Chapter 241 Excavation
Because the top will be capped with a PC board, there is no need to dig too deep.
The height of the planting light is also important. It cannot be too high, otherwise it will affect the effect. It cannot be too low, otherwise it will not illuminate the entire plant and the light will burn the leaves of the plant.
This kind of grow light is different from ordinary LED lights. Its spectrum is very comprehensive. Zhao Yeqing turned on several grow lights and found that they target different types.
Some are purple colored lights, which are beneficial for fruit and vegetable plants to turn red. They can be used for tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, dragon fruits, etc.
Or when planting succulent potted plants, use light to increase the coloring speed of certain succulents that need coloring.
There was a family in the community where she lived before who raised succulents and used lights. The windows turned purple-red at night, and people who didn't know why thought it was some illegal business.
She plans to use a full-spectrum grow light, which is like a hexagonal warrior. The light is normal light with a slight purple-red tint, and can be used for all types of vegetables and fruits.
So in addition to being convenient for people to pass through and work, the height of the underground must also fit within the range of the planting lights. After she turned off the lights in the room and drew the curtains, she turned on the planting lights and asked Mu Xi to hold them up, confirming that a height of about two and a half meters was more appropriate.
The passage leading to the basement was dug and no water seepage was encountered during the process, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The next step is to bring the red mud back and burn it into bricks.
The two considered whether to use the same cement boards as the previous fence to build the wall, but they were worried that it would not be able to bear the weight, so they decided to use red bricks to be on the safe side.
After Mu Xi brought back the red mud, he gave the task of making red bricks to Zhao Yeqing, who dug the basement first.
After the basement is dug, it needs to be dried in the sun for two days to sterilize it.
It took Zhao Yeqing three days to make all the red bricks. Mu Xi finished digging the basement in two days. He mixed the excavated soil with wood ash to make mud to build the wall.
Cement would be more solid, and there was very little lime left at home. He thought that the red bricks could still be supported by the earth wall next to them, and it would be enough to reinforce them with mud.
All that was left was to chop back the wood for the pillars. After Zhao Yeqing finished making the red bricks, he took the job and went out carrying his axe.
Mu Xi also had to weld the steel pipes at home.
There are not many stones underground in the meadow area, only yellow-black soil that has accumulated over the years.
The two men propped up the pillars, built the surrounding brick walls, and while waiting for the mud on the walls to dry, they prepared the soil for planting.
The land in the basement has been plowed and the soil has been completely dried after being exposed to the sun for a few days. Fertilizer and lime are sprinkled on it, and the crops can be transplanted in when the walls are completely dry.
The temperature at noon has now reached 39 degrees, just short of breaking through the 40-degree mark.
Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to bring the frozen soy milk ice cream from the refrigerator. She was sweating profusely and just lay down on the straw mat on the floor of the room to rest.
Mu Xi gave her the ice cream and also took out the small basin of water that Zhao Yeqing had frozen in the refrigerator.
Now it has turned into a small basin of ice.
The small basin was made of stainless steel. Zhao Yeqing took a small knife, opened the door to let the sunlight in, and gently scratched the edge of the basin with the knife under the sun. A whole piece of ice in the shape of a small basin was successfully demolded.
She turned off the fan, took out the air conditioner, broke the ice in her hand into two pieces on the ground, and put them in the small box under the air conditioner.
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The wind from the air-conditioning fan blew out the coolness of the ice cubes in the box. Zhao Yeqing had the soy milk ice cream slowly melting in his mouth, and a cool breeze was blowing beside him.
"...Finally I'm alive."
The power consumption of this air conditioning fan is about the same as that of the planting light. If the two are combined and both are only turned on for ten hours, the power consumption is just over one kilowatt-hour.
It's still worth bragging about.
The sun is so hot right now that the mud has dried up by noon or afternoon.
The two placed the PC board and moved a tomato and a strawberry into the experiment.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, at least not all at once.
It is better to be safe and use two more pampered plants for the experiment first. If these two can survive, then the other plants will not be a problem.
Transplanting should be done before sunset, so that the plants have one night to adapt and then greet tomorrow's sun.
Two ventilation holes were made in the basement to ensure that the plants inside could breathe. Mu Xi also dismantled an exhaust fan and installed it on one of the air outlets.
The basement is small, so he picked the smallest one that is enough for his needs. He runs it three times a day, each time for an hour, and the electricity consumption is negligible.
The other air outlet is a natural ventilation outlet, which can be kept open to maintain daily ventilation needs.
The two men opened the vent before walking out of the basement, and only went to water the ground after confirming that it was normal.
Now the fields have to be watered in the morning and evening, especially the rapeseed fields, which consume a lot of water.
The earliest rapeseed has begun to produce pods, and the bee colony's only source of nectar is alfalfa. Zhao Yeqing checked the pod-forming situation in the rapeseed field and found that it was affected by the heavy rain as expected.
Many rapeseed plants failed to pollinate successfully, and the yield is estimated to be reduced by more than half.
Mu Xi hated to see her looking sad, so he tried to comfort her, "We are replanting now, it's okay, I will go pick the tea seeds and extract the oil after a while."
Things had already happened, and there was nothing anyone could do about the rain. She could only accept her fate and pick all the rapeseed without pods in the field with Mu Xi.
The rapeseed is now quite old, and there is not much edible part, just the few leaves in the middle and the stem.
Most of the rest was thrown into the cattle and sheep pens as feed. Rapeseed stalks were not easy to digest, and she was too lazy to chop them up, so she could only feed them in small amounts.
Cows and sheep don’t like to eat rapeseed very much, but chickens like it more.
You have to feed the fish more diligently in the summer so that they can grow bigger. Now is the season for rapid growth.
Usually she would feed some lettuce and cabbage leaves, carrots would also work. She threw rapeseed in, and the fish that had been sinking to the bottom of the water to cool off slowly floated up, ate a few bites and then stopped eating.
Quite a picky eater.
Zhao Yeqing's gaze moved to the grape trellis above the fish pond. Many small white flowers had bloomed on it. The flowers were hiding under the grape vines to avoid direct sunlight.
The grape flowers bloom on the branches that are about to bear fruit. The branches look like a bunch of empty stems with the fruits picked off, and the flowers are pitifully small.
From time to time, two bees fly over, as if they can't land because the flowers are too small, as if they want to eat but don't know how to start.
These two silly bees, grapes are self-pollinating, so they can't eat them no matter how hard they try. They can wait until the grapes are ripe and then eat some of the sweet juice.
She estimated that the grapes were about to bear fruit, and if the weather wasn't so hot, the yield would have been even higher.
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Three days later, the transplanted tomatoes and strawberries also reached the inspection period.
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