Chapter 359 Seeder 5.0

Those bugs could get into any hole, so every time they found a small gap, they would plug it with something or cover it with cement, but those little bugs could always find the tiny gaps that they couldn't see and get in, making it impossible to guard against them.

The mint grew very well this year. It grew from a small plant into a small mint tree. It is now as tall as her knees. The crown is quite large, estimated to be about 20 to 30 centimeters.

There were more than one mint plant growing so well, which was just right for her to use to extract essential oil to repel spiders.

Spray it on the eaves and near the window frames.

It’s hard to say about other insects, but it’s quite effective against spiders.

Zhao Yeqing is not afraid of small spiders of normal colors, but is afraid of those with super bright colors, or those that are very big and have hair.

Last time she saw a spider in the woods that was bigger than her open palm and covered with black hair. Mu Xi described it as if she had seen a ghost at that moment and her face turned pale.

After that, Zhao Yeqing seldom went into the woods, and Mu Xi seldom went there either, unless they had to get materials. The rest of the time, the two of them stayed at home to take care of the vegetable garden and the livestock shed.

After such a long time, the two finally got a handle on some of the current climate change characteristics and knew when it might rain and when it would be sunny.

It is not possible to use the common sense as before to infer that seeing dark clouds gathering may mean rain. Now there may be no clouds, and it may still be a sunny day, but a drizzle is falling.

After finally waiting for a long sunny day, the two spent two days harvesting and threshing the rice, and another three days drying the rice.

It is rare that there has been no rain for several consecutive days. It is not as fast as drying rice in the previous hot weather. Before, the temperature was over 40 degrees and it could be dried in one day. Now it takes three times as long. There was even a light rain in the last half of the day.

The two men put the rice into the drying room and dried it a little before putting it into aluminum barrels.

A portion of it was left over to make new rice.

The family had been out of rice for a month. In the past month, the two of them had basically been eating pasta or corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes as their staple food. Now they can finally eat the rice that Zhao Yeqing had talked about countless times.

"Look, the temperature is still as high as 36 or 37 degrees Celsius. It's not going up, and it doesn't seem to be going down. Do you think we should still plant in the fall?"

While Zhao Yeqing was talking, she was turning the fan in her hand, and rice bran was blown from the outlet to the ground. Mu Xi couldn't hear the rumbling sound clearly, so she repeated it again, and then Mu Xi could hear it clearly.

"I think we can give it a try. Instead of planting rice, we can plant corn and wheat. If the weather gets really cold, we can harvest corn as silage. Wheat is more resistant to cold, so we won't end up with nothing."

In fact, the food stock at home is enough for two people to eat for more than half a year, but after experiencing the long polar night last year, we almost ran out of food, and I am always worried.

"Okay, let's try out your Seeder 5.0 and see how it performs."

Now the rapeseed is the only field left to be harvested in the grain fields. All other fields have been harvested. The wheat and corn were harvested the earliest, and the weeds in them are already as high as calves.

If the two want to plant, they have to clear the land first. This year, under the condition of ensuring food rations, Zhao Yeqing, who plays a free-spirited role, clapped his hands:

"Just clear the corn field and plant wheat in the rice field to avoid the trouble of weeding again. Didn't we say before that we shouldn't plant a single crop? It's a good opportunity to change the flavor of this field."

If it were in the past, Zhao Yeqing would definitely clear out all the weeds that robbed the soil of nutrients in advance for next year's harvest.

Now she doesn't want to set such high standards for herself. As long as she has enough to eat, it's fine. As for the wheat field full of weeds, if she really can't stand it one day, she can just throw two sheep in there and maybe it will be cleared up.

Perfect.

The task of clearing the cornfield was given to Mu Xi, while Zhao Yeqing drove the ox with the iron plow to slowly plow the rice field.

It rains from time to time in today's weather, and the soil is not dry, so it is very easy to turn over. A large piece of land can be plowed in less than half a day, then sprinkled with lime and dried in the sun for two days.

Zhao Yeqing spread the lime particularly carefully this time. Compared with before, it is more necessary now to sterilize and kill insects on the land.

The crops left for seeds have basically remained in the state of adapting to the previous climate, and it is not known whether the crops sown this time can adapt to the current hot and humid environment.

The yield of spring-sown crops has basically not decreased and has even increased compared to the previous two years. This is mainly because the climate was relatively mild at the beginning of this year and the crops gradually adapted to the high humidity environment, so they were lucky enough not to encounter diseases and pests.

Zhao Yeqing did not use the seeds saved from the previous two years. Instead, he planned to sow this year's newly harvested wheat and corn seeds, hoping that these seeds could adapt to the current climate like their parent plants.

After the land is sterilized, sprinkled with newly decomposed manure and tilled again, it is ready for sowing.

The 5.0 version of the seeder has added a lot of small designs, including a forward-moving wheel in the front and a pressing wheel and a soil covering device in the back, which can cover the soil after sowing the seeds.

When the front wheel rotates, it drives the axis inside to roll. When rolling, the seeds will fall into the ground through the seed outlet according to the adjusted size of the seed outlet.

Zhao Yeqing put the wheat seeds in it and pushed the wheel forward, looking back all the way to check the sowing situation. He found that the sowing rate was basically above 90%, with occasional empty sowings, which might require replanting later.

However, this quantity is much faster than directly sowing by bending over manually. It took Zhao Yeqing less than two hours to push the machine and plant a whole field of wheat.

If it were before, both of us would probably have to plant for a whole day and be exhausted with backaches.

The soil is relatively moist now. After pushing the seeder roller forward for about 20 minutes, the wheel will be stuck with soil. The soil must be cleaned off before work can continue.

If it weren't for this reason, the sowing speed would be even faster.

Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with this machine. According to the current working efficiency of this tool, she can cultivate five acres of land in a day by herself!

Otherwise, why is it said that the use of tools is a sign of the progress of human civilization?

It took Mu Xi less than two hours to plant all the corn with the seed drill.

"It's OK, but the wheels don't move very well. I'll go to the tourist area tomorrow to get some old tires and modify it."