After comforting the triplets, Liu Yun's social media account experienced another great success.
The main reason is that Yu Feng helped her collect fruit trees before. She had seen online that digging up the underground tubers of banana trees and then dividing and transplanting them can cultivate seedlings.
She asked Yu Feng to dig some up and send it to her. After being transplanted through spatial division, it unexpectedly survived and grew very well.
As the banana trees grew larger, many new shoots sprouted near their roots.
She knew that there was a method of growing bananas called sucker cultivation, which uses the sword buds and buds to cultivate and propagate them. However, she didn't know if the newly grown banana seedlings could be cultivated. Considering the characteristics of the space, she gave it a try.
When the seedlings grew to about 30 or 40 centimeters, she dug up the soil around their roots, cut them off from the mother plant, and, fearing they wouldn't survive, soaked them in lake water from her space and then coated them with a lot of wood ash before finally planting them, all near the lake.
Unexpectedly, all of them survived. You know, Yu Feng sent over seven or eight tubers, which she divided into more than ten pieces. Later, she transplanted fifty or sixty seedlings, and now most of them have survived. The ten or so larger ones have been bearing fruit for two years now, and in a while, around August or September, we can harvest some to eat. Bananas did exist in this era, but they were rare and very expensive.
Because the banana tree is a fast-growing, giant herbaceous plant, it doesn't bear fruit for many years like other fruit trees. Banana trees typically bear fruit within a year of planting and then stop bearing fruit. Therefore, to ensure a continuous yield, the old plant needs to be cut off after fruiting, and new seedlings need to be cultivated.
When bananas are harvested outside, the banana trees grown from those seedlings will also bear fruit. In the past two years, we have transplanted any good seedlings we see, and by next year we should be able to produce bananas all year round.
The mangoes are ready to eat now. Actually, I had the lowest hopes for the mangoes because Yu Feng sent them unripe ones to prevent them from rotting. She even soaked the seeds from the pits in water from her spatial lake overnight before planting them, fearing they wouldn't survive. After planting, she frequently watered them with the lake water. You know, she had never taken such good care of any of the fruit trees before. Fortunately, her hard work paid off, and more than twenty pits sprouted and survived. These mango trees were the first ones she planted, almost four years ago, and now they are finally bearing fruit, with quite a few on each tree.
The most abundant and fastest item was pineapple. In fact, at first she planned to ask Yu Feng to send her some to try and see what would happen. Unexpectedly, she encountered pineapples at the market one day, so she went to the villager's house and bought a lot of them, and also cut a lot of pineapple leaves.
Remove the bottom leaves from the top of a mature pineapple to expose the root point. Soak it in the lake water of the space for four or five days. Remove the pineapple leaves from the fruit, keeping the stem intact. Remove the outer leaves and soak it in the lake water of the space for a week. Then, shallowly insert the seedling into the soil and water it frequently to keep the soil moist.
Although the planting method was not quite right, most of them still survived.
Later, Yu Feng sent her quite a few more, which she planted and many of survived. Then she planted even more in the same way.
It took more than three years for the fruit to ripen, but the two types of fruit were somewhat different. The local pineapples were smaller, more sour, and crisper. The ones Yu Feng sent were sweeter, softer, and larger.
Yu's father likes the local sour and crunchy pineapples, while Yu's mother prefers the kind that Yu Feng sends over. Liu Yun also prefers the sweet kind, and Yu Qian and his triplets love everything.
The bananas ripened very quickly, and before long most of them turned yellow. Liu Yun was so busy that she forgot that the ripe ones had already fallen off the trees in just a few days. Fortunately, there were many ripe ones this time, otherwise she would have been heartbroken.
Since it's only June, the bananas outside aren't ripe yet, so Liu Yun can only eat the fresh bananas in her space.
However, peeling and slicing the bananas and drying them on a shelf to make banana chips is still an option, since Yu Feng has sent them dried mangoes and dried bananas before.
However, the mangoes were already ripe to eat, but they couldn't just be taken out so casually. They had to be wilted a bit before being brought out. There were very few mango trees growing here. Although you could occasionally see some, they were all wilted. Bringing out such fresh ones would only arouse suspicion.
Next, the family had even more snacks. These weren't just for the triplets; Mr. and Mrs. Yu loved them too, especially Mrs. Yu. Ever since she had lemon honey water with Liu Yun once, she'd been making it almost every day. Seeing how much Mrs. Yu enjoyed it, Liu Yun prepared good quality for her. Anyway, there were plenty of lemon slices in the space; since she didn't dare use fresh lemons and didn't eat the fish, most of them were made into lemon slices. Currently, there are three lemon trees, and she's dried most of them. As for honey, she doesn't even know how many beehives there are.
The first time I harvested honey, I was too scared to do it, so I used smoke, which killed all the bees in the hive.
Even now, she doesn't know how to or dare to take honey from the beehive. She always stuns the bees with smoke before cutting the hive and taking it home for her parents to collect the honey themselves. As for stunning the bees, she still does it whenever she feels like it.
Before opening the hive, we smoke it first. Whether the bees die or not is up to us. If they die, we just buy another one. If they are stunned, we cut the hive directly. If they are not stunned, we continue to smoke it until they are stunned or die.
During this period, there were too many banana trees, and they ripened too quickly. Bananas had to be harvested every two weeks. To harvest the bananas, the banana juice had to be chopped off before they could be picked. After chopping, the buds next to them would grow on their own and didn't need any care. But there were so many bananas that she couldn't possibly eat them all by herself, and even if she made banana chips, she still couldn't finish them all. During this time, the fish, chickens, and ducks in the space were eating very well, with all kinds of fruits and melons every day.
For a while, I ate mostly wild strawberries, cherries, and pineapples, and I would bring them home every few days.
During this period, the food we eat the most is watermelon. It's watermelon season now, and Liu Yun brings a watermelon home every two days, a mango every week, and occasionally a pineapple. We can't run out of fruit at home.
Even Liu Jing sold a lot of watermelons and pineapples, but she didn't dare sell mangoes. The pineapples were also the local kind, but she still made a lot of money from them. At least the money she made from selling watermelons and pineapples in a month was more than her salary. No wonder so many people like to speculate.
The family never gets tired of these foods, but she's gotten a bit tired of them. Now, her greatest pleasure is feeding them, probably because she's grown and eaten so much of it!
Next month we can add peaches and plums, and then gradually add pears.
In winter, she could take out most of the dried fruits from her space, except for tea leaves. She really tried her best, but it was no use.
When I first tried to cook it myself, it either burned or didn't taste good.
After asking the fellow villagers for more details, I learned that the tea leaves turned out somewhat decent, but my hands were a dark yellow color that I couldn't wash off. It took a week for my hands to become clean after I had fried three batches of tea leaves.
So Liu Yun simply gave up. Good tea was hard to buy, but the tea she produced was nowhere near good. Ordinary tea was easy to buy in the countryside, and the ordinary tea there was far superior to what she produced.
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