In my days as a farmer

The clear sky in July is cloudless, and the clear blue is reflected on the water. It is hard to tell whether the sky has entered the pond or the pond has surrounded the sky.

Under the sunlight, the lotus leaves in the small pool stretch out to the fullest, and it tries to expose as many parts of its body to the sunlight as possible. Through a method called photosynthesis, the leaves will work hard to produce enough organic matter to supply to the roots.

It is now four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun at this time is no longer scorching hot at noon, and gradually becomes milder.Regardless of the fact that lotus is an aquatic plant with half of its body submerged in water, the sun at noon is not very comfortable for it. In order to maintain the vitality of the leaves, they need to consume more energy under the scorching sun.

Now the light intensity is just right =w=

Where people can't see, the roots of the lotus are sending energy to the place where the plant needs according to the needs of the plant, and now, with every breath, their goal of striving is to give the lovely little flower a lot of energy. White flowers provide full energy.

Although it looks unpretentious, this little white flower has been pollinated by a hard-working bee yesterday, and then its petals will fall off, and as the ovary gradually expands, the seeds that will continue their lives will be bred in it .

For a plant, it takes a lot of energy to gestate seeds, but they are happy.

However, an unexpected disaster happened at this moment. The owner of this small courtyard walked up to the little white flower wearing slippers and holding scissors. frightened.

With a cold and merciless "click", the connection between the little white flower and the lotus leaf was broken.

Lotus:! ! ! !

The sinful human who pushed the flower with his hands pinched the little white flower and smelled it, it was quite fragrant.He put the little white flower and the scissors on the shore together, then squatted down and began to grope for the lotus pot.

In the beginning, he planted the lotus seeds in pots for the convenience of digging out the lotus seeds in autumn and saving the step of laying soil in the small pond.Thanks to this, Xia Dongli can now easily find the root of the lotus.

He squeezed a tea strainer filled with earthworm fertilizer and stuffed it into the flower pot, which was the price for picking this little white flower.

The vermicompost is naturally produced in our own worm factory, and we usually feed melons, fruits and vegetables with guaranteed quality.

Moreover, the earthworm fertilizer is very gentle, and it can be directly sprinkled without decomposing. The only disadvantage is that the particles are too small, and they will be washed away in the water, so he came up with a method of stuffing the earthworm fertilizer in the tea strainer. Method.

The gap of the tea strainer will be smaller than that of the earthworm fertilizer. The earthworm fertilizer is not easy to spill out, but when it is soaked in water, the organic matter can contact the soil through the gap. Uh, although it will definitely lose some, it should be useful... Bar?

It doesn't matter if it's useless, and the lotus root won't end too much in the first year.

That's right!After Xia Dongli checked in many ways, he has accepted the cruel fact that the little lotus he planted is indeed a vegetable lotus root.

In fact, the so-called vegetable lotus root belongs to the type of lotus root. You can tell from the name that its focus is to cultivate lotus root joints.In order to promote root development as much as possible, its cultivation direction is to flower as little as possible.

For plants, flowering and setting seeds is quite energy-consuming. Less flowers and less nature means that the roots can have more energy to grow.As for the large lotus scenes that often appear in most tourist attractions or lotus pictures, they are basically seed lotus or Hualien.

The normal flowering period of lotus is three to four days. The cultivation direction of Hualien is to prolong the flowering time and cultivate double-petaled varieties.

I was very angry, since he was going to send him pirated goods, why not give him seed lotus, at least the seed lotus is still blooming!

In fact, the day after the phone call with Lao Xu, Xia Dongli went to Taobao merchants to fight for 300 rounds.The unscrupulous seller saw that Xiaobai still wanted to continue to fool him with the inaccurate color of the first year, until Xia Dongli said that he was going to dig out the lotus root joints.

The seller confidently stated that he might have sent the wrong product. According to the rules in the TB details, if the version is wrong, they will compensate one to three, and he can compensate Xia Dongli for another three seedlings.

