Apocalyptic Tundra Age

They are all seedlings. In fact, sweet potatoes are completely different from potatoes. Sweet potato seedlings have roots and leaves, and potatoes are still small pieces of potatoes that have germinated. It is not a problem to put potato seedlings for ten days and a half months. The seedlings must be planted immediately.

The grow lights have not been installed in the vegetable house yet, and the ground has not been dug loose, and there is still a long way to go before the seeds are planted.

Xu Zhonglei connected two large searchlights to the batteries of the chicken coop next door, and the two worked together. Cheng Yuming carried a hoe to loosen the soil, and Xu Zhonglei used tools to dig the loose soil into six small pits in each row. The small pit has to be sprinkled with a little compound fertilizer.

People who have never farmed the land often think that vegetables and rice from the countryside are completely green and pollution-free, naturally grown and raised in the soil.In fact, such land will not be used for a few years at all, and it will be completely useless because the soil loses fertilizer and can only be abandoned.As early as thousands of years ago, people who cultivated the land learned one thing: when they cultivated the land, they needed supplemental fertilizers.

In the beginning, human and animal feces were used. This kind of thing has been used for many years. When Xu Zhonglei had a little memory when he was a child, his grandfather would collect the feces in his latrine, pile them in a pit, and cover the top with woven colorful Plastic sheet, waiting to ferment.

This kind of fertilizer is very dirty and carries a lot of parasites, and the worms will return to the human body after watering the dirty vegetables.At that time, after Xu Zhonglei took insecticide twice a year, he would pull out a large group of corpses of roundworms. Now he can't think about the appearance of those insects because they are really disgusting.

Improved seeds, water conservancy, and fertilizers are the three major saviors in the food world, and they may also be Xu Zhonglei's savior.

"Hey, Cheng Yuming, Xiao Cheng, do you think you can bear it?" Xu Zhonglei sprinkled fertilizer, thinking of his childhood, and thinking about the future.

"It's okay!" Cheng Yuming answered loudly, wielding a hoe mechanically.

"Then... it's up to you. When the compound fertilizer I bought is used up, I have an honorable task for you, comrade. This thing is related to our future..." Xu Zhonglei said casually.

"What the hell? What?"

"Don't rush to refuse, as long as this land can feed and drink for the two of us, every time we plant something, we have to sprinkle fertilizer once, just like the chickens in the next room. We, ourselves, and our three pets all have to contribute."

"What? You don't want me???" Cheng Yuming stopped the hoe in his hand with a shocked face.

"Don't be surprised, keep loosening." Xu Zhonglei's upturned mouth betrayed his mood, "By the time, one of us will have to go down the biogas digester. It's full of fermented manure. It smells, I don't know I've smelled it, but I don't know what it smells like; but it's safe, I can guarantee it! It will kill all the eggs during fermentation, so it's safe."

Xu Zhonglei continued: "I also bought anthelmintic medicine. No, you don't know. It's not easy to buy, and it's not available for sale online. In the end, I went to the town health center to buy it. Anyway, you have to take root in the countryside It’s over, I’m sorry if I don’t dig a big dung, you can go first, and we will take turns later.”

"Then... okay, can I say no?" Cheng Yuming said with a wry smile.

"What do you say?"

"I guess not."

"correct."

After hoeing the ground, digging a hole, spreading fertilizer, and watering.The seedlings are here, so it’s best to teach them quickly. The two of them had a hasty dinner, turned on the headlights, connected a water pipe from the well, poured it in a big bucket, and poured it with a small ladle. They didn’t have a good time until after eight o’clock in the evening. Take a break.

"Farming is really tiring. It's exhausting. It's much more tiring than going to work." Cheng Yuming thought he was strong. He dug the soil and poured water for several hours without stopping, and immediately collapsed on the sofa from exhaustion. Xu Zhonglei Call him to take a bath, but his limbs are sore and limp, and he doesn't seem to move.

"You're not used to it. You know how kind your elder brother is to you. I don't have any particularly tiring errands for you." Xu Zhonglei proudly walked around the collapsed Cheng Yuming, indicating that he was doing fine now.

"Didn't I see people shoveling and farming on TV, and they all turned on some kind of machine, kua, kua, kua, and it was done in three strokes? It's because you are too backward here. Why do you need to do things that machines can do?" People do it? This is a waste of social resources!"

"No, don't dream, don't think about it. The machines that can be used on the Northeast Great Plains are wolves in the north; in the paddy fields in the south, they are small paper, a breed of husky, which is not suitable for the environment and is useless." Xu Zhonglei is cold. He said, "Even if you crawl, crawl there and take a shower, or don't go to bed! Get up on time tomorrow, the land can't be planted in a day, come on, boy!"

"Little Paper, Boss, go to bed!" The two big dogs were quarreling around Cheng Yuming at first, but when the real master called, they immediately followed and went back to the bedroom to sleep together.Cheng Yuming was left behind, lying on the sofa, empty and lonely.

