A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 79 [079] End of Summer Harvest

In this way, we will be busy until mid-June before we can ensure that the transplanting on the rice field is completed.

Instead of growing buckwheat, millet, or sorghum, their family chose corn with a higher yield.

Of the six mu of land, two mu of land is planted with rice, and two mu of land is planted with corn. Of the remaining two mu of land, one mu of land is planted with sweet potatoes in the first half and sesame seeds in the second half, and the last mu of land is planted with Vegetables such as water spinach, celery, cabbage, radish, beans, and cucumbers are counted as winter reserve vegetables. If they can be sold, they can be sold.

As for the sweet potatoes at home and the sweet potato land they reclaimed on the river beach, they are eating almost the same at present, and the replanting is almost the same. This crop will not be harvested until October, or before the frost, and this batch of sweet potatoes harvested. They are successively made into sweet potato starch and vermicelli as a winter reserve.

Of course, this is her estimate. As for what the family thinks, it depends on the parents' decision.

Most of the vegetables in the front and back of the house and in the small vegetable fields have become their staple food in summer.

There is no chance to pickle or store it. First of all, salt is needed for pickling, and the purchase of salt will be limited. You can’t buy too much at a time, and they are all large-grained salt. The finer salt is more expensive.

On their side, the large grains of salt cost eight cents a catty, and the fine salt is [-] cents a catty, so the salt jars in every household are basically full of large and coarse salt, coarse salt can only be bought for two catties at a time, and fine salt is even more demanding. , I can only buy one catty at a time, but fortunately, although she has a purchase limit, it is not limited to people, and there is no registration of food or anything. If two more people go, or go again the next day, she doesn't say anything.

Like the first batch of cowpea, later generations like to pickle it and make it hot and sour, or sour, which is commonly known as kimchi, and Sichuan Province is the most famous.

It's a pity that they were very hungry at that time, so how could they save them and marinate them? If they choose the tenderer ones later, it's okay to make some capers. She guessed that most of the vegetables her mother planted in that acre of land were prepared for winter.

In addition to cowpeas that can be pickled, cucumbers, shallots, peppers, persimmons, and garlic sprouts can be pickled, and various green vegetables can be made into prunes.

As long as you think about it, there is basically nothing you can’t keep. The key is not to want to, because the daily vegetables and sweet potatoes are their staple food, and they can’t keep it at all. It’s true that the wheat is coming down now, but they still need to pay public food. After the public rations are finished, the rest is considered their own.

Now that the date for the delivery of public rations has not yet been set, the big guys naturally dare not eat Hesai nonsense, and they are still drying it repeatedly every day.

The only relief is that the grain in the field has been sown, and then only regular fertilization and weeding are required.

And during this time, not only their family members were exhausted, but other families in the village were also exhausted.

The uncle's one-month vacation should also be over, because it takes five or six days of tossing around on the way back.

When the uncle came back this time, he didn't bring much. Even the allowance was replaced with bean dregs cakes and sent home. But when he was about to leave, the auntie couldn't help but cry because there was nothing at home to prepare for him. , there is no meat, that is, there is not even an egg, so I can only use the newly harvested wheat to bake some dry biscuits for my uncle and ask him to take them on the road.

The uncle didn't pick anything, and even felt that he was very happy to eat white flour biscuits. As for the pickled vegetables, they were all fresh vegetables from home. What else could he choose?

When I came back this time, I saw that my wife not only took good care of the family, but the children are now in school, and the lives of younger brothers and sisters are also prosperous. He can also be worthy of his parents and brothers under Jiuquan.

(End of this chapter)