Xia Dongli did his homework this time. He went to other people's Taobao stores to search for lotus varieties in order to find a variety that does exist and looks good.And in the process of searching, he was surprised to find that the details and photos of the treasures that moved his heart when he bought lotus in this store were actually plagiarized from another five-diamond store.

As a literary worker, Comrade Xiaoxia said that he hates plagiarism the most!

He immediately ordered the customer service of the shop that was plagiarized, and told someone about it, the customer service girl listened to him very calmly, and said that she would report it, and then she instructed Xia Dongli to choose the three Variety.

These three varieties are common varieties in lotus, their value is relatively low, and generally there will be no misalignment.Moreover, these kinds of skins can survive the winter safely if they are placed indoors or in water under the ice in the northeast region where Xia Dongli is located.

Of course, this method is not suitable for all lotus. Different varieties of lotus have different cold resistance. For example, Xia Dongli wanted to buy a double-petaled lotus variety in this store, which was rejected by the girl. The customer service girl is gentle. It means that this breed cannot be raised in the Northeast unless it is kept in the greenhouse.Even if you put it in the greenhouse, the flowers are barely alive. If they don’t bloom well, it’s better not to raise them.

This is the attitude of a responsible seller. Xia Dongli's favorability for this store is simply MAX.

It's completely different from the previous one, which can definitely be raised without any problem. Xia Dongli has collected this shop now, and plans to continue purchasing next year if the car is overturned.

Anyway, it was all in the water, Xia Dongli simply took a dredge to clean up the fallen leaves on the surface of the small pond, and also confirmed the firmness of the earth embankment around the small pond, and compacted it when it was soft, and it will grow longer The money grass and mint that were too presumptuous were cut off a little.

Well!This mint is an ordinary spearmint mint. Since the catnip was mistakenly planted last time to attract big cats, Xia Dongli has identified his own mint one by one to ensure that such tragedies will not happen again.

The mint beside the small pool is lush and lush. This kind of plant likes water and tolerates waterlogging. The most important thing is that it grows fast and has excellent soil-fixing ability, and it can form a small shade area, which is convenient for small animals in the pool to avoid direct sunlight. It is a good pond crop - of course, this is based on the premise that it is laid with geotextiles at the bottom.

If mint is planted in the ground, it must be set in pots, otherwise its wild growth ability will turn the surrounding area into its territory, and it will not be completely destroyed.

For some reptiles, these shelters are also a good route for them to avoid the attacks of natural enemies when they go ashore. For example, the two tortoises of Xia Dongli's family are taking a nap in the mint bushes.

Although there are many benefits, for the owner of the yard, one flower alone is not enough.The powerful aggressiveness of mint and money grass seriously affected the growth space of the iris next door. As a good master of rain and dew, Xia Dongli wiped them off a lot without hesitation.

Then the money grass became compost, and the mint was soaked in a drink. After a while, put it in the refrigerator to cool down. When Xun Ao came back, it would be a glass of iced mint lemonade, which relieved the heat and relieved the tiredness.

But Xia Dongli could only watch Xun Yao drink.

Since the beginning of summer, the evil CCTV has started to publicize the dangers of drinking iced drinks, eating cold drinks and eating iced watermelons. It was originally a health policy for children on summer vacation, but his boyfriend took it into account. The person who has a spoon for rice So he tried to stop Xia Dongli from eating ice. If he had to eat it, he had to heat it up. That's not bad!

Xia Dongli naturally protested passionately. After using the [-]th class of skills to throw the integrity to the ground, he got the chance to only choose one of the three ices to eat every day.

Is there still a choice?Of course it is Chabing watermelon!Watermelon without ice has no soul!The thin-skinned watermelon ice brought by Lao Xu is cut in half and eaten in half. The taste is sweet and crisp, and the happiness is really MAX, even surpassing the ice.

It's just that there are too few melons!

Most of the melons brought by Lao Xu were given away by Xia Dongli the day after he left. Even Xia Dongli, the small boss of the dairy farm and slaughterhouse next door, drove a few of them there.

