A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 37 [037] Growing Sweet Potatoes
In fact, fruit trees are not easy to grow. Without pesticides, it is difficult to grow fruit. She does not know how their fruit is this year, but judging from the fruit trees sprouting and blooming, they are quite beautiful, especially peach and pear trees. Yibai looks good.

This year, Auntie and Auntie planted many varieties of vegetables in front of and behind the house, including cucumbers, eggplants, bitter gourds, beans, green peppers, green onions, coriander, coriander, basil, amaranth, nepeta, pumpkin, persimmons, eyebrow beans Wait, the surprise is that there is basil, which can be eaten instead of lettuce.

There are many vegetables that can be eaten in spring and autumn. Regardless of the south or the north, as long as you work hard, you will never be able to eat them all when the harvest season comes. At this time, smart people will dry these vegetables and dry them until the cold winter , and then take it out to eat, such as prunes, pickled sauerkraut, radish and so on.

Recently, because I was able to satisfy my hunger, although I didn’t have enough to eat, at least I ate food, which would not make your stomach uncomfortable, bloated, and unable to pull it down. Uncle’s contribution is naturally indispensable.

Early the next morning, there was a sporadic drizzle, and A-Niang and A-Pai were very happy: "It's raining, that's great, let's hurry up and plant."

Farmers will sow vegetables or seeds before it rains. After a rain, they will germinate quickly, and the survival rate is very high. It was not a big deal, but it made my mother very excited.

The reason why sweet potatoes are planted on the river beach is because the soil on the beach is not as good as the water holding capacity at the door of the house. Sweet potatoes don’t like to drink water. If they are planted in soil with good water absorption, they will be easily flooded by rain. Bad, or the root lumps are very small, but in the sandy soil of the river beach, that is, the soil where the water loss is relatively fast, the sweet potato can grow very large.And the land should not be too fat, otherwise it will only grow leaves.

This is what A Niang told her when she was planting sweet potatoes in the backyard. They mainly eat the leaves of sweet potatoes in the backyard, so they don’t grow many. Can't say enough.

There is no well on the river beach, and the harvest depends entirely on your own efforts. It is your luck that the weather is good and the rain is abundant. In the case of drought and little rain, you have to carry water from the river to irrigate. As much as there is, there will be as much harvest.

Zhuo Lin made a fuss and wanted to go, but the situation was unknown that day, if she got sick, wouldn't she catch a cold?So my father did not agree with them to go, and his attitude was firm.

Zhuo Lin pursed her lips and didn't change her father's decision. In the end, she could only stay at home obediently, but she couldn't be free, especially the sweet potato leaves were delicious. Now that she had vegetables, she didn't bother to look for wild vegetables. I almost ate wild vegetables all day long, and I was tired of it, so I sat in the corner and slowly grew sweet potato seedlings.

Whether the sweet potato grows well or not does not depend on whether it is planted lying down or upright, but based on land, nutrition and many other reasons.

Some sweet potato seedlings are not so long, how to plant them lying down?
By the way, the sweet potato seedlings were brought back by the brigade from the agricultural resource station. In previous years, they had to pay, but this year there was a severe drought, so there was no mention of the payment. Every household is not as much as you want. How much is given to you is divided according to the population of the family. Generally, a family of six like them can get almost [-] plants, which is already quite a lot, at least enough for our family to eat sweet potatoes for one winter. If the output is high, you can also make some vermicelli and starch!

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