Chapter 168 168. Purchase watermelon seedlings
Lao Jiang soaked his feet. The three people's bodies felt warm, but what was even more hot was the hearts of Song Youde and Song Sancheng.
Nothing but the fact that two new tricycles were in the yard, it was really hard for them not to be excited!
Even Old Man Li didn’t leave, but sat aside and waited with relish.
Only the seventh cousin, who was preparing to prepare dinner, snorted coldly:
“There are no leftover buns in the kennel! It’s not dark yet. It would be great to do some more work. You have to show off that you have a car.”
They are all brothers in the same family, and the seventh cousin has always had this character, so everyone is used to it.
Song Youde’s beard curled up:
“What do you know? This is my granddaughter’s tribute to me! Besides, I haven’t had much work lately…”
“Ha!”
The seventh cousin also sneered: "I heard last night that you were going to plant watermelons in Taolin. Where are the watermelon seedlings?"
“They also said that golden cherry blossoms should be planted on the edge. Where are the golden cherry blossoms?”
“You also said that you would plant a few more loofah pumpkins in the corner over there. Have you planted them all?”
“Didn’t I say that we will pick white fungus today? Where is the white fungus?”
He had prepared rock sugar lilies, dried lotus seeds, and even after waiting for a whole day, he didn’t see a piece of white fungus!
Song Sancheng was a little unconvinced by what he said: "Cousin, we have farm work every day, why don't you want us to take a break? Right, my dear?"
What can Song Tan say?
On one side is the arrogant chef, on the other side is the biological father and grandfather.
She simply got in the car again:
“What’s that, Brother Yanping, just watch them practice driving. They are not allowed to go through the ditches and bumps. I will go to the town to take a look at the watermelon seedlings. I just heard from the courier guy this morning that someone is selling them.”
Zhang Yanping quickly yelled: "Don't look at it in the town! I know a seedling seller. They have watermelons grafted with pumpkin seedlings, unicorn melons, stone seam melons, and seedless melons. They are all big and sweet!"
“No, no, no.”
Song Tan also started the car: "I like the old variety of watermelon with flower skin. I grow it at home and don't pick these."
It’s not that the grafted one is not good, the grafted one must have advantages in terms of nutrient delivery and growth, but the problem is that her aura is thin and her agricultural experience is all about native species. It’s better to be conservative at the moment.
Zhang Yanping is not as good at farm work as she is!
At this moment, he just nodded pretendingly: "Jin Yingzi has also heard the news. Maybe it will be shipped in two days. Don't worry."
Song Tan is not in a hurry.
It is also good to have an alternating period of planting, so that the flowers can continue to bloom and the bees will be full.
It is true that she said she wanted to see the watermelon seedlings.
Those who are more diligent will start sowing early melons in March. She waits until early April and wants to catch early melons on the market, so she has to choose other people's finished seedlings.
Fortunately, it is not far from the town. In recent years, greenhouses and seedling bases have been built on large areas of farmland. Now it is easy to choose some popular seedlings.
It was only around two o'clock in the afternoon. By the time she came back after picking out the seedlings, her father and her grandfather were probably almost done with their driving skills.
It just so happened that everyone was going up the mountain to plant watermelon seedlings when the sun was not so hot.
The land was plowed when peach trees were planted. Now all you need to do is dig holes for planting. After all, it has aura, extensive management, and is simple.
Driving from home to the town, it was much closer than the city. In just over 20 minutes, the car had arrived at the greenhouse agreed in advance.
When I entered the shed, I saw that everything was green and green, which was very pleasant.
“You want to buy watermelon seedlings?”
The uncle who came in had dark skin. When he saw Song Tan, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Then he glanced behind her, and finally he dared to believe that the person in front of him who was going to farm was this beautiful girl with white skin. Song Tan nodded:
“Yes, I am from Yunqiao Village. My family has an orchard this year and I want to plant some watermelons in the orchard.”
"Oh," the boss then came back to his senses: "I know about Yunqiao Village. Do you want interplanting in the orchard? Then the seedlings you use for this acre of land will be much less than usual. You can pick them first. , come, take a look at the seedlings first.”
The boss knew the way well and took her into the greenhouse next door: "We are all fellow villagers, and I won't cheat you. If anything happens, just come here to see me. I can run away, but my greenhouse can't run away either. Once the planting is done, You will come again next year.”
Song Tan nodded.
She knew what the boss meant, and he also gave her a verbal guarantee to make her buy with confidence.
For folks in the countryside, although some people choose to cheat others, most of the time, if you want to do local business for a long time, you care about reputation.
“Why does this seedling look a little weak?”
Public reputation is word of mouth, reality is reality, and Song Tan does not hesitate to ask questions.
The boss was sincere: "This is an early-maturing seedling, and the melons will be small. They can be sold at the end of May or early June."
"Don't look at the seedlings as they are a bit weak. It's just like that. It's not a matter of planting. You can go back and plant them and taste them. Leave a vine on each plant. The melons will definitely be sweet. I won't let you down."
"Normally, you can plant a thousand seedlings like this in one acre of land. But if you want to interplant, then eight hundred, it depends on yourself."
“But if you want to plant more sparsely, you can’t choose such small seedlings. Get another variety with stronger seedlings.”
He turned right along the road and entered another greenhouse: "Look, this medium-ripening one takes a month later than the previous one, but you can keep two vines of this kind of melon, and one plant will produce two or three melons."
"If you want to interplant this with fruit trees, you can plant 300 to 500 trees per acre. No more. The vines are too strong and take up space."
"There are better ones, but this one, I tell you the truth, girl, not many people buy this seedling now."
Why?
The watermelons it bears are too big.
“Nowadays, there are only two, three or four people in a family, and melons that are too big can’t be eaten in one go, and they can’t be stored in the refrigerator. Generally, small watermelons don’t sell as well as small watermelons.”
This is true. Song Tan would not be grateful if he saw such a big melon. Because they are really big, they all look like big winter melons.
The winter melon is in the supermarket, and you only buy one ring at a time for cooking. You can imagine how many people need to eat this watermelon?
In his current big family, it can be digested, but the problem is that it is really inconvenient to take out.
She turned her head without hesitation: "Does the melon produced by your smallest seedling be a little smaller?"
“Yes,” the boss said truthfully.
“If you sell early melons, you choose small seedlings. I’m not trying to trick you. Look at how expensive watermelons were when they first came on the market! It’s hard to sell watermelons if they’re too big, so they have to be small like this.”
“When the weather gets hotter, we can sell these slightly later-ripening varieties, which are larger, cheaper, and not painful to eat.”
What he talked about was his own experience, and Song Tan listened carefully.
Look at these days, everyone who sells melon seedlings must first understand the market clearly. They are really gaining knowledge every day.
Nowadays, watermelon seedlings grafted with pumpkin seedlings are not used in large-scale planting.
Large watermelons are really, really hard to consume.
The day of the monthly tribulation has also come. Go to bed early today and work hard to make up for it tomorrow.
Although the update is a little late this month, the number of words is actually enough...but Wan Guifei is missing.
(End of this chapter)