The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

All the flower sheds in Liangxing Village are built on the hills to the west and east of the village. This area was originally the cultivated land of Baojia Village and Chenjia Village, but now most of them are used to build flower sheds.

The Zhou family's flower shed is built on the top of Dongshan Mountain. It is a sun shed. The terrain here is flat and sunny. The only disadvantage is that it is far away from the water source.

In order to allow everyone to plant flowers better, the village contacted the power supply unit as early as more than ten years ago, pulled the wires to both the Dongshan and Xishan, and then dug wells on both mountains.

The village-to-village project was built in the village the year before last. The villagers raised funds by themselves and paid out of their own pockets, and hired an engineering team to repair the road in the mountains, directly to the door of the villagers' flower sheds.

When Zhou Quan came over, he saw many villagers driving electric agricultural tricycles, pulling the rose flowers that had just been cut and tied down from the mountain.

Villagers who see Zhou Quan driving will automatically stop the car, poke their heads out and chat with Zhou Quan for a while, regardless of what to say, but must chat, Zhou Quan knows that this is the old and young people in the village who care about him.

When he got to the top of the mountain, Zhouquan saw his uncle was cleaning up the broken thick plastic film outside his flower shed, and he had already cleared out more than half of the whole greenhouse.

Those plastic films were put on by the uncle of the Chen family a few years ago. Zhou Quan was studying at the university in the imperial capital, so he never took care of the flower shed, and directly entrusted it to the uncle and the others to take care of it.

Seeing Zhouquan coming up, the uncle put away the old greenhouse film and put it aside for unified treatment, and said to Zhouquan: "Ah Quan, I tried it just now, and the water and electricity in your greenhouse are still connected here." , re-cover the plastic film and it can be used normally.”

The flower greenhouses in Liangxing Village are mainly divided into sunlight greenhouses and pure plastic film greenhouses. The pure plastic film greenhouses are the skeletons of the greenhouses made of bamboo poles, and the outside of the skeletons is covered with greenhouse plastic films that have the function of heat preservation and moisturizing.

This kind of greenhouse is simple to build and cheap to use, which is very suitable for small farmers, but at the same time, its defects are also obvious, such as poor wind and rain resistance, and low thermal insulation performance. It can only be used for planting fresh cut flowers in spring, summer and autumn. It is impossible to continue planting in winter.

The solar greenhouse is built with walls for heat preservation and wind resistance on three sides, and the ceiling and the other side are left vacant. Bamboo poles and cement columns are used to build a flower shed skeleton in the shed. The skeleton is covered with moisturizing film, black net for sun protection, and Insulation items such as quilts and straw curtains can be added.

Compared with ordinary plastic greenhouses, this kind of solar greenhouse is much stronger in heat preservation, cold resistance, and wind and snow resistance, but the cost will also be much higher.

Ordinary plastic pots are used, and the cultivation time of fresh-cut flowers here is generally from April to the end of October, while the time of planting in solar greenhouses can be advanced to March, and the harvest time can be postponed to around New Year's Day.

In this way, the fresh-cut roses planted in the sunflower shed can bloom one season longer than those in ordinary plastic greenhouses as long as they are taken care of.

As a perennial shrub species, rose can be harvested for many years after one planting, but the flowering period of general varieties will end after four to five years of planting, and at this time, old trees must be gradually eliminated and new shoots planted.

There are no flowers planted in Zhou's flower shed now, and the original cut roses were planted when Grandpa Zhou was there.

Later, Zhouquan went to the imperial capital to go to school, and the flower shed was handed over to my aunt to take care of it.

The Zhou family has four solar flower sheds in the village, and a glass greenhouse in the small courtyard of their home. The glass greenhouse has been arranged by Zhouquan when he left, and the Chen family who is in charge of taking care of the sun greenhouse is responsible for the house. My uncle will pay him a fee every year, which is regarded as renting.

Originally, Zhouquan didn't want to collect the money, because he knew that after he left, the roses in the flower shed would probably dry up due to lack of water and fertilizer if left unattended. The brick walls and bamboo-based framework of the flower shed It will also slowly collapse, and after a few years, the flower shed will become a piece of ruins like a house that has been uninhabited for many years.

Rather than doing this, it is better to leave it to the big cousin and the others. At least they will help take care of the roses in the greenhouse, repair and strengthen the flower shed, so that when he comes back in the future, the flower shed will still be intact.

But Zhouquan's big cousin's family disagreed with this idea, they thought it was taking advantage of their children.

You must know that at that time, the plants in Zhou's flower shed were all the cardinals that Grandpa Zhou cared for before. They were the most popular varieties in the fresh-cut flower market at that time, and they would not worry about selling when they were planted.

As long as they are well taken care of, each shed can produce at least a few thousand high-quality red-clothed hierarchs a year. The four sheds of the Zhou family, with nearly three acres of land, can bring in an income of [-] to [-] yuan a year.

This income was definitely more than most urbanites at the time. They were just helping to take care of the flower sheds. How could they regard such a large amount of income as their own?

But he also felt that it was inappropriate for Zhou Quan to take the money. After all, although the flower seedlings and the flower shed belonged to his own family, it was his uncle's family who did the hard work.

