Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 67 How to grow dates on the mountain

"Why did you buy so many saplings?"

"Plant it, look at the angular and angular places all over the mountains and plains. No one is using them anyway. If we plant something, we can still get a harvest."

"It can work. If it can work, why aren't there other races?"

Li Xiangqin still knows how to farm, but when it comes to tending fruit trees, she is a complete layman.

Her only connection with the fruit trees is eating their fruits.

That is fruit.

"Other people don't know it because they don't understand."

Li Muyang parked the car at the door, turned around and looked at the stepped mountains, pointed to the bottom layer and said, "Look at the hills at the foot of the mountains. Are there only weeds and shrubs now?"

"Yes, those places can't hold water. How can we grow food? I'm afraid it will be difficult to grow corn and sorghum."

"Yes, because of the terrain, those locations are dry all year round, and the soil may be washed away by heavy rains at any time, so they are not suitable for growing crops. But..."

Li Muyang pointed to the jujube seedlings in the car and said with longing and excitement, "If we plant all the jujube trees along the edge, wouldn't this problem just be solved?"

"Why?"

"Jujube trees are very resistant to drought and have very low water requirements. Even if the water source is too sufficient, the dates produced by the jujube trees will be tasteless. Besides, if trees are planted along the edges, wouldn't it just stabilize the soil? The trees Once the roots sink in, the soil will hold tightly and won’t be lost in large areas.”

Li Muyang said soil erosion is a fatal problem in the Loess Plateau.

Many people who have seen the Yellow River lament why there is so much sediment in the Yellow River.

In fact, a large part of it comes from the soil of the Loess Plateau.

That’s why the Yellow River is called the Yellow River.

The reason why the Loess Plateau is a ravine is not formed naturally. Instead, the ravines will become deeper and deeper after repeated erosion by floods. The soil and sediment after erosion will gather in a slightly higher place on the terrain, and gradually become deeper and deeper. A small sandbar will form.

Many cities and regions came from this.

The entire Guoziling, including all the trees in Xishan, was originally designed to avoid soil erosion, not soil desertification.

Soil desertification is only concentrated in the northwestern part of Gansu, and the biggest problem in the east is loss.

When the tree's roots penetrate deep into the soil, they can form a stable network, gathering the surrounding water around the root system, and gradually forming a stable fixed state with the surrounding soil.

One tree can fix a small area, but thousands or even millions of trees gathered together can fix an entire mountain or even an entire mountain range.

After years of afforestation, the water and soil erosion situation on the Loess Plateau has been significantly improved in later generations. The water in the Yellow River is relatively clear and the sediment content has steadily declined.

Li Muyang is very familiar with all places on Guozi Ling.

He had thought of some ideas in his previous life, but at that time he was relatively weak and did not have the money or time to implement them.

Now that his temperament has become cheerful, his execution ability has increased, and he has some strength, naturally nothing can stop him from carrying out his grand plans.

In his heart, he had already embraced the entire fruit green in his arms.

Let’s start with these three hundred acres of Peach Mountain.

After the peach orchard is stable, we can study apples, pears, and cherries.

Peaches, apples and pears are the most common fruits and can be widely used in food industry, such as canning, juice, etc.

Therefore, these three fruits are most suitable for large-scale development and are also suitable as starting fruits.

As for cherries, plums, apricots and other fruits, he needs to slowly cultivate excellent varieties. The current mountain cherries and mountain apricots are too sour, and ordinary outsiders are not used to eating them, and they are not suitable for large-scale promotion.

As for mountain plums, they are too astringent. Unless they are particularly ripe for a short period of time, one's tongue will be so astringent that it will be unable to turn when one takes a bite.

These fruits require continuous grafting to finally develop the right taste.

Li Muyang has a lot of grafting experience and successful cases.Others need to try grafting step by step, and then slowly select the best products, but he grafts with purpose, removes those that are inefficient, and can get results quickly.

The mountains are inherently rich in wealth.

People in the mountains rely on the mountains to feed themselves.

People in Yangziling can rely on the mountains to hunt, people in Yaowangling can plant and collect herbal medicine, and people in Guoziling can develop the fruit industry, which is a good choice.

Li Muyang believes that hard work can make up for weakness. As long as he manages and develops well, he will be able to achieve outstanding results.

Many dreams that I could only think about in my past life will come true in this life.

"Brother, I have a question."

"Ask."

"We only have a small road to Taoshan now. If you plant jujube trees on the ridge, how will the dates come down from the ridge? Do you need someone to carry baskets of them?"

Li Muyang smiled and said, "How much can you carry? Of course not."

"Then what do you do? Even if you are full of dates, you can't transport them out. Why don't they all rot on the tree?"

"You will know when the time comes. I will have my own way."

Li Muyang decided not to say anything for the time being.

Mainly because of this problem, it was difficult for him to explain.

If she had been to a mature jujube base, Li Xiangqin would not have asked this question.

Because jujube is a fruit that is not the same as ordinary fruits.

Taking apples as an example, if the apples in an orchard want to be sold for real money and have a good harvest, it will be very troublesome.

From pollination of flowers, spraying, removal of excess flowers, removal of excess fruit, bagging, fertilizing, all the way to final ripening, every step requires careful attention.

If even one link is wrong, the fruit-bearing effect may be very poor.

In this way, even after ripening, people still have to pick the apples from the tree one by one.

Yes, they need to be taken off one by one.

Apples are very easy to be bruised. As long as there is a very small bump, the apple will rot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Original apples are very easy to rot.

The apples bought in supermarkets in later generations, which do not rot even when left to dry, have undergone a series of preservative treatments.

The perishability of apples makes apple processing very difficult and requires a lot of manual work.

Therefore, the biggest cost of apples is not that the trees are difficult to care for, but that the labor required to do the work is getting more and more expensive, causing the price of apples to rise.

In the early years, red Fuji, which is abundant in Shaanxi and Gansu, cost a few yuan to buy a big bag in my hometown. But after many years, a few yuan may only buy one or two apples.

Soaring prices themselves are one reason.

The bigger reason is that an apple goes through many processes from flowering to being delivered to the fruit seller, and each process requires huge labor costs.

Don’t underestimate the fact that people in each link don’t seem to get much money. The more links there are, the more money they spend.

The same goes for peaches and pears.

However, dates are not.

Jujube is a very special fruit.

(End of this chapter)