Era: Head of the Family Can Do Whatever He Wants

Chen Suwen, possessing the 'healing,' 'wood,' and 'fire' elemental abilities, is a hot-tempered and shrewish individual. She unexpectedly transmigrates into the persona of a...

Chapter 172 A Bountiful Vegetable Garden

After watching the Fu family mother and son enter the Wang family's courtyard, Chen Suwen lost interest in watching any further and returned to her own home.

"Mom, our strawberries are growing so well!"

Looking at the strawberries growing in the yard, Xu Huixue couldn't help but exclaim, "They're growing so well! Do all strawberries look like this?"

The reason is that their strawberry seedlings are almost as big as trees.

The strawberries grow in clusters with relatively large leaves, but even so, they don't take away much of the nutrients from the fruit, and the strawberries still grow in large numbers.

The strawberries are growing so well that they're overflowing the pot; each strawberry is the size of a baby's fist, or even bigger.

The bright red strawberries are very pleasing to the eye. Even though it's almost the end of March and April, their strawberries are still growing very well and bearing a lot of fruit.

"Yes, it is indeed beautiful." Chen Suwen picked a strawberry, rinsed it with water, and ate it.

"Pick some strawberries today and have your younger brother and sister-in-law make them into jam so they can last longer."

"good."

Chen Suwen glanced at the water ferns beside the pool; thanks to her special ability, these plants were thriving.

The water fern is growing very lushly. She divided up and planted some of the original few plants, and each time she picks from this small patch, she can make a dish.

Chen Suwen also dug up a holly leaf and planted it below the water flow near the base of the wall, which is the final direction of the water flowing from her pond.

Holly leaves can be used to pack food, wrap rice dumplings, and other things; in short, they are a very useful material.

There are also some fruits and vegetables planted in the yard.

"Suwen, I've been wanting to ask you this before, how come your mustard greens are so big?" Ye Yulian asked, looking at the mustard greens in Chen Suwen's vegetable patch.

The mustard greens were really big. One mustard green could grow up to Ye Yulian's chest. Do mustard greens that big really exist?

The mustard greens had large leaves and thick stems, but after observing them, she realized that they were not old at all; they still looked tender.

"How did you grow these? They're huge! One of these mustard greens could make a whole jar of sauerkraut!"

Of course, they pickle sauerkraut here either in small jars or in earthenware jars like water vats.

Such a large mustard green, one plant can fill a small earthenware jar.

Chen Suwen nodded, "More or less."

This mustard green is indeed very large. Whenever she wants to eat it, she only needs to break off three or four leaves, which is enough for one meal.

"Do you want to save the seeds? You can share some with me later." Chen Suwen's mustard greens were growing so well that she wanted some too.

"And your eggplant, isn't it huge too?"

"Your loofah." Ye Yulian walked to the loofah trellis, looked at the loofahs hanging down, and gasped.

"Isn't this too much?"

Chen Suwen smiled slightly. The yield of loofah was originally quite high. Before the apocalypse, the high-yield loofah could yield 10,000 catties per mu.

The loofah, which has undergone genetic evolution after the apocalypse and has been improved by people with superpowers, can yield at least 15,000 per mu.

The loofah she's growing now is about right, with a yield of about 13,000 to 14,000 jin per mu.

She has only planted one loofah seedling so far, so even if the loofah grows exceptionally well, there won't be enough for her to eat and waste.

It's okay if you can't finish it. Once the loofah gets old, you can keep the loofah pulp to use as a cleaning tool.

Whether you use it to wash dishes or pots, or even to scrub your body, it's all good.

Ye Yulian walked to the loofah trellis and looked at the loofahs that were over a meter long. "Where did you buy the seeds? They're growing so well!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, these loofahs should be enough for your family, right?"

Chen Suwen shrugged. "I'm tired of it."

The main problem is that the yield is too high. She doesn't like to eat loofah every meal without getting tired of it. She doesn't like to eat the same food every meal until she gets sick of it.

So she asked her daughter-in-law to send the loofahs to her parents' home and relatives, but there are still so many on the shelf now, so she said, "You should pick some to take home too."

Ye Yulian shook her head, "No, I haven't finished the ones you gave me last time, I don't want them."

Yes, this wasn't the first time Ye Yulian had seen Chen Suwen's vegetable garden. Chen Suwen had given her ten loofahs last time, and she still hadn't finished them all.

“Take some back and give some to your daughter-in-law, and also to your family and your husband’s relatives.”

Anyway, Chen Suwen was tired of eating this loofah. "By the way, pick some chayote over there and give them to your relatives and friends."

Chen Suwen not only grew loofah, but also chayote.

She mainly likes to eat the tips of chayote shoots. She thinks that stir-fried chayote shoot tips are really delicious, even better than the tips of winter melon or zucchini.

It's comparable to a pumpkin.

However, she prefers to cook pumpkin tips in soup, while chayote tips are best stir-fried.

She wanted to eat the tips of the chayote, but the chayote was already growing well, and she was tired of eating it now.

There's an old saying about chayote: "Plant one and the whole village will eat it."

So Chen Suwen's family planted one, and as a result, all the relatives and friends gave them away, but there were still many vines on the plant.

“You can dry chayote. Dry a lot of it and send it to your second son and his family.”

Ye Yulian also had children who were sent to the countryside to work. Although chayote is not a very valuable thing, at least it is edible.

"Or how about we send some mature chayote gourds to your second son and his family, so they can grow their own?"

Ye Yulian looked worried. "But my second son and his family were sent to the countryside in the north. Can they grow chayote there?"

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