Watermelons are not very valuable in Northeast China, but crispy melons can be eaten fresh, and the people who receive the gifts are quite happy.The local people pay attention to reciprocity, and the degree of this reciprocity must surpass you, so when Xia Dongli said goodbye, he was so dazed that he was stuffed with a bunch of return gifts, which far exceeded the watermelon he sent over.

Of course Xia Dongli refused, but in the end he was shocked and threw out the northeast quatrains - if you don't accept it, you will look down on me.

After saying this, can Xia Dongli still refuse?Of course not!After delivering a round of watermelons, he drove back to Xiaotupo in a trance-filled tricycle. With this harvest, he basically didn't need to buy vegetables for half a month.

The most exaggerated thing was a wooden bedside table that Brother Hu gave him. At that time, this thing happened to be next to Brother Hu. The big man took the watermelon and turned around and handed over the bedside table. Xia Dongli was shocked at the time.

Later, he thought it was not right, he took too much of the bargain, so he picked up a few more watermelons and threw them away quietly, but in this way, there would not be much watermelon left for Xiaotupo.Xia Dongli ate melons every day, and seeing the watermelons dwindling one by one, he inevitably came up with the idea of ​​growing watermelons. He even touched the store where the watermelon seeds were purchased, and was finally interrupted by the matter of the lotus root.

Comrade Xiao Xia, who was cheated by Taobao once, sighed to the sky. The road to farming is long, so he should try to figure it out a little bit. Let’s get things done on the small soil slope first.

Xia Dongli put the picked white lotus in a small teacup, and then stuffed the lemonade into the refrigerator. After walking around the yard, he sauntered to the storage room and took out a few teacups. Empty buckets and electric drill.

A few days ago, he saw a very magical composting method on the Internet. He happened to be fine today, so he just wanted to try it.

Like him, the UP owner used earthworms to fertilize the field, but he directly raised the earthworms in the field.

It's not just sprinkled in!The environment and food that earthworms need to survive have certain requirements, and the number of earthworms that can be accommodated in a piece of land is also determined by the humus content in the soil.

But in other words, if the amount of humus in a piece of soil is enough to feed a large group of earthworms, then there is no need for people to sprinkle earthworms in it to help fertilize the field.

So the idea of ​​this UP owner is that he will artificially provide food for earthworms, create a microenvironment suitable for the life of earthworms so that they can grow and reproduce in it, and at the same time use some method to let earthworms go out to help him work.

It looks complicated, but it is actually similar to his ecological breeding box. The only difference is that some holes are drilled around the body and bottom of the medium where earthworms live to facilitate the entry and exit of earthworms, and then the parts with holes are buried in the soil.

Earthworms like to drill holes, and they don't like to be crowded together with their own kind. As long as they are given an environment where they can leave, they will develop around them. However, although the world outside the barrel is wonderful, it lacks food, so if the earthworms are hungry, they must go home for dinner.

Go out to surf when you are full, and come back to eat when you are hungry. It will not take long for the soil around the earthworm bucket to be loosened, and rich humus will be left in the breeding bucket.

What if someone asks the earthworm to go out and not come back?

Hey, the land is all yours, and no matter how much the earthworms run around as the owner, they will not suffer a loss~ Moreover, this kind of breeding tank will also attract wild earthworms, so generally speaking, they will not lose money.

Although it seems that the method is very simple, it is still feasible in theory. The UP master is doing this experiment, and the result is not yet known.

Xia Dongli also has the raw materials, and he plans to try it out. If this method works, it will save him the trouble of separating the earthworms into cages. In the future, if the soil is not pleasing to the eye, he will put an earthworm bucket in it and raise it for a while. The soil is fat, isn't it very beautiful.

Just doing what he said, Xia Dongli stepped on the plastic bucket with one foot, and held the electric drill with the other hand. Just as he was about to turn on the power, he felt a light in his hand, and then a familiar temperature came to his back.

Xia Dongli raised his head, a little surprised by the people behind him: "Xiao Yu, you're so early today."

Hey, is he too focused, he didn't hear Xiao Ling open the door.

