After the Chinese New Year, the temperature gradually rose.

When Qin Rou got up in the morning to water the garden, she found several holes in her yard for no reason.

"Two naughty boys, you dug up mom's radishes again? !!!!!" Qin Rou was really amused. She wanted to play a radish defense game with them. These two little bad guys just liked to pull mom's radishes, as if they were possessed by rabbits, but they didn't like to eat radishes.

Naughty boys! The two little boys were

particularly guilty. Standing in front of their mother, the two brothers held hands and glanced at their mother from time to time.

Xiao Dumpling twisted his hand in his brother's palm and begged his brother to come forward and find a solution.

Zhou Zhou said, "I want to dig beans for my mother."

Dumpling followed, "Dig beans..."

Qin Rou: "..."

The beans they were talking about were potatoes, which also grow in the soil. Qin Rou took advantage of the coming of winter to plant some radishes and potatoes on the terrace and in the yard in batches. The radishes and potatoes here are different from the tomatoes that are happily bearing fruit in the yard. They need to be carefully cared for.

The temperature from November to February, March and April here is relatively suitable for planting potatoes and radishes.

Because carrots and potatoes are more suitable for planting when the temperature is cool, they can also be planted stubbornly at other times, but it is more troublesome, and the trouble may not necessarily produce a result.

Qin Rou has grown some strange radishes. Anyway, it is easy to encounter setbacks when growing radishes. How strange are the radishes she grows?

For example, the kind with lush green leaves, and then when you dig it out, the radishes underneath are only as big as a human finger. There are also some radishes with strange and coquettish postures, especially white radishes, which have very coquettish postures.

It can become a bumpy ginseng doll, and two small white radishes can be entangled together, one growing horizontally and the other growing vertically. After digging it out, it becomes a "cross-legged" human-shaped radish.

No wonder radishes are said to be better than ginseng? Maybe they have some spiritual energy.

The carrots grown here are either completely rotten and small, or they can grow into very sweet carrots. They taste very good, but the color is beautiful, but a little bit small, which is suitable for the whole family.

Qin Rou likes to eat carrots very much. She often grows some, and slowly, she has some experience in growing them.

She also tried to grow potatoes, which are called "beans" by Zhou Zhou and Dumpling.

Potatoes are very delicious food, fried potato shreds, sweet and sour potato shreds, fried potato chips, mashed potatoes... Compared with the annoying carrots, potatoes are a favorite food of children, but they are really rarely eaten on the island.

The climate here on Qiongzhou Island makes it difficult to grow big potatoes. Potatoes cannot tolerate high temperatures, and the yield is not high. Local islanders have never seen this thing, and only some people who come from the north grow a little bit.

For example, Qin Rou's sister Qin Mian likes to eat potatoes. She tried to grow a lot last winter. Qin Rou also grows a little potatoes to expand the recipes for the children.

The potatoes here are relatively not as delicious as the big potatoes grown in the high-altitude areas, and the yield of potatoes in the north is really high. In this era, people in the south have psychological shadows from eating sweet potatoes, such as sweet potato rice, while people in the north may have psychological shadows from eating shredded potatoes every day.

My brother-in-law Chen Mian and his son don't like potatoes very much.

When you come to the island, you don't have to eat sweet potato rice. Qiongzhou Island grows rice, which can be grown three times a year. Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be grown three times. Maybe in the third season, the fields will grow other crops. Now it is gradually promoting high-yield hybrid rice. The research and cultivation of hybrid rice is also carried out on the island.

In fact, if you really grow fast-maturing and high-yield rice three times a year, the taste will definitely not be good. It is not as delicious as the northern rice that is grown once a year. But at this time, don't be picky about the taste. It's good to have white rice.

Qin Rou used to live in Guangdong Province. Both Guangdong and Guangxi mainly planted two seasons of rice, which were divided into early rice and late rice. Early rice was harvested during the summer vacation. The harvest season was also called "double harvest" in rural areas. When I was studying a long time ago, some classmates would return to their hometowns during the summer vacation to help with the double harvest

. When they returned to school in September, their hands became black. In this era, there are also holidays, called "double harvest holidays", which are specifically for people to go back and help their families with the double harvest.

Because they can grow two or three seasons of rice, the rice yield here is relatively high in a year. Even in the 1960s and 1970s, some rural areas could eat white rice every day. Of course, it was only the rural areas with better water and heat conditions in the fields that could monopolize the advantage.

