The cut surfaces of the potato pieces have formed scabs due to the protection of dry soil, preventing them from rotting and molding due to moisture when placed in the soil.
The small sprouts on the potatoes had already grown to 4-5 centimeters long. Qiao An'an buried the sprouts upwards in the dug pit and filled it with soil. After filling it, she pressed the soil down to ensure that the sprouts could be exposed outside the soil.
Ya Ya, holding a water ladle, watered the potatoes that Qiao An'an had planted one by one, looking every bit the capable little helper.
After planting fifty or sixty potato plots, it was already completely dark. Even the last rays of the setting sun had disappeared below the horizon, with only a faint white tinge struggling to remain on the horizon.
Qiao An'an packed up her potato-planting tools and then carried a bucket of well water to the four wooden boxes.
We're getting ready to water the vegetables in the wooden box.
The Shanghai bok choy and baby bok choy that had formed flower buds have already bloomed. The flowers look very similar to rapeseed flowers. Strangely, not all the flowers are golden yellow. She actually found a few white flowers in the flower bushes.
Could it be due to different varieties?
However, these were not problems for Qiao An'an, as long as these cauliflowers could produce seeds for her.
Before watering, prune the leaves as usual.
Even though these Shanghai bok choy and baby bok choy have flowered, they still have a lot of leaves on their stems. However, these leaves are much smaller than before they flowered, and they taste much older and have a slightly bitter taste. But Qiao An'an doesn't think the size or taste is a problem. As long as they are edible and can provide vitamins, that's fine.
Moreover, she was very careful each time, picking only one leaf from each vegetable. In this way, she could get more than fifty leaves from fifty-odd vegetables, which was more than enough for making a bowl of vegetable noodles.
Moreover, picking only one leaf at a time should not damage the vegetables and flowers.
She took the scissors and started cutting the leaves of the bok choy and Shanghai bok choy.
After pruning the leaves, Qiao An'an called Ya Ya to water the vegetables. Ya Ya looked at the leafy greens in Qiao An'an's hand and pouted, "Vegetables again, Ya Ya doesn't want to eat vegetables..."
Qiao An'an was also helpless.
She also wanted to cook all kinds of nutritious and delicious dishes for Ya Ya, but given the current situation, she was powerless to do so even if she wanted to!
After watering the two boxes of greens, she glanced at the wooden boxes of scallions and garlic. The scallions were growing quite slowly; only a few had new leaves sprouting from the cut surface, while the rest still looked like they had just been planted, and two or three of them had even rotted.
It seems like they watered the scallions too much. Qiao An'an has decided not to water them today.
The garlic didn't grow very well either.
Very few sprouted.
Qiao An'an read in a book that garlic needs a lot of fertilizer, and many rural areas use toilet water for irrigation. However, they all use flush toilets. Even though there is no tap water now, she still carries well water from downstairs to upstairs to flush the toilet every day.
Looks like we need to find a way to get fertilizer, otherwise we won't be able to eat twice-cooked pork with garlic.
Perhaps chicken manure could be considered.
More than half a month has passed, and the chicks have grown to seven or eight ounces. All they do every day is eat and poop. Before, I saw that the soil in the newly dug ground was hard and I was worried that it wouldn't provide enough nutrients for planting potatoes, so I collected all the chicken droppings, fermented them, and then buried them in the ground.
The land already looks very fertile, and the potatoes have already been planted, so there's no need to add more fertilizer for the time being.
After that, you can put chicken manure into the onion and garlic planting box.
After looking at the scallions and garlic, she started looking at the tomato seeds she had planted earlier.
The tomato seeds have been covered with plastic wrap for several days. Due to the high summer temperature, the tomato seeds inside have sprouted and grown into small tomato seedlings about ten centimeters long.
Qiao An'an counted carefully and found there were about twenty small tomato seedlings.
However, these cherry tomato seedlings are distributed extremely unevenly, all crammed together. If they grow like this, they definitely won't be able to grow properly, and she'll need to intervene manually.
She peeled off the plastic wrap, dug out all the tomato seedlings with a small shovel, and then planted them one by one in the planting box at a distance of ten centimeters. She then watered each of the planted tomatoes.
Ya Ya saw her mother covering the tomatoes with the plastic wrap she had used to cover them before.
Qiao An'an smiled and stopped Ya Ya: "There's no need to cover it anymore."
Ya Ya asked, puzzled, "Why?"
Qiao An'an read in a parenting book that babies at this age love to ask "why" the most, and they want to ask you a hundred thousand "whys".
But this also shows that children have a strong thirst for knowledge.
The most important thing a mother should do is patiently answer her child's questions.
Qiao An'an took the plastic wrap from Ya Ya and explained, "Because the tomato seedlings have grown up, they can face the outside world on their own and no longer need Mom to protect them with plastic wrap."
Ya Ya listened attentively, then asked, "When will Ya Ya be able to face the outside world on her own?"
Qiao An'an looked at Ya Ya, who was looking very serious, and tapped her little nose, saying, "When you grow up to be as big as your mother."
"How can I grow up to be as big as my mom?"
"Eat properly and don't be picky about food."
"Okay then, Yaya will eat lots and lots of vegetables today!"
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