Chapter 426 Throwing Rice Seedlings
This is an aphid, one of the pests that Solanaceae plants cannot escape. It will suck the sap of the plant. It doesn’t look disgusting, and it is not a very difficult pest to kill, but you can’t just leave it alone. Over time, there will be more and more of them, and the plant will slowly wilt.
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This thing had appeared in previous years when it was planted in the basement. At that time, the environment was closed, and Zhao Yeqing found some ladybugs and put them in it. Ladybugs are beneficial insects that will not harm plants, and they love to eat these fresh and delicious aphids the most.
Aphids are food for most insects, but now it is not a closed environment and it is difficult to handle, so we can only find some medicine to kill the insects.
After much thought, I think tobacco leaf water is the simplest and most convenient. Wind oil and detergent diluted with water can also kill insects, but if the ratio is not right, it is easy to burn the seedlings. Tobacco leaves are more gentle.
If the pepper seedlings are infested with insects, tomatoes and eggplants will certainly not be immune. Similarly, spray them with tobacco leaf water and sprinkle some in the soil a little away from the roots and stems, hoping to repel the insects.
Crops like pumpkins are relatively convenient and can be planted directly next to the fence.
Vines grow particularly fast. The pumpkin has only been planted for a short time, almost the same time as the pepper seedlings, but now vines more than one meter long have grown and have wrapped around the bamboo fence several times.
Also circling are the wisteria flowers in the small garden. Now is its flowering season. Clusters of wisteria flowers hang down from above, and the petals are plump and pleasing to the eye. The flowers of this season are blooming, allowing the bees in the entire forest to happily fill their empty hives after the winter.
The originally planned scene of sitting under the wisteria corridor and enjoying the flowers and drinking drinks did not come true. The bees were so hardworking during the flowering season that Zhao Yeqing didn't even dare to get close.
Mu Xi replanted the vegetable garden outside with sweet potatoes. When Zhao Yeqing thought of the vegetable garden outside, he remembered the melon and bean paste that he failed to make last year, and he felt depressed for a few minutes.
I won’t plant so many watermelons this year. I’ll just plant a few along the fence in the yard.
The citrus tree was already taller than the wall. Zhao Yeqing had planned to trim the branches to prevent snakes and the like from crawling in with the help of the branches and leaves. But when he thought about the wooden fence that had been built outside and how it would be difficult for animals to get in, he just roughly trimmed the drooping branches and leaves.
The banana trees have started to bear fruit this year. Originally, there were only two trees planted in the yard, but the roots underneath spread out and many seedlings grew. Zhao Yeqing left two seedlings and dug up the rest and planted them outside the wooden fence.
I estimate that the two largest trees at home will bear fruit in a month. Once the fruit is ripe, the tree will no longer bear fruit. The two seedlings left behind are for us to eat bananas in the next season.
Zhao Yeqing really likes eating bananas. They are sweet and filling. If he can't finish two large bunches of bananas, he can make them into dried bananas and banana jam.
The dried bananas in Yunnan Province are very delicious. They are not hard and dry, but slightly moist. They are soft and sticky and can be eaten after being dried half-dry. They are also very healthy as snacks.
As I thought about it, the time of waiting for the bananas to ripen seemed a little more unbearable.
Too greedy.
However, the asparagus planted last year is almost ready to be eaten now. They grow straight out of the ground one by one. They have no leaves, just a stalk sticking out of the ground. They look very special among the green leaves.
It does not always be without leaves. After the first crop is harvested, a few spring mother stems are left and then leaves can be seen. The leaves that grow are as thin as those of asparagus fern and are quite beautiful.
Zhao Yeqing measured the lengths and cut off the fastest growing ones. Judging from their growth rate, he could still have a lot to eat when he harvested the summer bamboo shoots in the summer.
Wash and cut a few asparagus into sections, fry them in a pan with oil, sprinkle with salt and you can eat them. It would be disrespectful to add too much seasoning to fresh spring vegetables.
This amount is not enough for a meal, so Zhao Yeqing fried it and ate it as a snack. It is fresh, crispy and tender, but it will no longer be a spring vegetable after one day.
Tomorrow is the beginning of summer.
Grain Rain and Beginning of Summer are close to each other, but within half a month to twenty days.
Grain Rain, Grain Rain, it rained for more than ten days as it should, and only stopped when it was close to the beginning of summer.
Fortunately, it has stopped now. The wheat will turn yellow soon. If it still rains at that time, the wheat that has grown for three or four months will become moldy and rot in the field.
There is a period of rain after the beginning of summer. Zhao Yeqing estimated that the wheat would mature around that time. This season's wheat was planted earlier to avoid the rain during that period. He hoped that nothing would go wrong.
The time before transplanting rice seedlings was relatively free, and the same was true after transplanting. Before transplanting, the two went to the woods and dug up a lot of limestone. Zhao Yeqing tried to call the names of a few leopards in the woods, but after waiting for a while, there was no response.
The two had no choice but to go back home.
The limestone that was dug up was intended to be used to pave the broken tile cement floor in the backyard that was planned from the beginning. Before paving the cement floor, the weeds in the backyard had to be removed first, and after the cleanup was completed, the rice seedlings could be planted.
The treatment of seedlings is the same as that of dry seedling cultivation. Pull them all out and put them in a wooden box. The green seedlings are arranged neatly inside. After all are pulled out, the seedling beds are flattened and water is added to the rice field again. When the water level is shallow enough to cover the feet, the rice seedlings can be planted.
Planting rice does not necessarily have to be done by transplanting rice seedlings. Zhao Yeqing had seen villagers at the foot of the mountain using the method of throwing seedlings before. However, that method is more suitable for seedlings grown by the dry seedling raising method, which have thicker root systems. Seedlings grown by water seedling raising are not thrown evenly.
The seedling throwing method only requires you to stand in the field holding the seedlings and throw them into the rice field one by one. The process is simple and quick, and does not require you to bend down to work, which saves a lot of time and effort.
But there are also some bad aspects. Throwing seedlings requires a good feel, and neither of them is proficient in farming. The seedlings they throw down are easily inconsistent in depth and unevenly, with some places dense and some places sparse, making it difficult to rework later.
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Walking barefoot into a field full of seedlings to replant or thin out the seedlings can easily damage the nearby seedlings, so it is better to just plant the seedlings honestly.
Although transplanting rice seedlings is a bit tiring, it is easier to manage in the later stage. The ventilation and light will be more even, and it will be less likely to breed pests and diseases. In this special period when nothing can be bought, the biggest fear of farmers is that the crops will get sick.
Anyway, they both have a lot of time, so they would rather be a little tired than take the chance and gamble that the rice will not get sick.
When Zhao Yeqing first started farming, he felt it was hard work, but now that he is used to the work, he doesn’t feel that tired anymore.
Two people work, they only need to feed two mouths, and there are four dog mouths that can't eat much. They work all day from morning to night and plant all the rice and glutinous rice.
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