However, there's no rush.

Let's leave it at that for this year.

Wood ash, along with the fertility of humus, is generally sufficient to nourish this season's crops.

After planting the wheat, they began planting peanuts and soybeans.

Lin Momo plans to intercrop these two.

Two rows of peanuts, intercropped with one row of soybeans.

The seeds of the plant have just sprouted slightly. After being planted, they will sprout within three days, depending on the current soil moisture.

Finally, when she didn't have enough seeds to plant, she planted a few watermelon and cantaloupe seedlings in the remaining small patch of land.

The temperature in the mountains was still a bit low, so Lin Momo and Shi Guang cut some dry grass and covered it on the ridges to keep the seeds warm, which would also ensure a high germination rate.

While cutting grass, Lin Momo pondered whether to return the harvested wheat straw to the field this year.

It actually has quite a few uses, such as keeping crops warm in the field, starting fires, mixing mud, and making nests for hens, etc.

After finishing planting the two fields they had cultivated last year, the couple had some free time.

As for the newly reclaimed land, Lin Momo felt that the temperature was still a bit low, and thought she would plant it in a couple of days.

Sweet potatoes are planted using cuttings, and there are already sweet potato vines in the vegetable garden in the backyard.

The potatoes have already been sprouted, cut into pieces, and treated with wood ash from the stove. Once the weather warms up in a couple of days, they can be planted directly.

The land outside has just been planted, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the space are ready to be harvested.

After a day's rest, Lin Momo got busy again.

The sweet potato yield is good. The potatoes aren't as big as those sold in supermarkets, but the larger ones still weigh over a pound, which isn't small.

The harvest from about five-tenths of an acre was approximately three thousand catties, which is considered a very high yield.

There were also more than 2,500 jin of potatoes.

Similarly, the potatoes are relatively uniform in size.

During the digging process, the two men, due to their lack of experience, damaged quite a few things.

After picking out the damaged ones, the remaining sweet potatoes and potatoes were stored inside the small building.

Lin Momo hasn't thought of what to do with them yet; she'll think about it properly once she's finished with spring plowing and has some free time.

Looking at the remaining sweet potato and potato vines in the field, Shiguang couldn't help but feel troubled: "Momo, have you thought of what to do with these? Why don't you take them out to dry and use them as firewood?"

Under Lin Momo's influence, she became more meticulous in managing her time and even knew to dry vines for firewood.

Lin smiled silently and began to consider the question carefully.

As for burning firewood, not really. So many trees were felled last winter, and we still haven't finished chopping them all.

Once he comes across a piece of hard wood, he feels it's a waste to burn it as firewood. He thinks it's better to dry it and make furniture in the future. Now there are three such pieces of wood under the fence.

Let's keep it then, Lin Momo doesn't object, so we don't have to buy it later when we need it.

Throwing the vines and seedlings away would be the easiest thing to do, but Lin Momo still wanted to make good use of them.

After the sweet potato vines have grown some seedlings, you can pick the tender leaves and eat them as vegetables.

As for potato vines, she didn't think she'd ever seen anyone eat them before; rural people usually use them to feed their livestock.

By the way, there seems to be a small feed pellet machine in the space. It can process these things into pellet feed to feed chickens and ducks, or spread them in the soil to fertilize the fields.

This is also a way of returning straw to the field.

Although the soil in the vegetable garden is fertile black soil, it still needs to be fertilized appropriately so as not to deplete the soil's fertility.

Applying fertilizer will definitely help the crops grow better.

Lin Momo told Shi Guang about her plan, and he perked up: "Okay, where's the machine? I'll go move it out."

He had never seen such machinery before and was eager to see how it turned vines into pelleted feed.

"No rush, it's almost six o'clock in the evening. Let's eat first and then do it."

I've been so busy these past few days that I haven't had a chance to cook; I've been eating cooked food from the storage room in my space.

This meal was no exception.

After eating noodles for two days in a row, Lin Momo decided to have rice for this meal to cater to Shi Guang's taste as a southerner.

Dinner consisted of three dishes and a soup.

Stir-fried potatoes, green peppers, and eggplant; stir-fried loofah with eggs; mutton with minced garlic; and a small bowl of tofu and crucian carp soup.

The two had worked all afternoon, and the little food they had eaten at noon had long been digested. The smell of the delicious food immediately made their stomachs rumble.

Hungry people are easily fed.

Moreover, this dish is delicious, visually appealing, and aromatic.

Both of them enjoyed the meal very much.

An hour later.

In the backyard of the space.

Lin quietly reserved sweet potato seedlings for planting outside.

Time, carrying potato vines, stuffs them into the "buzzing" machine's inlet. After being compressed inside, each grain of feed falls from the outlet below into the basket.

The two didn't go to sleep until they had processed the vines into pellet feed.

They took a shower before going to bed. The two of them had been digging for food in the soil today, and were covered in mud and sweat.

You have to take a shower before you can go to sleep.

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After that day, Lin Momo and Shiguang rested for two days to recover their strength.

Two days later, they began planting the two newly reclaimed plots of land.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes are not demanding in terms of soil, so there is no need for intensive cultivation. Therefore, the land was not turned over again, and the sweet potato vines and potato tubers were planted directly on raised beds.

Since there wasn't much land, the two of them finished planting it in just one morning.

To keep the soil warm, another layer of dry grass was placed on the ridges.

That concludes today's farming task.

But we can't rest yet; we also need to start planting vegetables in the fenced yard.

Planting melons and beans around the time of Qingming Festival is in full swing.

The courtyard gate is a paved yard with blue bricks, covering an area of ​​eighty square meters, and beyond that is the vegetable garden.

The vegetable garden wasn't large, but it was slightly larger than the threshing ground, totaling about 100 square meters. It was divided into two sections, each about 50 square meters, by a walkway paved with fine sand and bluestone.

These two plots of land were also prepared before winter last year.

It has been cleared like the wasteland outside, and humus fertilizer has been added. I believe the crops planted this year will grow well.

Lin Momo plans to plant some varieties that are not available in the space garden, such as cucumbers, loofahs, gourds, yams, pumpkins, zucchini, peas, broad beans, celery, sunflowers, and other crops.

Loofah can be used in cooking, and when it's ripe, it can also be used to wash pots and pans. Only two plants are planted in this space, but some more can be planted outside.

Besides vegetables, the garden also features flowers and plants planted by the previous owner along the paths and the edges of the yard.

After a winter of preparation, they have now sprouted new buds and leaves, regaining their vitality.