Chapter 396 Dealing with the Watermelon Field

But the house is already fully furnished, what can these steel bars be used for?

If they had obtained it a year earlier, they could have used it when building the second floor.

"Take it back first. It will come in handy someday."

It took more than twenty days to remove all the recorded tiles, and together with some building materials such as steel bars and iron pipes, the breeding basement was half full.

Zhao Yeqing is considering whether to cover the walls of the bathroom and toilet with tiles. It will be easier to clean and maintain after that. The trouble is that when the south wind returns, water will drip everywhere.

Mu Xi: "If you don't paste it, when the south wind returns, the cement wall corners will grow moss and mold. As long as you don't paste the ceiling, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Zhao Yeqing's hand brushed across the cement wall of the bathroom. If tiles could be laid, the room would look a lot brighter. Otherwise, even if the lights were turned on, this cement room would always be dim.

"Then let's stick it up, but I don't think it's possible recently. We have to wait until there are no more earthquakes before we start. Otherwise, it will get bent by the earthquake right after it's been stuck on."

After the two of them had discussed it, they walked out of the bathroom. Zhao Yeqing went to check on the watermelon seedlings in the nursery. Almost all of them had broken out of the shells, and the green "Y"-shaped seedlings were desperately growing upwards. When the small buds turned into small vines and grew two leaves, they would be ready for transplanting.

Mu Xi felt that it was a bit risky to plant watermelons in the vegetable garden outside. At least a fence should be built around it, otherwise animals big and small might run into the field later.

Now the bamboo outside the backyard wall has grown into a thicket. If we want to make a fence, we can just cut it down. There is no need to run far to get bamboo materials like before.

Mu Xi planned to build a fence more than one meter high to enclose the entire vegetable garden, which would probably take up one-fifth of the bamboo forest in front of his house.

But this thing grows very fast. A bamboo shoot that I saw last night but didn't have time to pick has grown from more than ten centimeters to nearly two meters tall today.

While Mu Xi was making the fence, Zhao Yeqing went to the field and took care of the vegetable garden in advance.

It has not been long since I planted anything, but a layer of green grass has grown out again. Fortunately, the roots of these grasses are relatively shallow, so I just shovel up the grass and pour the soil outside, which can also clean up some of the grass seeds that have not had time to germinate.

The land where the turf had been removed had to be mixed with sandy loam. The half truckload of soil that was brought back last time was obviously not enough. The vegetable garden was nearly half an acre in size, so Zhao Yeqing drove to the lake and brought back two truckloads of soil.

Drive the truck full of sandy loam directly to the side of the vegetable garden, climb onto the truck bed with a shovel, and shovel the soil into the ground one shovel at a time.

It’s a pity that the truck bed cannot be flipped up, otherwise it would be more convenient to just dump it directly on the ground.

The minor earthquakes with slight vibrations increased from once a day to once every three or four days. After the two men finished building the fence and mixing the soil in the ground, there were no more vibrations.

The only crops that can be harvested in the grain fields at present are the sweet potatoes. It will take more than half a month for beans and sesame seeds. Not to mention the crops for seeds, which have to be left until the seeds are fully grown and mature before they can be picked.

Crops are generally planted just after the beginning of summer, and it is not until the autumnal equinox in early September that the crops in the fields are finally dried to golden color and are ready to be harvested.