The neighbors on Guangming Road had wanted to exchange seeds with Chen Suwen when they saw how bountiful her vegetable garden was, with the mustard greens almost as tall as a person.
Now, seeing all the vegetables and fruits she picked processed, some dried and some pickled, I can't help but want to have the same ones.
Of course, Ye Yulian was the first to approach Chen Suwen, as Chen Suwen gave her an excessive amount of chayote and loofah.
She also wanted her family's vegetable garden to have so many vegetables.
"What kind of seeds should we get?" Chen Su asked, pointing to her vegetable garden. "Loofah or chayote?"
"Didn't you give me a few old chayote berries? I've already put them at home to sprout. Once they sprout, I can plant them."
"I also want some loofah, and I'll send some to my relatives as well." Ye Yulian has many relatives, and of course she plans to send some to her children as well.
Although there must have been loofahs in the places where her children were sent to work in the countryside, she believed that the yield of loofahs there was not as high as that of Chen Suwen.
"Want some snake gourd?"
Actually, snake gourds have a high yield, but Chen Suwen didn't like to eat them.
Not to mention how much it resembled a snake while it was still on the vine, Chen Suwen didn't particularly like its taste either.
She liked the taste of the loofah, but not so much the snake gourd.
Many people may think that snake gourd tastes similar to loofah, but she just feels that snake gourd has a smell that is more unpleasant than loofah.
She doesn't like to eat it.
But she does have seeds.
"Snake gourd?" Ye Yulian thought for a moment when she heard her mention this. "Give me a few seeds, I'll try planting one first."
Ye Yulian didn't mind the taste of snake gourd; what hadn't she eaten during the Great Famine?
Snake gourds are at least edible, and they taste pretty good. They're much better than tree bark and weeds.
Chen Suwen gave Ye Yulian seeds of loofah, snake gourd, green beans, tomatoes, and pumpkin and winter melon. The pumpkin and winter melon were the kind she had previously forced to grow, the kind that weighed several hundred pounds each.
In addition, she was given some seeds from leafy greens.
First comes mustard greens, then water spinach.
"Your water spinach is growing very well."
Actually, these vegetables taste better when stir-fried with more oil, but they are also delicious when served cold or pickled.
Ye Yulian learned this from people in the neighboring Guangxi province: remove the leaves from the water spinach and use the stems to pickle it. The resulting pickled water spinach is especially sour, crisp, and delicious.
"I'll send some to my Jianhong too. Even if she lives in a tenement building, she can still plant them in flowerpots, saving her money on groceries for a few meals."
Of course, most of the time, Ye Yulian would pick some vegetables from her own garden and send them to her daughter.
Her eldest daughter, Zhao Jianhong, did not go to the countryside; instead, she got married early.
As one of only two children who stayed with her, she treated this daughter very well.
"Jianhua's mom, how do you grow vegetables in the tenement building where Jianhong lives? There's nowhere to put the flower pots."
In those tenement buildings, where everyone lives crammed together, where is there any extra space to grow vegetables?
Even flower pots don't have much space to be placed.
Can vegetables grow well without sunlight?
Zou Cai'e stepped forward and patted Ye Yulian on the shoulder, "You can't replace all the vegetable seeds, otherwise we won't have any left to grow."
As she spoke, she looked up at Chen Su and asked, "Cunzhi's mom, do you still have any vegetable seeds left? I'd like to plant some too."
Chen Suwen smiled and said, "Yes, I have plenty of seeds here. What kind of vegetable seeds do you want?"
"Of course, it has to be vegetables that can be picked for a longer period of time."
She would change the seeds of fruits and vegetables, such as various melons and beans, so that she could harvest them one crop at a time when they bore fruit.
If we can harvest for a longer period of time, we won't need to harvest vegetables at home for a long time.
"By the way, Cunzhi's mom, do you have any Malabar spinach seeds here?" Zou Cai'e asked her.
"Wood ear fungus? Isn't that something that grows everywhere?"
Malabar spinach is a vegetable that some people like to eat and some people don't. It has a slimy texture, similar to okra.
Chen Suwen disliked okra, and naturally, she also disliked wood ear fungus.
She absolutely hates the sticky, gooey texture of Malabar spinach when it's cooked, so she would never grow it herself.
Of course, it's impossible to say that she didn't have any seeds. After all, as a wood-type ability user, even if she didn't like eating a certain food, she couldn't possibly leave no seeds for it.
"I feel that the Malabar spinach outside doesn't taste as good as the one you grow. The clump of Malabar spinach outside your house looks especially tender and delicious."
Chen Suwen looked in the direction Zou Caie pointed and saw a clump of wood ear fungus climbing over the wall outside her house.
She didn't actually grow the Malabar spinach; it was just that a child picked the fruit from someone else's plantation and played with it, accidentally spilling it outside her house.
The fruit of Malabar spinach grows in clusters and contains red juice, which many children like to play with.
When Chen Suwen was a child, she would juice the fruit of Malabar spinach and use the juice as ink; it was a beautiful red color.
Children love to play with it, and today's children are no exception.
The clump of wood ear fungus outside her house grew on its own, probably because Chen Suwen used her wood-based abilities to stimulate and nurture her own vegetable garden, and the plants nearby were also affected.
Therefore, they grow very lush and tender, and look especially delicious.
Unfortunately, Chen Suwen didn't like to eat wood ear fungus, and since her family's vegetable garden was so lush, her family never thought of picking wood ear fungus to eat.
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