There is a big difference between villages. Although it is a county, in different towns and villages, if there are few people, many fields, and good water and heat conditions, people in the village can eat white rice every day. In some villages, there are many people, few fields, and poor water conditions, so people have to eat sweet potato rice mixed with sweet potatoes.

Now we are promoting hybrid rice. In a few years, everyone can eat white rice. Of course, the hybrid rice at first, although it is high-yielding, has a relatively average taste.

Just like the comparison between early rice and late rice, late rice tastes better. When Qin Rou cooks clay pot rice, she uses the more delicious late rice.

The white rice at that time was not the refined white rice of later generations. Many husks were not removed and still stuck to the rice grains. In some sense, it could be said to be a relatively healthy "coarse grain".

Qin Rou stared at the two children and said, "Let's dig some beans later."

"You go to kindergarten. I'm going to Uncle Zhang's house next door to ask for some radishes. We're going to eat radishes today, stir-fried radishes."

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling: "..."

Pulling out our own radishes, and there are still radishes from other people's houses, how annoying.

Why does Uncle Zhang next door still grow radishes?

The radish seedlings were all given by their mothers...

Qin Rou smiled proudly, hehe, you didn't expect that your mother would give all the radish seedlings to your Uncle Zhang to plant. The radishes in their family are growing really well, it doesn't matter if we ask for a few.

"Tsk, tsk..."

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling looked at each other. Their most simple wish at this time was to go to Uncle Zhang's house next door to pick radishes.

"Okay, stop tsk, let's go dig potatoes with mom."

Qin Rou took the two children to dig potatoes. The three of them dug out more than ten potatoes. The potatoes they dug out were super small. The slightly larger potatoes were only about half the size of a fist.

Pocket-sized potatoes, how many meals can they barely eat? ?

The big ones are used for cooking, while the small ones can only be washed and steamed directly, or made into halved potatoes.

After digging potatoes, I went to feed the chickens and pick eggs. The big hens at home gave me three eggs today, just enough for mother and her three children to eat one each tomorrow.

"Okay, go to the kindergarten, and wait to go home to eat radishes." Qin Rou wiped the hands and feet of the two kids. Compared with Brother Xixi and Brother Jingyi, these two kids are really disobedient. They

don't want to be leek babies, nor do they want to be radish babies.

They want to be - radish picking babies.

Xiao Dumpling said coquettishly: "Mommy, kiss me."

"Mommy, I want to eat radishes too." Qin Rou smiled and kissed him. After the kiss, she looked aside and said, "Brother Zhou Zhou, do you want to kiss me?"

"Kiss me."

After sending the children to the kindergarten, Qin Rou went to sow seeds again, trying to replenish the radish seedlings. After replenishing them, she knocked on the door of the neighbor's house. Teacher Huang happened to be at home.

Qin Rou said that she wanted to exchange potatoes and tomatoes for some radishes.

"Switch, switch, Xiao Qin, take more." Huang Xinying waved her hand generously, went home and got a lot of radishes for Qin Rou, and dug some fresh ones.

Really, her family's Zhang is good at growing all kinds of radishes and bitter gourds, and most of the radish seedlings are donated by Comrade Xiao Qin next door.

Compared to growing bitter gourds, Teacher Huang relatively hopes that Zhang Chengbei will grow radishes, whether it is carrots or white radishes. No

matter how good radishes are, they are better than bitter gourds. Although adults are not picky eaters, Teacher Huang really doesn't like bitter gourds! ! Unless

it is made into bitter gourd stewed with meat, she likes to eat the meat in the bitter gourd stewed with meat! !

"Xiao Qin, why don't your two children like to eat carrots?" Teacher Huang couldn't help asking.

Qin Rou shook her head: "I don't know, Lu Yan and I both like to eat carrots."

Huang Xinying sighed: "My son Dun Dun especially likes to eat carrots, I don't know who he looks like."

In fact, this is not a big deal. The point is that after eating radishes, their Dun Dun has a lot of smelly farts.

——Mom is worried.

Qin Rou: "..."

"I'm looking forward to sending him to kindergarten as soon as possible."

Huang Xinying looked at her with a hopeful look: "Xiao Qin, do you want bitter melon?"

Qin Rou: "...Yes."

It seems to be unfair to Teacher Huang to exchange bitter melon without exchanging radishes.

But Mr. Huang was so arrogant that he gave her a lot of bitter melons...