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

This is an aphid, one of the inescapable pests of Solanaceae plants. It sucks the juice of the plant. It doesn’t look disgusting, and it is not a very difficult pest to kill, but it cannot be left alone. Over time, it will become worse and worse. If too much, the plant will slowly wilt.

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This thing had appeared in the basement in previous years when the environment was closed. Zhao Yeqing found some ladybugs and put them inside. Ladybugs are beneficial insects and will not harm the plants. They love to eat these tender and delicious aphids.

Aphids are the food of most insects, but now it is not difficult to operate in a closed environment, so we can only find ways to get some medicine to kill the insects.

After thinking about it, tobacco leaf water is the simplest and most convenient. Fengyou essence mixed with detergent and water can also kill insects, but if the ratio is not good, it will easily burn the seedlings, and tobacco leaves are gentler.

Insects are growing on pepper seedlings, and tomatoes and eggplants are certainly not immune. Spray tobacco leaf water on them as well, and sprinkle some in the soil a little away from the roots, hoping to repel the insects.

Crops such as pumpkins are more convenient and can be planted directly next to the fence.

Vine plants grow particularly fast. Not long after the pumpkins were planted, about the same time as the pepper seedlings, vines more than one meter long have grown. The vines have circled the bamboo fence several times.

Also circling around is the wisteria flower in the small garden. It is now in its flowering season. Thousands of wisteria flower strings hang down from the top. The flowers are full and pleasing to the eye. The flowers of this season are blooming, allowing the bees in the entire forest to relax after the winter. A hive that can happily fill the emptiness of its own consumption.

The originally expected scene of sitting under the wisteria corridor, admiring the flowers and drinking a drink, did not come to fruition. The bees during the flowering period were so hardworking that Zhao Yeqing did not dare to approach them.

Mu Xi replanted the vegetable garden outside with sweet potatoes. When Zhao Yeqing thought of the vegetable garden outside, he thought of the melon-bean paste that he had not made last year, and his heart was filled with worry for a few minutes.

This year I won’t plant so many watermelons, I’ll just plant a few beside the fence in the yard.

The citrus tree was already taller than the wall. Zhao Yeqing originally planned to prune the branches to prevent snakes and the like from crawling in with the help of branches and leaves. However, he thought that a wooden fence had been built outside and it would not be easy for animals to get in, so he just pruned it roughly and lowered it. of branches and leaves.

The banana tree has begun to bear fruit this year. Originally, there were only two trees planted in the yard, but the root system underneath spread and many seedlings grew. Zhao Yeqing left two seedlings and dug out the rest and planted them on the wooden fence. Went outside.

The two largest trees in the house are expected to be able to eat fruit in another month. When the fruit matures, the tree will no longer bear fruit. The two saplings left are just so that they can still eat bananas in the next season.

Zhao Yeqing really likes eating bananas. They are very sweet and filling. When the two big bunches of bananas are not finished, they can be made into dried bananas and banana jam.

The dried bananas in Yunnan Province are very delicious. They are not hard and dry, but slightly moist. They are soft and waxy and can be eaten when they are half dry. They are also very healthy as snacks.

As I think about it, the time waiting for the bananas to ripen feels a little more difficult.

So greedy.

However, the asparagus planted last year is almost ready to eat now. It grows straight out of the ground one by one. There are no leaves, just a pole stuck in the ground. It looks very special among the green leaves.

It doesn’t always grow leaves. After the first crop is harvested, you can see the leaves by leaving a few spring mother stems to grow up. The leaves that grow out are as thin as those of asparagus, which is pretty good. nice.

Zhao Yeqing measured the length and cut off the fastest growing ones, hoping that they would be enough to eat when the summer bamboo shoots were harvested in the summer.

Wash a few asparagus and cut them into sections, fry them in a pan, sprinkle with salt and eat. Adding too many condiments to fresh spring vegetables is disrespectful to them.

This was not enough for a meal, so Zhao Yeqing fried it and ate it as a snack. It was fresh, crisp and tender, and after one day it would no longer be spring vegetables.

Tomorrow is the beginning of summer.

Guyu and Lixia are close to each other, but within half a month to twenty days.

Guyu, Grain Rain, rained as expected for about ten days, and did not stop until it was close to the beginning of summer.

Fortunately, it has stopped now. The wheat will turn yellow soon. If there is still rain, the wheat that has grown for three or four months will become moldy and rot in the ground.

There is also a period of rain after the beginning of summer. Zhao Yeqing estimates that the wheat will mature around that time. The wheat is planted earlier this season to avoid the rain during that period, hoping that nothing will go wrong.

The time before transplanting was relatively leisurely, and also after transplanting. The two of them went to the forest before transplanting and dug a lot of limestone. Zhao Yeqing tried calling the names of several leopards in the forest, but after waiting for a while, there was no response.

The two had no choice but to go home.

The excavated limestone is used to lay the broken tile cement floor in the backyard that was planned from the beginning. Before laying the cement floor, the weeds in the backyard must be removed. Once the cleaning is completed, the rice can be planted.

The treatment of the seedlings is the same as for dry rice seedlings. Pull them all out and put them in a wooden box. The green seedlings are arranged neatly inside. After they are all pulled out, the soil bed for the seedlings is leveled. Water is added to the rice field and the water level is lightly covered. You can plant rice seedlings just above your feet.

Planting rice is not necessarily the only way to transplant rice seedlings. Zhao Yeqing has seen villagers down the mountain before using the method of throwing rice seedlings. However, that method is more suitable for seedlings grown by the dry rice seedling method. The root system is thicker. The seedlings of the water-raised rice seedling method are Throw unevenly.

The rice-throwing method only requires you to stand in the field holding the rice seedlings and throw the rice seedlings one by one into the rice field. The process is simple and quick, and does not require bending down to work, which is very time-saving and labor-saving.

But there are also disadvantages. Throwing the seedlings requires a lot of hand feel. Neither of them is proficient in farming. The seedlings thrown are easy to be inconsistent in depth and uneven. Some places are dense and some are sparse. It is difficult to rework later.

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Throwing the rice seedlings is a bit uneven and uneven.

Walking barefoot into a field full of seedlings to replant or thin out the seedlings can easily damage the seedlings next to them, so it is better to transplant the seedlings honestly.

Although transplanting rice is a bit tiring, it is easier to manage in the later period. Ventilation, ventilation and lighting will be more even, making it less likely to breed pests and diseases. In this special period when you can't buy anything, the biggest fear of farming is that the crops will get sick.

Anyway, the two of them had more time, and they would rather be tired than take a chance and bet that the rice would not get sick.

Zhao Yeqing used to find it hard when he first started farming, but now he is used to the work and doesn't feel tired at all.

Two people working only need to feed two mouths and four dog mouths, and they can't eat much. They work all day from morning to night and they can finish planting all the rice and glutinous rice.