Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

The spring sowing at home could finally begin. The two spent three days waiting for the seeds to be dried, soaked, and germinated. They also took the time to go to the meadow to inspect the current situation of the meadow.

I went out for a walk in the morning and evening for several days and made sure there were no signs of animal activity such as jackals or wolves.

In addition to the most common deer and rabbits, most of them are herbivores. Of course, there are also carnivores, but basically they are minks or foxes that do not pose much of a threat. Only then did the two finally get rid of the animals that had been trapped for a year. The four dogs, cattle, sheep and horses were let out.

The livestock went out smoothly, and the two men started sowing.

The first thing to do is, of course, growing rice seedlings from seeds.

Before sowing vegetables, the greenhouse in the courtyard first became a seedling bed for the two people to raise rice seedlings. After scattering all the rice seeds, they continued to cover it with the plastic sheet that was covered on the greenhouse last year to keep warm.

The cold resistance of seeds during the emergence stage is not as high as that of seedlings, so keeping warm during this period is particularly important.

Compared with rice, wheat is the most cold-resistant. Before sowing corn, the two of them scattered the treated wheat seeds into the ground.

After planting the wheat, Zhao Yeqing thought that the temperature difference between morning and evening was still a bit big recently, so he planned to push back the sowing of corn and rapeseed, and first plant the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the vegetable field outside.

The two have already cultivated sweet potato seedlings indoors. They can just put the cultivated seedlings and stems into the ground and bury them in the soil.

The most suitable temperature for the development of sweet potato and potato seedlings is preferably above 15 degrees. Although it is not the most suitable planting time for these two crops, they can survive and develop normally at temperatures above degrees. In order to avoid the arrival of summer With the high temperature during the period, the advantages of planting now outweigh the disadvantages.

Moreover, potatoes are a crop that likes coolness and hates heat. Although sweet potatoes are not cold-tolerant and prefer warm temperatures, their growth will be inhibited as long as they encounter high temperatures above 35 degrees. Therefore, as long as they can survive, Zhao Yeqing wants to sow them as soon as possible.

The vegetable plot outside the yard is not small, almost the same as a grain plot. After the two of them raised the vegetable plot and planted sweet potatoes, several days had passed.

After seeing that the temperature at noon during this period can remain above ten degrees, and that the temperature at night does not drop below zero, I can safely move the peppers and strawberries in the house outside.

There is a drainage ditch under the wall behind a row of houses at home. When it rains, the water flowing down from the eaves will drip along the tiles and fall into the ditch for drainage. Therefore, under the eaves of the backyard is the coolest and most humid place. .

Zhao Yeqing moved several taro plants in the basement to the side of the drainage ditch. After one winter, these taro plants were not dead. Their growth was inhibited and the fruits did not expand much. He moved them to the ground to let them continue to grow.

After these are processed, corn and rapeseed can also be sown.

Normally, corn can be planted in the south for three seasons, and it is basically sown around March to April. However, the two of them had the same idea of ​​planting potatoes and sweet potatoes. Now that the weather is special, as long as they can germinate normally when planted in the ground, Even if it is slower, they want to get the seeds into the ground as early as possible to avoid the subsequent high temperatures.

With the current temperature, not only three seasons can be planted, but two seasons a year, Zhao Yeqing is already very satisfied.

The corn field was the largest. The two of them bent over and scattered the seeds little by little. After planting, they could hardly stand upright.

Before going to bed, Mu Xi massaged Zhao Yeqing, who was lying on the bed. The force of his hands was neither light nor heavy, and the massage made Zhao Yeqing feel painful and comfortable, making him groan.

Mu Xi said with some distress: "When I was looking for an iron plow, I wanted to see if there was a seeder. Unfortunately, there were too few houses that were not buried in the village at the foot of the mountain. Apart from this plow, there was no other usable tool. Waiting for spring sowing. Then I tried to see if I could make one myself so that it would be easier for me to plant seeds next time.”

After all, people's energy is limited. There are many and complicated things at home. Breeding and planting must also resist external dangers. It is true that many things will be ignored. Zhao Yeqing had thought about making a seeder before, but he completely forgot about it when he got busy.

"This is possible. I feel that the principle is not very difficult, but it is a bit troublesome to control the amount and accuracy. We can study it during the slack period after spring sowing. "

Corn is sown using hole sowing, which means opening small holes in the corn field and placing two seeds in each small hole. Some people will also put three seeds if they are accustomed to planting. After the seedlings emerge, they will pull out the two seeds, leaving only The next plant continues to grow.

This is to ensure that seedlings grow in every pit. Some people directly let the two or three seedlings in the pit continue to grow. However, such a sowing density is not conducive to the subsequent expansion of corn fruits.

If Zhao Yeqing only wanted to use the corn in this field as silage, she might use this method, but this time she was to harvest corn fruits, so she only put two seeds in each small hole. , after the seedlings emerge, they will be pulled out, leaving only one plant.

Judging from the previous sowing, the germination rate of the corn they saved was pretty good, and two seeds should be enough.

Hole sowing is more troublesome. You have to control the number of seeds and cover them with soil. As time goes by, your waist becomes unbearable.

After planting the corn field, the sweet stalks were also sown into the ground. The sweet stalks also had to be sown in holes. Their waists, which had become rusty after a cold winter's rest, almost broke on the spot.

Fortunately, after several days of hard work, only rice and rapeseed were left.

Before the rice seedlings are grown and transplanted, sowing rapeseed should be the simplest task. There is no need to cover the soil or bend down to sow. Just stand on the ground and spread the fine rapeseed evenly into the soil.

Zhao Yeqing was slowly sowing rapeseed in the field, and Mu Xi started making scarecrows again.

During this time, the chirping of birds can already be heard in the morning sky. It must be that the birds that flew to unknown places before winter and successfully survived the severe cold have all flown back.

The birds that had traveled a long distance were all hungry at this time, and they were even more eager to see the grain seeds in the ground.

In winter, when the temperature was not that low, Zhao Yeqing had a small harvest of pumpkins sown in the basement.

She planted the seeds of the most upright one after she let it grow old, hoping that next year's pumpkins would all grow up so upright.

The pulp inside the pumpkin that has been seeded will gradually dry up, leaving only the seeds inside and an empty round pumpkin shell outside.

Zhao Yeqing dug out the seeds and kept the original shape of the pumpkin. Now he was able to make a scarecrow with a pumpkin head for Mu Xi.

Unfortunately, there was only one pumpkin, and scarecrows had to be placed in several fields. Zhao Yeqing placed the most beautiful one in the wheat field closest to his home.

During the day, the sun shines on the grass, and the breeze gently blows the shabby clothes wrapped around the scarecrow and sways gently with the wind.

The grass on the meadow has grown to seven or eight centimeters high, and it is full of crisp yellow-green as far as the eye can see.