happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 72 Spring Ploughing

By mid-April, food and vegetables will start to be planted.

With Shen Yunfang's small body now, it is definitely not possible to plant these lands, but fortunately, she has self-knowledge and invited people in advance.

The Wang family also has their own plots of land, which are all cultivated in the same solar term, so Dashuan and his wife can only work separately.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law was faster than Dashuan in growing vegetables, so sooner or later, Dashuan's wife would be given to Shen Yunfang, and Dashuan would go to plant his own land.

Dashuan took the time to start building adobe, preparing to build a sheep pen and pig pen for Shen Yunfang in the backyard. He was the only one to do it. The project was very slow, but it was expected to be completed before summer.

Of course, Shen Yunfang herself couldn't be idle. Although she was not on the same level as Dashuan's daughter-in-law's quickness in growing vegetables, she still insisted on working together.Is the flame high when everyone gathers firewood?

Shen Yunfang and Dashuan's daughter-in-law first planted the private plot. This year, she plans to interplant corn with soybeans and sweet potatoes, so as to not only fertilize the land but also increase production.

When planting, there are two ridges of corn, two ridges of soybeans, two ridges of corn, and two ridges of sweet potatoes, and the two ridges of corn are planted in cycles.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law wondered why it was so troublesome to grow the land.

Of course, Shen Yunfang can't say that this is science, and that this kind of planting can increase production. She can only say that she likes this kind of planting, it looks good, and she is self-willed.

After the private plot was planted, the two moved to the backyard of her house.

The backyard of Shen Yunfang's house is huge, bigger than her own land, with a total of [-] ridges. She plans to set aside [-] ridges to grow grain, and the rest is enough for her to grow vegetables.

She herself had limited types of seeds, so she went to Aunt Wang's shop and planted all the seeds she could find.

There are beans, eggplant, persimmon, pepper, cucumber, cowpea, loofah and so on.There is also a circle of melons planted on the root of the courtyard wall.

She didn't eat the melons she planted last year, but they can also be used to feed pigs, so she is not afraid of too much, and she has grown a lot today.

Because she wants to make some chili sauce and pickles in autumn, she grows a lot of chili peppers.

For seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic, she also specially opened a small piece for special planting.

The remaining fourteen ridges are the same as those planted in the private plot.

Later, when she saw that Wang’s family had also planted Maoka, she also greedily asked for one. There was no place to plant them in the yard, so she pushed her idea outside the wall. She planted two rows of Maoya outside the yard, close to the courtyard wall. , two rows are interspersed, and it will look pretty when it blooms in the future.

These are all done in the morning and evening when she is not at work, and she is not idle when she is at work.

Every morning when she goes to work, she goes to the production team to drive the sheep, and then leads the flock to the back of her house. She opens a gate in the backyard, and from here she takes her ten lambs into the mountain from behind. .

She climbed for two hours to the hillside that she opened up wasteland, herding sheep and grazing by herself, and then she started to work.

She opened up wasteland for more than half a month, but she didn't produce much. There were only six or seven plots of land, and she planted sweet potatoes.

Later, when she saw someone planting watermelon and cantaloupe, she also bought some seeds, found a Gala in the backyard and planted two of each, and let her plant the rest here, which is her secret base alone.

Later, Shen Yunfang accidentally discovered that the sweet potatoes used for raising seedlings were connected to the original nest, and sweet potato seedlings grew again. She had already pulled out the original seedlings and planted them in the ground, okay?

After asking Dashuan's wife, I found out that as long as the place is not moved, the sweet potato seedlings can still grow a second crop, and the second crop of sweet potato seedlings can still be planted just like the first crop of sweet potato seedlings.

The remaining sweet potatoes used for raising seedlings can still be eaten, but they are no longer noodles, and the taste is not good, but it is still good to feed pigs.

Shen Yunfang sighed in her heart, everything in life is full of knowledge.

It would be a waste to keep the second crop of sweet potato seedlings like this, so Shen Yunfang wondered where else to plant some.

Later, she really found a place to plant.

The road from the backyard of her house to the mountain is very difficult. She walked the sheep every day these days and found that the wild vegetables in this place are very lush, such as ant vegetables, gray vegetables, bitter hemp vegetables, and shepherd's purse.

And these are good materials for feeding pigs.

Shen Yunfang took a small shovel to dig when she was free, and dug very deep, basically digging out the roots, and then planted sweet potato seedlings in the hole.

This place is full of people, and the grass is thick. When the grass grows, if you don't look carefully, you won't be able to find the sweet potato seedlings hidden in the grass.

In this way, with the help of Dashuan's daughter-in-law, Shen Yunfang finally planted all the land in mid-May, and the busy spring plowing finally came to an end.

"Yo, girl Yunfang is really capable, she can water the fields by herself."

It was an uncle of Shen Yunfang's family who was talking, Shen Yunfang was 20 years older, and his name was Shen Jide. He was a hardworking farmer. The first time I came to the field, I could see him tending the crops.

"Hey, brother Ji De, you're busy too. I won't tell you anymore, I went to the field first, the water is too heavy." Shen Yunfang didn't stop, carrying a pole and sweating towards her private plot .

"Oh, it's not good for a little girl to carry such a heavy burden. Brother will help you carry two buckets later. You can rest for a while." Shen Jide shouted from behind.

"No, thank you Ji De, I can do it myself." Shen Yunfang also shouted.

When she reached the ground, she put down the pole on her shoulders, and she knew without looking, that her shoulders must be red.

She looked down at the water in the bucket which was not half full, and felt a little smug in her heart.Her progress can be seen from the water in the bucket. These days of climbing and land reclamation have significantly improved her physical strength. Although there is still a gap from the real crop handle style, progress is something to be happy about, isn't it?

Farming is a big science. It is like raising a child. After you plant it, in order to have a good harvest, you can’t let it go. You have to take good care of it.

How to serve it?That is weeding, watering and fertilizing.

Weeding is easy to say, once every ten days and a half months is enough. Shen Yunfang still thinks she is competent for weeding and digging vegetables.

Fertilization is also okay. Brother Dashuan will help her pour the manure retting in the manure pit into the ground, which is her secret base, and let her spread some vermicompost.

The most difficult thing is watering. Fortunately, corn is a drought-resistant plant. As long as there is enough irrigation during the heading stage and the filling stage, it can grow well.I usually don't water a lot.

But even if it is not much, it is difficult for Shen Yunfang.

There is no well on the side of the private plot, and if the villagers want to irrigate the land, they can only use buckets and poles to fetch water from the stream at the head of the village.

This job is difficult for everyone, but it is even more difficult for Shen Yunfang.

Shen Yunfang has room to cheat, but she can't just create water out of thin air.Just like Shen Jide just now, she was in that kind of place every day, she Shen Yunfang came once a few days, and it was clear whether she was carrying water or not, if you didn't see her carrying water but found that the corn in her field was not short of water, it would not be obvious Tell people if she has a problem.

So even if it was to confuse everyone, she had to carry the water herself.Instead, it saves trouble to water the land up the mountain, and it can be done if there is space.

(End of this chapter)