Chapter 179: New Method
It’s about composting.
As for the issue of using coal slag to improve soil quality.
This needs to be put into practice, and the results will not be seen in a short time.
Lu Miao didn't ask for work points, she just said that if the team supported it, she would take people to do it when she was free.
Without work point rewards, the people who work for free together cannot be anyone else but your own people.
Lu Miao actually had some feelings in his heart.
If her participation can change the soil quality and help everyone solve the problem, she will feel a sense of accomplishment.
I feel that she still has strengths to play to, or areas where she shines.
It's not a completely useless vase.
Another thing is that He Hongjin was the team leader of the production team. The land problem was improved and grain production increased, so he was also proud of it.
This is the best of both worlds.
Lu Miao had a good idea, but for He Hongjin, public is public and private is private.
He wouldn't let Lu Miao take advantage of others, and of course he wouldn't let Lu Miao waste his efforts.
Especially since we know that there are a lot of people in the team who will not be grateful, then we should get the rewards we deserve!
If you don’t see results in the short term, then wait until you see results.
The people in the team were born and raised in the countryside and have been dealing with the land for half their lives. Even if they were blind, they could feel whether the land was good or bad just by grabbing a handful of it.
Finally, with the support of several uncles, He Hongjin made a decision. The reward system will remain the same as this time, and the specific situation will be determined at that time.
They all had no objections, and Lu Miao had even less.
That's all.
He Hongjin arranged for another young man to go to the town with Fu Jingyou to collect coal slag, while he himself took the young men and men in the team into the mountains to mine gravel.
Most of the people on the threshing floor had left, and the place suddenly became quiet.
After a while, Geng Xiaoyun and others surrounded Lu Miao and asked him questions:
"Kitty, what's with the cinders? What new ideas do you have?"
Lu Miao shook his head: "It's not really a new idea, I just use what I have on hand."
This is true.
There are mostly paddy fields in the south, and every time crops are planted in the paddy fields, they are deep plowed and base fertilizer is added.
The fertilizer at this time is mostly organic fertilizer.
Deep plowing and timely filling of organic matter in organic fertilizers can effectively maintain the fertility, breathability, water and fertilizer retention of the land.
If you compare any paddy field and any mountain, you can clearly feel the difference.
The areas that really need soil improvement are the mountainous areas where coarse grains are often grown.
Mountains are prone to soil compaction, and there are many reasons for soil compaction.
For example, the soil is rarely deeply plowed, lacks organic matter, or excessive chemical fertilizers are used, resulting in an imbalance in the physical and chemical properties of the soil.
Or the soil pH is too acidic, too alkaline, etc.
All could be reasons.
Learn to use the process of elimination.
In an age when fertilizers are already scarce, it is definitely not true to overuse chemical fertilizers.
So there are only a few points left.
Acids and alkalis are chemical changes, while hardening is a physical phenomenon.
It's just hardened, but crops can still be grown.
That means there is no need to consider chemical adjustments for the time being, and we only need to consider solving the superficial manifestations of the "physical phenomenon".
Soil is also a living thing, it needs to breathe, needs nutrients, and needs water...
First, deep plowing, then adding organic nutrients.
With the cows in the team, deep cultivation is not a difficult task.
Organic nutrients are organic fertilizers, and the compost we are currently making is one of them.
Crushed coal slag and regular crushed carbon, even in the form of fine particles, have a volcanic rock-like structure and contain multiple air pores.
The coal slag quenched by the fire is weakly alkaline, and the rainwater in the south is weakly acidic, so the probability of the land being acidic is greater.
When using coal slag in the north, you may need to soak it in water for one or two days. In the south, using it directly is not a big problem and it can also effectively neutralize the soil.
If you don’t mind the trouble, just take the charcoal slag and coal slag and mix it with the soil.
If you find it troublesome, you can just add charcoal slag and coal slag into the compost pile as auxiliary materials and ferment them together with dry materials.
Then spread it together with the fermented organic fertilizer.
Once the soil compaction problem is solved, a variety of biological relationships will gradually be established, and the simplest and most intuitive one is earthworms.
In the compacted state, earthworms cannot drill into the soil.
Once the compaction problem is solved, earthworms will appear and increase in number. Earthworm poop is a very good organic fertilizer.
By then, a self-circulating ecosystem will be formed within the land.
As long as you keep tilling the land before changing seasons and crops and add organic fertilizer, the soil quality will get better and better.
After all, it is not the kind of land with heavy alkalinity that yields no harvest. To put it bluntly, these things are just theoretical knowledge.
Farmers at that time had little literacy, let alone book knowledge and scientific theoretical knowledge.
Some questions may be difficult for them.
But for Lu Miao, who has been exposed to the new world and new things in the future.
As long as you understand the principles and logic, the operations are really not that difficult.
Lu Miao thought it was simple and not too difficult, but after she finished explaining the operating theory, Geng Xiaoyun and her group looked at her with shining eyes.
Ren Bingxin immediately gave a thumbs up.
Gu Ying patted her shoulder and said:
"Everyone has their own strengths. Lu Miao, I've noticed that your diploma and knowledge are truly solid, and your mind works really quickly."
There are things like acid, alkaline, and physical phenomena, etc.
These were all things they had learned in their textbooks before. Lu Miao could think of them, but they hadn't thought of them...
Gu Ying even secretly felt that the reason why Lu Miao looked spoiled was because he was not cut out for farming, but was born to study.
"How can it be so exaggerated?"
Lu Miao felt embarrassed by what they said.
"Okay, there's nothing else to do for now. Before the next composting, you all should go back and rest today!"
“Haha, okay!”
Geng Xiaoyun and the others were laughing and about to leave when Lu Miao called Yang Xiaojing again and glared at her:
"Careless! Don't be so rude next time!"
Yang Xiaojing was confused. "Why am I so careless? And so arrogant?"
"Lu Miao was talking about you tearing up that piece of paper. Some things are just said out of the blue, not something you really want to do."
Gu Ying took Yang Xiaojing's arm and smiled and said:
"You have to think about it. What if Lu Miao can't write those materials?"
Before, Yang Xiaojing’s mind was full of Lu Miao’s words “no work points”.
She thought that if she didn't want it, she would just give up, so as to avoid being coerced by others and getting no thanks for the effort.
After working so hard for so long and not even getting any work points, Yang Xiaojing suddenly felt justified and felt very proud. She got carried away without considering the consequences.
Yang Xiaojing reacted after being reminded by Gu Ying. She looked at Lu Miao nervously and asked:
"I think I should be able to write something that's pretty close, right?"
Otherwise, she would really be committing a capital crime under Heaven's law!
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