127: The real good things are kept within the family
However, there is limited space at home, and it is impossible to plant all the vegetable seeds, so I have to open another vegetable garden.
The mother and daughter made some plans and decided to plant cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions, eggplants, beans and spinach first.
Then plant some pumpkins and winter melons along the three sides of the fence. When the time comes, let the pumpkins and winter melons climb up the fence, or build a frame to extend it outside the yard.
As long as you are willing to work hard, there are plenty of places.
The mother and daughter worked hard all day, fetching water and digging the soil, and finally planted all the vegetables.
The vegetables were planted, but fertilizer became a problem.
Although the land in the Great Northern Wilderness is fertile, who can guarantee what the seeds sown there will grow like without fertilizer?
What if they all turn yellow and thin? What will they eat then?
There is no chemical fertilizer.
There were fertilizers in the company's warehouse, but they were all public property and could only be used in large fields. No one dared to take the fertilizers.
The company’s cow dung, horse dung, and even the dung in the public toilets were public property, and no one dared to touch them.
Therefore, every household tried their best to find fertilizer by themselves, such as the manure produced by their own chickens, ducks and geese, as well as the "fertilizer water" from their own toilets.
The Yu family didn’t grow vegetables in the past, and the family never considered this issue.
Now that I have to take care of my own vegetable garden, I deeply understand the meaning of the saying "good things should be kept within the family".
Yu Xiaoye suggested to his mother that from now on, the family should not use the toilet on the yacht to relieve themselves, but should try to collect them and use them for watering the land.
Also, the long-abandoned pit toilet in the yard must be used, and every bit of money saved is a good thing.
Although they all find dry toilets difficult to accept, they need manure right now and can't be so pretentious anymore.
Thinking about all the feces and urine that had been wasted before, both mother and daughter felt heartbroken!
In addition to the manure produced by themselves, the chickens raised at home also take on the task of making manure.
Chicken manure is also a good fertilizer.
Yu Xiaoye also suggested that they should raise more chickens so that more manure could be produced.
Xu Ying raised a question: there is no problem in raising more chickens, but what should we feed them?
Chicks need to eat food, but there is not enough food at home to feed them.
Also, in winter, when there is ice and snow everywhere, chickens cannot go out to hunt for food and have to rely on food to survive the winter. Raising too many chickens is a considerable burden.
You can't just raise as many fish as you want. You must first solve the feed problem.
In this era of material scarcity, where can we find so much chicken feed?
Yu Xiaoye subconsciously thought of her Pacific Ocean.
She has now formed a habit that when she encounters any problem, the first thing she will think about is whether her Pacific Ocean can help her solve it.
After thinking about it, I actually came up with a solution.
Do chickens eat fish?
If chickens eat fish, then wouldn’t they solve the feed problem?
They have endless marine resources, so they can catch as many fish as they want!
Yu Xiaoye went to ask Xu Ying, but Xu Ying didn't know either.
As far as I can remember, I have never heard of anyone using fish to feed chickens.
Yu Xiaoye decided to try it himself.
She returned to the ocean space, dug out some fish scraps from the kitchen that were about to be thrown back into the sea, chopped them up, took them to the yard, and threw them into the chicken coop.
When the group of furry little yellow chickens heard the noise, they spread their wings and fluttered over, chirping and pecking at the pile of fish debris with their pointed little beaks.
Xu Ying looked at the chicken eating with relish and said excitedly:
“It turns out chickens eat fish too!”
"Mom, we have an idea. Let's get some more chickens to feed. Then we'll have more eggs and chicken than we can eat. We can also use the chicken manure for farming. It's like killing two birds with one stone!"
"Then I'll go find Widow Wang and exchange her for another thirty chicks. Her hens can hatch chicks anyway, so I can just ask her for the exchange."
"Um!"
The mother and daughter stood outside the chicken coop, both very excited, and waited until the chicks had almost finished eating the chopped fish before leaving.
Yu Xiaoye returned to the yacht, chopped up some small fish in the fish bucket, and then took them out to feed the fish.
They are usually quite wasteful when eating fish. They throw away some of the leftovers such as fins, heads, and bones, and only eat large pieces of boneless fish meat.
Now we can make full use of these scraps without wasting anything.
Also, when they cast their nets to fish, they often catch fish of varying sizes and species. Previously, they would throw these fish back into the sea.
Now that we know that chickens also eat fish, we can chop up the fish that they don’t eat and use it to feed the chickens.
Fish meat has high nutritional value. If the chickens eat it, they should grow faster and stronger, right?
The eggs laid then will definitely be more nutritious.
People eat fish, and the leftover fish is fed to chickens. When the chickens grow up, they provide eggs and chicken meat. The chicken manure is used as fertilizer to grow vegetables, and the grown vegetables are then eaten by people.
Someone who is definitely at the top of the food chain!
The mother and daughter were busy all day planting vegetables and feeding chickens.
In the evening, the two of them carried bamboo baskets and went to the field behind the house to dig wild vegetables.
The land in the Great Northern Wilderness is fertile, and wild vegetables grow very lushly, especially in spring and summer. They are almost everywhere in the mountains and cannot be dug up all. There are many of them, and many varieties.
May is the time when wild vegetables are fresh and tender. You can dig up more and use them for cold dishes, stir-fries, or to make soups.
The leftovers are stored on the yacht so that we can still eat fresh wild vegetables in autumn and winter.
The mother and daughter went into the field behind the house and soon dug up half a basket of dandelions, shepherd's purse, and bitter herbs.
There were many other wild vegetables in the wild, but the mother and daughter couldn't recognize any of them and didn't dare to dig them up randomly, so they only dug these three.
While digging wild vegetables, I also saw some small trees with bulging flower buds, which looked like some kind of wild fruit.
The two of them couldn't recognize what these wild fruits were called, but they were varieties that were not found in their hometown.
The mother and daughter planned to visit this wilderness more often in the future. This wilderness seemed to be a treasure trove of rich resources. As long as they were willing to dig, they would definitely find some good things.
In the original owner's hometown, there are many people and little land. Even if there are some wild fruits in the wild, they have been spotted by others and picked before they can mature. It is never their turn.
But the situation in the Great Northern Wilderness is completely different. There is a lot of land, few people, and abundant resources.
As long as you are diligent and willing to spend effort and time, you can always find some treasures in nature's treasure house.
Not only can you eat the treasures you find yourself, but you can also ask someone to take the leftovers to sell on the black market, or take them to a sales outlet to exchange for some daily necessities like oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc.
Every time some educated youth returned to the city to visit their families, they would always bring back a lot of wild game or some precious grains and oils.
Therefore, the overall living standards of farmers and workers in the Great Northern Wilderness at that time were much better than those in other production teams, and their food was even richer than that of some city dwellers.
During its heyday in the 1970s, the Great Northern Wilderness was a place many people longed for.
The mother and daughter had dug half a basket of wild vegetables and were planning to continue digging when the company's radio loudspeaker rang not far away, signaling it was time to finish work.
Xu Ying was addicted to digging wild vegetables and didn't want to go back. Without even looking up, he said:
"Bao, go back and cook first. I'll dig for a while."
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