Zong Weikang said, "Assistant Shen, if you have time, please help Zhiyi get some food during mealtime. There are too few vegetables, and I'm afraid she won't be able to grab them."
Shen Xingtang: "Vegetables?"
She paused and said, "There are not many vegetables. I can't even eat them."
Yuan Zhiyi felt something was a little strange: "What are you talking about? There's no need to fight for it. Just take your meal ticket to the cafeteria window and you can get it. One portion per person."
"That's right." Suddenly, another older woman sitting nearby sorting fish bones spoke up with a hint of sarcasm, "Without meal tickets, who can snatch anyone else's? We'd like to, but unfortunately, we don't have the meal tickets."
Zong Weikan raised the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard this.
It worked. This kind of woman has a big mouth, and it would be best if she could shout it out to the whole world.
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In the greenhouse on the back mountain, Uncle Zhang and the kitchen staff pushed a cart, carried bags of spinach onto the cart, laid them flat, and stacked them.
Looking at so many vegetables, he couldn't stop smiling: "This is enough to eat for more than half a month!"
A full 25,000 kilograms! This is the total spinach yield from the first four greenhouses, covering a total area of 8 mu.
Uncle Zhang's eyes were filled with the vegetable bags on the cart: "You guys have worked so hard. It takes a long time just to harvest so many vegetables."
Uncle Zhang's apprentice, Xiao Zheng, said, "Master, these vegetables are still so clean! You save water when washing them. Just wash them casually and they're clean."
Hydroponics does not require soil, so you don’t have to spend much time washing the vegetables when you get home.
After a natural disaster, their thinking is like this - if it can save water, labor and time, that would be the best and save resources.
After hearing this, Qiao Xuejun hurriedly turned back and warned, "Don't wash it casually. This spinach has been treated with foliar fertilizer. You can soak it before washing it."
She had stopped applying foliar fertilizer seven days before harvest, and the vegetables had almost been metabolized, but she still had to wash them thoroughly.
Uncle Zhang waved his hand: "Don't worry about it, I know!"
Qiao Xuejun must have trusted Uncle Zhang. Seeing that he understood, she didn't say much and began to tell him, "The pakchoy will be ripe in 5 days, the cherry radishes will be ripe in 10 days, and the second crop of spinach will be harvested in 15 days."
Uncle Zhang: "Okay, okay, okay."
With so many dishes, many new dishes can be created, which will also play a big role in improving malnutrition.
Uncle Zhang: "When will the tomatoes and peas be ripe?"
Qiao Xuejun later built four new greenhouses, one of which was fully hydroponic, mainly growing pea sprouts and spinach, with some other crops mixed in.
The other three are all grown in soil, with peas, soybeans and rapeseed planted respectively.
The pea and soybean sheds both have two layers of hydroponic racks planted with tomatoes, while the rapeseed shed has a single layer of hydroponic racks planted with kale.
Qiao Xuejun replied to Uncle Zhang: "Tomatoes and peas are both early, peas at least 2 months, tomatoes 3 months."
Compared with leafy vegetables, these tomatoes and peas need to bloom and bear fruit, have a longer development period, and require artificial pollination in the middle.
She calculated: "We can harvest two more crops of spinach, a month. Then the kale will be ready, and after three of these, the peas will be ready."
It can basically achieve an uninterrupted supply of vegetables.
Uncle Zhang: "Okay, that's great. I'm really looking forward to those tomatoes!"
Qiao Xuejun smiled and said, "It's still early. I'll take good care of it and try to make it mature sooner."
Uncle Zhang: "Okay."
Uncle Zhang pushed out four carts, but he didn't even take away half of the spinach.
After all, it weighs more than 20,000 kilograms.
After delivering the first wave, he came again with the slaughterhouse's trucks. This time there were a total of 8 trucks, and he finally delivered half of the goods.
Xiao Feng looked at the four old greenhouses that were gradually becoming empty and sighed, "It suddenly felt so empty."
When the green spinach grows lushly in the greenhouse, you can feel the hustle and bustle.
Qiao Xuejun: "It will grow back in 15 days."
When harvesting the first crop of spinach, keep the roots. You don't need to plant again. Just wait for it to grow again. The first crop takes 25 days, while the second and third crops only take about 15 days.
Planting spinach once can yield three crops in succession.
Xiao Feng asked, "Can you only harvest three crops of spinach? After the third crop, there won't be a fourth crop?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Of course. But it will bolt and become fibrous, getting older and older, and it will be hard and bitter and inedible."
So only three crops are harvested.
After filling up the last batch, Uncle Zhang is about to leave.
Qiao Xuejun stopped him and said, "Uncle Zhang, I'll go with you. I'm going to check out the pumpkin seed meal."
That's what Uncle Zhang left behind after squeezing pumpkin seed oil. It's the pumpkin seed residue.
Uncle Zhang: "Okay, let's go. I saved this for you. Is it for feed?"
Qiao Xuejun: "Yes. The roosters and rabbits are still being bred, so there's a high demand for feed. This pumpkin seed meal can also be used as feed."
Uncle Zhang: "It's just squeezed dry. Actually, there's not much."
Qiao Xuejun: "I know. That will work for the first period of time."
Moreover, pumpkin seed meal does not need to be detoxified and can be fed directly. For example, rapeseed meal produced later needs to be detoxified, and cottonseed meal also needs to be detoxified.
Pumpkin seed meal is relatively simple.
It was morning working hours and there were few people on the way back to the base.
The people on the Haibao side have also begun negotiations.
Occasionally, people would see Qiao Xuejun and his companions pushing carts into the base. They would all look at them curiously, and some would even ask directly, "Teacher Qiao, Uncle Zhang, are these carts full of vegetables?"
Uncle Zhang immediately replied, "Yes! All of it! Spinach! To replenish iron for everyone!"
Iron supplementation is also beneficial for correcting anemia, which is a common problem among some survivors.
The man then asked, "So we can all eat it?"
Uncle Zhang: "Yeah, didn't I tell you that a long time ago? Why don't you believe it?"
The man still looked at the car with shining eyes: "I believed it, but I didn't expect it to be so fast."
The vegetable team pushed their carts deeper into the area and headed towards the kitchen.
When they were about to reach the kitchen, they ran into three people.
"Boring, let's go and see the ice-harvesting team." This is Tang Qinghao.
Qiao Xuejun looked over.
Since the greenhouse was built and standardized by the Ministry of Agriculture, the staff has been complete and the management has been strict. Tang Qinghao, a kid, can't get in and rarely goes to the experimental fields in the back mountain.
Walking with Tang Qinghao were Yuan Zhiyi and Shen Xingtang.
How did these people get together?
"Teacher Qiao!" Yuan Zhiyi saw Qiao Xuejun and quickly walked over, greeting her with a smile, "Are you done?"
Qiao Xuejun looked at the three of them with a subtle look in her eyes: "What are you three going to do?"
Tang Qinghao simply replied, "We plan to visit the people in the ice harvesting team and see if there is anything we can do to help."
Qiao Xuejun: “…”
Tang Qinghao, the eldest young master, doesn't do any work. Yuan Zhiyi is similar, a young lady with a lame hand, and being able to sing is a great contribution.
Shen Xingtang...only knows how to cause trouble.
Tang Qinghao's eyes were immediately drawn to the convoy, and he approached excitedly: "Teacher Qiao, are these vegetables grown in our greenhouse?"
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