that can be applied to ginseng are bean cakes and deer dung.It is difficult to get a lot of deer dung, and there may be a way to do it with bean cakes.

The bean cake is crushed and fermented with water. Whether it is fermented bean cake powder or bean cake water, it can be used to fertilize ginseng, which can increase production and income.

Zhao Jianshe was dumbfounded. He had never heard that ginseng could be fertilized before. They were all planted in the ground and let it grow by itself.

"Third brother, is it true or not? Then if our team also top-dresses the sticks, won't the production be higher?"

"Are you thinking well? Where can we get so many bean cakes?" Xu Shiyan shook his head.

Nowadays, most people still can’t get enough to eat. Those soybeans in the team don’t know if they are enough to turn in the tasks. How can there be bean cakes for top dressing?
When Zhao Jianshe heard this, his face was full of frustration, "Then, isn't that what you said for nothing?"

I thought there was really a way to increase the production of sticks, but it was useless to make trouble for a long time.

"There is also a way, the key is that your father doesn't know whether to listen or not." Xu Shiyan smiled and dug out a few ginseng trees, and gave them back.

"Have you seen the ginseng land that has been planted this year? It's five hundred feet long, so it's about ten mu, right?
In the spring of next year, all soybeans will be planted. This is not arable land, but will be controlled by our village.At that time, can't bean cakes be used for top dressing? "

As long as you are willing to use your brain to think, there will always be a way, it depends on whether Zhao Dahai dares or not.

The growing conditions of ginseng are harsh, and the old woodland must be used, and the soil must be turned over after cutting down the trees for planting.It can be said that the forest is very destructive.

However, for the sake of economic development, ginseng has to be planted again, so what is adopted at present is to cut down the forest to plant ginseng, and return the ginseng to the forest after the ginseng.

The land where ginseng has been planted is exhausted. In the second year after ginseng is planted, saplings will be planted in the ground. After many years, it will grow into a forest.

The newly planted saplings are very small and do not actually affect the growth of the farmer, so we can make a fuss about it.

In Xu Shiyan's previous life, he did this in many places.

The ginseng soil after ginseng is contracted out to plant a crop of soybeans or potatoes.

The soil where ginseng has been planted is greatly reduced in fertility, and other crops cannot be grown, but soybeans or potatoes grow very well.

Especially potatoes, which grow much larger than those in the vegetable garden, have a particularly high yield.

(End of this chapter)