Chen Suwen left the school with one hundred yuan in her pocket, and with nothing else to do, she rode her bicycle out of the city.
It's been a long time since I've been out here. There are lots of wild vegetables to eat in the spring.
Wild vegetables taste better when stir-fried with a little more oil, such as cauliflower and amaranth.
But Chen Suwen's family doesn't lack oil at all. They have a small oil press, and her wood-type superpower can grow soybeans, rapeseed, camellia seeds, peanuts, and other things that can be pressed for oil.
So her family doesn't really have to worry about wild vegetables being too bitter or unpalatable when they want to eat them.
In the fields not too far from the city, there are many wild-growing white cauliflowers, scientifically known as black nightshade.
They really can grow a lot in the fields. In the middle of the paddy fields in the south, after people harvest rice, the straw stalks are dried and burned, and a lot of black nightshade will grow.
White cauliflower is best eaten young; there's no need to wait for it to grow into fruit. Just pick the tender white cauliflower.
Chen Suwen carried a basket while bending over to pick white cauliflower. There were also wild chrysanthemum and prickly amaranth next to her. These wild vegetables were also quite delicious.
Chen Suwen didn't really like eating wild chrysanthemum greens, but Zhou Qingyun did, so she picked some.
As Chen Suwen walked, she couldn't help but want to do something. The super-large pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and corn that she had made last time had now been planted.
That's the good thing about the South; it doesn't snow, and you can grow things in winter.
After picking a basket of white cauliflower, wild chrysanthemum and amaranth, Chen Suwen sat on her bicycle, deep in thought. What should she do?
How about some fruit?
But it's not even April yet in March, so even if she wanted to eat longan and lychee, it's not the right season.
So, strawberries?
Strawberries are still available in the south in April and May, so it's only the end of March, and she can still get some strawberries to eat.
But since they already grow their own strawberries, there's no need for them to grow a whole bunch of strawberries outside.
Moreover, this fruit is quite fragile and can be easily damaged, so she really didn't want to create a large strawberry field outside.
So what other fruits are there?
Chen Suwen pondered for a while, then remembered that there was also a fruit called passion fruit.
Actually, passion fruit became popular suddenly for Chen Suwen. When she was young, hardly anyone ate passion fruit.
That is, the kind of wild fruit they ate when they were young, which they call "net-pocket fruit" in their local dialect.
This wild fruit, like passion fruit, is a vine-like plant. The leaves of the fruit are quite different from those of passion fruit, but the flowers look very similar.
The flowers of passion fruit are very similar to those of the "net-shaped fruit," except that the flowers of passion fruit look several times larger.
The inside of the fruit is similar; passion fruit contains many seeds, and so does netted fruit.
When I was a child, I loved picking these "wild fruits" that grew in the nooks and crannies, but I rarely see them now that I'm older.
After passion fruit became popular, Chen Suwen didn't particularly like it because the passion fruit she ate was a bit sour, and she preferred something a little sweeter.
Later, she gained wood-based superpowers, and the passion fruit she grew was a sweeter variety, tasting similar to the net-shaped fruit she ate as a child.
Of course, there are many varieties of passion fruit. Chen Suwen has some that are more acidic than sweet, some that are sweeter than acidic, and some that are purely sour or purely sweet.
Chen Suwen hung the basket of wild vegetables on the handlebars of her bicycle, then found a mountain that was only a little over a hundred meters high, and randomly chose a path to climb it.
Just like last time, she found a spot that wasn't particularly secluded, but also not very conspicuous, and took out passion fruit seeds from her spatial storage and scattered them there.
Driven by the wood-based superpower, the seeds fell to the ground and took root, while the tender seedlings struggled to grow upwards.
From a tiny seed, it quickly grows into a vine that is tens of meters long, with leaves and flowers appearing afterward.
Passion fruit flowers are really beautiful. When Chen Suwen was a child, she loved to pick the flowers of the net-shaped fruit, which looked just like passion fruit flowers, when she played house with her friends.
Beautiful passion fruit flowers bloom, followed by tiny fruits that quickly grow from the size of a bean to the size of a fist.
The passion fruit she planted were not small; some people's passion fruit was only the size of a child's fist, or even smaller.
The passion fruit that Chen Suwen grew was about the size of her fist, or slightly larger than Zhou Qingyun's fist.
When these passion fruits ripen, their appearance varies, including red, golden yellow, yellowish-green, and light green.
When these passion fruits are not yet ripe, there are some white spots on their surface. After they are fully ripe, those white spots fade and some even disappear.
Passion fruit also has a high yield. Before the apocalypse, its yield per mu was 5,000 jin. After the apocalypse, the evolved and improved passion fruit can yield up to 8,000 jin per mu.
The passion fruit that Chen Suwen planted is a variety that can yield about 10,000 catties per mu.
This time, Chen Suwen was unsure how many passion fruits she had planted, since she wanted to disguise them as wild ones, so she didn't plant them very densely.
The sparse passion fruit might only yield four or five thousand per mu, but that's already very good. Chen Suwen planted a lot of passion fruit around the area.
Passion fruit is a perennial plant, so in addition to the plants that have already grown into fruit-bearing plants, it also encourages the growth of some half-grown seedlings.
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