Their little girl goes to study with Dr. Xu at 2 pm every day, and the village clinic closes at [-] pm. In addition to the time to organize make-up classes, Xun Ao usually arrives home after [-] pm. Why did he come back after [-] pm today?

The young man helped his lover whose center of gravity was unstable while stepping on the bucket, hugged him, and then put him in a safe place aside.He picked up the electric drill and drilled according to the holes drawn by Xia Dongli on the plastic bucket, and said, "The teacher is going to have dinner with his colleagues in the city at night, so he asked me to come back first. What is this bucket for?"

"Raise earthworms." Xia Dongli roughly talked to him about his ideas, and then turned out the remaining plastic buckets and faced Xun Yu with the bottom up: "This hole is a little bit more scattered, and then we will see what effect it will have." good."

"Okay." Xun Yu responded, he was quick and dexterous, and finished a plastic bucket in less than a minute. Xia Dongli sprinkled soil and earthworms in it, and went to the kitchen to dig out all the vegetables and kitchen waste.

Then he discovered a problem.

Earthworms and soil are enough, but kitchen waste... After Xiaokang left, their vegetable consumption dropped a lot!Now one sub-cage is actually not enough, and I have to find some other substitutes.

Xiaokang used to be a big food waste manufacturer in their family. He is a very particular pig. He would not eat vegetables with insect eyes. If he saw Xia Dongli tearing off the insect bite marks and trying to fool him, he would loose the temper.

But the problem is, if pesticides are not sprayed, how can the vegetables have no insect eyes? Xia Dongli's vegetables are surrounded by nets, but this only reduces the probability of being bitten, and there is no guarantee that they will not be bitten at all.

Not to mention the ones purchased from the village. Of course, it is impossible to use the high-cost insect control method of netting for large-scale planting. If you want to buy insect-free ones, you have to buy pesticide-treated ones.

Although the control of pesticides in Xiaojin Village is very strict, theoretically speaking, the degradation is finished during harvesting, but Xia Dongli still can't help but wash the vegetables several times, which is not a small burden according to the consumption of vegetables at home.

In the past, the insects that were washed out when washing vegetables without spraying pesticides could still be used as snacks for ducks, but those that were sprayed with pesticides could not.

However, usually these leftover vegetable leaves are chopped up as snacks for ducks and fed to earthworms, which is not considered a waste.

PS: Xiaokang didn’t care about these at all when he was stealing food. He was very happy to eat it with dust, dirt and insect eyes, and he was also a pig who couldn’t understand the brain circuit.

Cough cough, having said that, after Xiaokang left, only Xiaobae was grass-fed in the family, but Xiaobaa eats his fill every day on the mountain, and after going down the mountain, he prefers to eat juicy cucumbers and tomatoes rather than vegetable leaves, so there is basically no need to feed them. It feeds vegetables.

Both Xia Dongli and Xiaoyu are carnivorous animals, and their consumption of vegetables is much lower than that of meat. I will not mention Santiao Wang, and asking them to supplement vitamins is like forcing a good prostitute. After several times of superimposition, their family Vegetable kitchen waste is not enough. Fortunately, watermelon rinds can be used to make up for this season. As for the future...

When Lao Xu starts to work, Xiaokang will come back, and then the food waste supply will be able to keep up.

Speaking of which, I didn’t think so before, but now I suddenly realize——

"So Xiaokang is really a waste! It's wasteful and delicate. Fortunately, it must not be Xiangxiang's husband after being neutered, otherwise these fifteen little piglets would be so difficult to raise!" Xia Dongli whispered to Xun Yu.

In a small courtyard in the far south, Xiaokang pig, who was standing in place and let a young man take a shower, couldn't hold back and sneezed loudly.

"Hmph~" It seemed that someone was scolding me. It shook its head and was a little puzzled at first, but soon narrowed its eyes under the comfort of the master rushing over with a towel.

"Xiao Kang, don't catch a cold! If you have a cold, you can't eat watermelon!"

"Hmph~" No way!Not only to eat watermelon, but also to eat lotus root with water spinach, lettuce and asparagus!

Pigs don't catch colds, and those who catch colds in summer are idiots!