*

When working, you usually need to eat more for breakfast. Just a bowl of noodles and a few steamed buns cannot satisfy the need to burn energy quickly while working.Therefore, breakfast is an appetizer of pickled mustard, green vegetables, fried mushrooms, a bowl of pickled pork with pickled vegetables, and a large pot of rice. Of course, lunch will also be these, with soup at most.

Winter melons and pumpkins are easy to handle, and the environment they live in cannot be simulated indoors, so dig a hole and plant them in the backyard, and at most shovel a little coal ash mixed with chicken manure to provide them with the necessary potassium.

If it is indoors, the amount of work is too big.

Xu Zhonglei plans to use the wooden boards he bought last time to knock out a few large wooden boxes and place them on a wooden frame with planting lights installed on them. Put soil in the wooden boxes and put them in the original hydroponic room.All the tempered glass in the hydroponic room was shattered by the earthquake. Xu Zhonglei originally planned to grow and upgrade hydroponics to grow vegetables, but this great dream was all shattered into pieces and piled up in the garbage dump on the back mountain.

Now I can only imitate the old man's method of growing vegetables in the city, spread the soil deep enough in the box, then put the vegetable seedlings in, wait for the rain and the sun to come out, and then harvest.

So Xu Zhonglei dug out a large pile of wooden boards in the basement, the filter screens used to prevent water and soil erosion of wooden boxes, and began to use cutters, nails, and hammers to beat and beat the wooden shelves according to the size of the wooden shelves that had been made before.

The hydroponic room can only hold three rows of wooden shelves, and each row can only hold 2x4 boxes. There are only 24 wooden boxes in total. 24 wooden boxes.

This project is really huge, Xu Zhonglei has time, and the little Miaomiao who has just arrived at his family is afraid that he will die when he finishes knocking on the box.The dream is great, so let's make some wooden boxes for emergencies.

Cheng Yuming's small goal in the morning is to plant sweet potatoes and potato seedlings in the soil. Xu Zhonglei also told that the soil that has just been fertilized cannot be planted immediately, as it will "burn the seedlings", so it is best to plant them in a layer of soil and bury them shallower It is better; the potatoes should be buried in the soil completely, with the germinated parts facing up; the seedlings of sweet potatoes should preferably face in the same direction.

Cheng Yuming squatted on the aisle in the middle, as if comforting his good friend carefully, following Xu Zhonglei's instructions, tending to these tender green buds.

*

Ah, it's so beautiful, the straight lines, the right color, oh, the damn wood grain, every side is completely different!

Xu Zhonglei admired the two [-]cm long and [-]cm wide wooden boxes he knocked out. Oh, the things made by his hands are always so creative and artistic!

Then he dragged the cart, picked up the hoe, and went out to dig the soil...

There are four holes at the bottom of the wooden box for drainage. Two layers of filter cloth are embedded in the inner layer, which looks like a large flowerpot.The bottom is paved with two layers of pebbles, which are left over from the construction of the house this time, and then filled with coal ash, plant ash, and a piece of wood saved from cutting wood this time. A relatively uniform soil mixed with piles of wood chips.

This kind of soil is not as good as the flowerpot soil prepared by professional flower lovers, but it is still more nutritious and breathable.

The last thing is to lift the big basket of soil to the shelf, and then plant the seedlings that have been sent down.

These small seedlings are shallots, garlic, and ginger.There are not many seedlings, and after planting them like this, it seems that they only occupy a small area. Xu Zhonglei thinks that even if the spacing needs to be controlled, he still has to go to the vegetable garden outside, dig some shallots and put them in this wooden box. To fill these two wooden boxes, it was too much when I brought the seedlings back, but now I hate how little the seedlings are when they are used.

Farming is time-consuming. Seeing that Xu Zhonglei didn’t seem to be doing anything, but it was already one o’clock at noon after planting this pile of seedlings. Cheng Yuming went to dig the soil. It was a huge task to dig out the good and nutritious soil that filled 48 boxes. engineering.

Xu Zhonglei has to continue to prepare for the work of raising seedlings.

Most people think that planting vegetables is just throwing vegetable seeds into the soil and it’s over. In fact, some professional farmers know that the same breeding, uniformly transplanted vegetables and fruits are much better than directly sowing seeds.Xu Zhonglei has not delved into the underlying reasons, but seedling cultivation can effectively control the gap between crops and eliminate unqualified and unhealthy seeds, which is a certainty.

Xu Zhonglei has seen his grandfather raise seedlings. He usually prepares [-] to [-] pieces of long bamboo that is half his height. According to his height at that time, it is about [-] centimeters; prepares a small piece of plastic film; prepares chicken manure and duck manure. The plant ash mixture is mixed in the place where the seedlings are to be raised in the vegetable field; prepare all kinds of seeds that have been soaked in water for a day.

Sprinkle the seeds into the soil, make a small greenhouse shape with bamboo slices and plastic film, decide whether to tear off the plastic film according to whether it is raining or sunny, and after about five days, the vegetable seedlings will be green and shiny A large piece grows.

Due to the sufficient nutrition, the vegetable seedlings grew rapidly during that time. It only takes a few days for the vegetable seedlings to grow to a height of seven or eight centimeters. At this time, they can be transplanted.