Chapter 189 Planting Ground
His somewhat chubby belly was hanging to the ground, but he was standing upright, and he tilted his head curiously when he saw her.
The dogs seemed to have never seen this animal before and looked at each other curiously.
She screamed in her heart, it's a groundhog! !
Zhao Yeqing: I want to rub it! So cute!
Before the thought even crossed my mind, I took a step forward.
The man behind him grabbed her arm and said, "Don't go. It's not safe."
Zhao Yeqing came to his senses at this moment, and stopped after regaining his rationality.
It is indeed unsafe, not because groundhogs will attack, but because they are natural carriers of the plague. If you encounter a groundhog with the plague, you will be infected and die on the spot.
The groundhog was the least fearful of people among all the wild animals she had ever seen. It just looked at the dogs and didn't come over, so it hesitated for a while before turning around and leaving.
As he walked, he looked back at her curiously.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to stroke it so much that his hands started to itch.
She squatted down, hugged Xiao Hei, who was closest to her, and started rubbing its head.
Today you are Wanwan Leiqing.
Only when she could no longer see the groundhog did she reluctantly walk back.
"Groundhogs hibernate, why are they waking up so early?"
Mu Xi asked doubtfully, feeling that it was not that simple.
Sure enough, within two days, before dawn in the early morning, the two were awakened by a not-so-violent shaking.
“There was an earthquake.”
After the last earthquake, it is obvious that this earthquake is not that serious. The degree of shaking is less than half of the last time. If it were in Sichuan Province, it would be so severe that you wouldn't even have to lift your butt.
To be on the safe side, Mu Xi pulled her up, put on his coat and walked out of the house.
After the earthquake was over, he picked up the small things that had fallen on the ground and said, "It should be caused by the recent rise in temperature and the melting of the snow."
The temperature this year is too low and the snow is very thick. When it melts, it turns into water and seeps into the ground, penetrating deep into the rocks and soil. The stability will be reduced, thus causing landslides or earthquakes.
They are still not at the epicenter, and the level they felt is estimated to be around magnitude 3.
It was still early, so the two went back to take a nap, and no more earthquakes occurred that day.
By the time the snow had almost completely melted, the two men had counted four earthquakes on the meadow.
This should be the reason why the groundhog ended hibernation early.
After the snow melted, the two of them started to get busy.
The temperature at noon is now nearly seven or eight degrees, and Zhao Yeqing plans to cultivate the vegetable garden first.
While waiting for the snow to melt, the two of them were not idle and built the wall around the vegetable garden.
Anyway, the mold had been made and was quite large, so Mu Xi and others adjusted the proportions and made it smaller, so the original two-meter wall became one meter.
Walking in with a hoe, Zhao Yeqing determined the location of each crop, divided the area, and started digging the ground with the hoe.
The two of them dug for the entire afternoon, and when there was only a little bit left to dig, Zhao Yeqing handed the finishing work over to Mu Xi.
First, take the decomposed manure and spread it on the well-turned soil.
She plans to give priority to growing potatoes.
After this period of experimentation, it was found that the potato seeds that had not been soaked in medicine before were only very few could be used due to improper storage methods. The germination rate of those mixed with seed dressing agents was still good.
She cut the potatoes into pieces and buried them in the soil.
The potatoes were planted in two rows.
A ridge is not short, about ten meters, and two ridges of potatoes are enough for two people.
After Mu Xi finished the work, he also made ridges on the land nearby.
Zhao Yeqing planted seeds in the place he had planned in advance, and first planted several kinds of cold-resistant leafy vegetables.
By the way, transplant the lettuce that was previously grown indoors.
Vegetables grown in pots are far inferior to those grown in the ground. No matter how much fertilizer and care are given to them, they will never be as strong as those grown in the ground.
In order to ensure a high harvest, the right solution is to transplant the seeds as soon as possible after raising the seedlings.
Zhao Yeqing wiped the sweat from the tip of his nose and said, "Once the rice can be planted, we can start raising seedlings of Solanaceae vegetables to be planted this spring."
Peppers, tomatoes, eggplants... She thinks most vegetables in the Solanaceae family are delicious, even potatoes are in the Solanaceae family.
After saying that, she suddenly remembered the piece of tobacco she found when she was killing aphids on wheat.
We said at the beginning that we would leave some for picking next year.
I don't know if they can survive.
Tobacco is also from the Solanaceae family.
Mu Xi covered the seeds with soil and asked, "Where do you plan to plant the rice?"
I went to the meadow before, firstly to see the animals on the meadow, and secondly to find a place to plant crops.
After looking at several places close to water sources, she was not satisfied with any of them as she thought they were too far away.
Zhao Yeqing patted the dust in his hands, put his hands on his waist and said, "Just plant it in front of the house."
She thought about it and decided that it would not be appropriate to plant the plants too far away because she would have to manage them, carry fertilizer over, and weed and look after them from time to time.
Not to mention the distance, what’s more important is the danger.
Animals are more likely to be encountered near water sources.
She thought of the huge python she had seen before, and the image was still lingering in her mind.
Just plant it at the doorstep and build a house here. The location is carefully chosen and there is a large flat land in front.
It is not difficult to get water. It is troublesome to draw water from the well at home, but there is another water source nearby.
When the temperature was still over 40 degrees, the two of them ran here to find water, and they found this house after seeing the water source.
It’s not far away. Just dig a hole to divert some water over, and then cut two bamboos to make a waterway, and the water will be diverted over.
Mu Xi suggested, "Let's build a fish pond next to the rice field, and make a hole in the middle. Normally, close the gate to store water for fish farming, and open the gate when you need to release water from the field."
Zhao Yeqing's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea."
The water used to raise fish still contains fertilizer.
The open space at the door was large enough to grow all the crops she needed.
The wheat and barley fields that were plowed over there before will not be wasted, and they will all be planted with pasture this year.
It's just right to plant more. You can use a piece of land to grow several kinds of forage grass. There's no need to harvest it in a hurry. You can plant them until they are fully mature and save a batch of seeds.
It’s getting dark, and it’s not convenient to go out and plan the size of the field now.
The two returned to the kitchen to wash their hands and cook. After eating, they returned to the room to draw blueprints with paper and pen.
"Let's plant rice and build fish ponds on the far right, closest to the water source, and plant wheat at the door?"
With the front door as the center, it is best not to plant plants that require water in the middle of the ground to avoid it being too humid. If water seeps into the door, it will become muddy and inconvenient to walk.
Glutinous rice, like rice, requires water in the early stages, so it should be planted on the far right, a little further away from the home.
After determining the positions of various crops, facing the door, from right to left, the fish pond on the far right is not included, the one on the right is rice, the one in the middle is wheat, and the one on the left is rapeseed.
The second row on the right is glutinous rice, and in the middle is corn field.
......What should I plant on the left?
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