This year, weeding, watering, antifreezing and sun protection for the roses every day, and pesticides and fertilizers are all provided by the uncle's family. How can he sit back and enjoy the benefits?

Later, when Zhouquan came back from winter vacation, the two families got together to discuss it, and finally the eldest cousin made a decision, and sent Zhouquan 1000 yuan a month, saying it was for his living expenses, but in fact it was a disguised form of renting their flower shed and flower seedlings. money.

Later, the red-clothed leader planted in the flower shed of the Zhou family passed its peak flowering period, and the uncle was too busy, so after discussing with Zhou Quan, he dug out the flower seedlings in the flower shed, put them in flower pots and treated them as potted flowers for cheap disposal. .

Afterwards, several flower sheds of Zhouquan’s family were completely abandoned. The plastic film that originally covered the framework of the greenhouses had already been broken after a few years. The scaffolding and walls were still there, and it was no different from the wasteland.

It would probably take a lot of time to clean this place up again, so the two of them simply chatted while working.

"Ah Quan, I heard from your brother that you want to collect soil and water samples in our flower shed on the mountain?"

"Oh, it was a message from the professor at my alma mater this morning, saying that he asked me to collect some samples of soil and water quality from our flower shed and send them by mail. They want to help us test it Soil and water quality, help us configure fertilizers according to our soil conditions. It would be great if we can give a soil improvement plan that is conducive to rose planting, which will improve the yield and quality of our roses. "

"What, can the soil quality be improved? Can fertilizer be customized? You scholars know a lot, and what you study is something new."

"Cousin, soil improvement and allocation of fertilization are nothing new. The large-scale planting companies in the imperial capital need these services. Big cousin, I have some ideas and want to talk to you after I checked some information in the morning. "

"Go ahead, I'll listen."

"I think that even if we have high-quality rose varieties, we can't just rely on one variety to make money. According to my data survey, the sales and sales volume of red fresh-cut roses are still the largest in the market, although the price is not high. It is very high, but the market is stable, and it can be planted as a guarantee variety, accounting for about [-]% of the total planting. The blue enchantress will become our cutting-edge product, accounting for about [-]% of the planting area, and the remaining [-]%. The purpose of choosing some distinctive varieties for planting is to share some of the risks of cutting-edge products.”

Whether it is farming or planting, there are risks. Diversification is a good way to share risks. In this way, even if one of the varieties encounters unforeseen circumstances such as poor sales or reduced production, it can be recovered from another variety. , so as not to hurt one's muscles and bones once.

"It makes sense. Scholars are knowledgeable, and they think too far."

Time passed bit by bit while they were talking, and when the sun went down again, they cleaned up a large shed.

Looking up at the sun that was about to set, the eldest cousin of the Chen family wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's getting dark, and we'll talk about the rest of the work tomorrow. It won't be cleared up in a short while."

Zhou Quan agreed with his uncle's opinion, pulled up the collar of his shirt and wiped his face vigorously.

"Ah Quan, come to our house for dinner, your aunt has already prepared."

"Uncle, I know, I'll go home and change into clean clothes."

Zhouquan walked away from his uncle at the foot of the mountain. On the way home, he suddenly heard a sound behind him. He looked back and saw a pickup truck driving quietly behind him.

It was a Ford F-150, the best-selling model in the Ford Raptor series.

The domineering appearance and large tires make the bright blue pickup truck look very cool, and it can drive on mountain roads with almost no sound, which fully demonstrates the excellent performance of the vehicle and the superb driving skills of the driver.

Almost silently, the Ford F-150 drove up to Zhou's side. After it came to a steady stop, the driver opened the door, but did not get out of the car, but looked at him quietly inside.

In the darkening night, Zhou Quan couldn't see the situation inside the pickup truck clearly, but he could only roughly see the outline of the driver, who looked tall and almost blocked the entire pickup truck seat.

Zhou Quan was sure that there was no one with such a tall figure around him, but what was the familiar feeling that silhouette gave him?

After a few seconds of silence, the people in the car moved slowly.

In the night, a pair of black riding boots stepped on the ground, and the khaki denim trousers were attached to the owner's body, wrapping all the strong muscle lines of the opponent's legs.

The driver in the car lowered his head slightly to avoid the door frame, leaned out of the car and closed the door of the Ford Raptor casually.

It was a tall young man with broad shoulders, slender waist and long legs, wheat-colored skin, short curly hair, and straight lines all over his body. He stood there like a cypress. Standing tall and straight.

Shuangfeng eyebrows and red phoenix eyes, sharp between the eyebrows and eyes, a tall nose and light-colored lips, and a round beaded cherry in the middle of the upper lip attracts Zhou Quan's entire attention.

Those familiar eyebrows, that handsome natural curls, and that pearl that he often used to tease each other when he was a child, is it him?Is it really him?

Since knowing the news of the other party's return, Zhou Quan has been looking forward to meeting him, subconsciously covering his chest, holding the white jade card in the palm of his hand.

The young man's attention was always on Zhou Quan's body. Seeing his movements, the corners of his mouth immediately turned up, and the sharpness between his eyebrows and eyes instantly softened.

Putting the black leather jacket on his shoulders with his backhand, the young man strode towards Zhou Quan and said, "Zhou Zhou, I'm back."