Chapter 8 8. Milk vetch
Song Sancheng frowned: "Are you planning to plant rice on dozens of acres of land?"
Otherwise, you wouldn’t need so much milkvetch to gain weight, how many kilograms? Only five or six kilograms of seeds are needed for one acre of milkvetch.
At the end of February, I still have my down jackets and cotton-padded jackets on me. After March, the temperature will be faster. As long as there is no late spring cold and the temperature difference between day and night is not that big, most crops can be planted.
If you plant milkvetch, you can plow the ground again for planting at the end of April or May at least...that's fine, as long as you don't delay planting.
According to Song Sancheng’s farming experience, May is the most suitable time for planting in rural areas. There is a late spring cold in March and April every year. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and seeds will be frozen to death when they germinate, so it is not suitable.
It was just that he felt unhappy thinking about spending so much money and wasting time in the first place.
Song Tan thought about it for a long time last night, and now he said calmly: "The bottom two fields will grow rice, and our family will eat it ourselves."
Those two pieces of land add up to three or four acres, and now the rice yield is high, enough for the family to eat, and some can be given to relatives and friends.
Song Tan won't consider it anymore. It's hard work to grow rice, so there won't be more.
You can also try fish farming in rice fields.
“I’ll plant vetch to fertilize the other fields first, and then I’ll plant vegetables when it gets warmer.”
Song Sancheng no longer objected: "Growing vegetables is good, and vegetables are easy to sell. When the time comes, you can ride a three-wheeler to the street and sell them." The cost is low, the harvest is fast, and it is easier than growing rice.
Song Tan laughed and said, "Yes, that's what I planned too." That's weird. How many people are there in the town?
If you want to go, you have to go to the city.
Actually, Song Tan thought about his work last night and had some other ideas - nowadays people like to watch pastoral videos to relax and calm down, but there are so many rural areas, how can we quickly catch people's attention?
Either beautiful or unique.
Her hometown, Yunqiao Village, is really unremarkable.
In this case, we must focus on “beauty”.
The milkvetch has a short growth cycle, is hardy and easy to plant, and its flowers are beautiful enough. When the time comes for her to shoot a video, the first step will be to attract traffic through the stretching milkvetch flower fields.
Otherwise, with so much land and vegetables grown, when will it become a high-quality product?
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At the end of February, there were not many people in the agricultural supplies store. Song Tan asked for 70 kilograms of milkvetch seeds. The boss was also very surprised:
"How much land do you plant? Five kilograms of raw seeds per acre is enough, and ten kilograms of medicinal seeds. The prices are the same, 10 yuan per kilogram."
Original seeds are native seeds that have not been treated.
Medicated seeds are seeds that are coated with insect- and disease-preventing drugs and have good resistance.
Song Tan thought to himself that I couldn’t cultivate the white spirit for a hundred years. There were still ways to repel insects, so he made a decisive choice:
“I want the original seed!”
In addition to milkvetch, other seeds also need to be purchased, such as vegetable seeds, from pak choi, which has the shortest growth cycle, to peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers that need to be cultivated...you must buy them all.
The seeds sold locally may not be as complete as online, but they are the most adaptable for novices. So at the end of Song Tan's purchase, more than a thousand yuan was spent, and Song Sancheng was heartbroken.
Song Tan is still asking!
“Do you have any rice seeds? I want it to taste good.”
The boss looked at it and said: "Yes, this long-grain incense tastes so good that you can't even buy it for ten yuan per catty. But the yield is low, the yield per mu is only 1,800 catties."
Song Tan couldn’t help but sigh—technology is productivity!
In the world of cultivation, for those spiritual grains that have not been hybridized and optimized, she could only produce five to six hundred kilograms per mu despite all her spiritual energy.
“How to sell it?”
The boss is also unambiguous: "This seed is expensive, 80 per catty, and it costs two catties per acre of land."
Four acres of land and eight pounds of seeds, how expensive are they? Thinking of the fragrant rice without any impurities, Song Tan's mouth watered:
"want!" …
“Tantan, don’t worry about buying things slowly. Farming the land is also expensive, so you have to prepare a lot of money.”
The cultivator needs additional rakes of different depths. If you buy it, these must be equipped separately. They rent, so they don't have this problem.
But their fields have not been plowed for many years, and they have to hire someone to clean up the weeds and trees, which costs 150 per person a day. Seven fields were worked by about ten people in one day, and another 2,000 yuan was gone.
If you don’t invite people, it will waste time and affect their farming.
Then a fire must be lit in the field before the land can be plowed. After drying for two days, they can be planted.
Even though it is machine work, their fields here can only plow five acres of land a day. Fifteen acres takes three days and 1,500 yuan.
Fertilizers and pesticides will follow... When Song Sancheng thought about the money spent, he felt that his daughter had spent too much money!
“If you grow so many vegetables, do you need to build a greenhouse to raise the seedlings? Didn’t you say that you have to hire people to dig the mountain? What are you going to do on the mountain?”
Through this calculation, Song Tan felt a little numb.
Before construction even started, the plan for tens of thousands of yuan was lost.
Song Tan made a decision immediately: "Dad, let's not dig up the mountain now. I plan to plant black fungus and white fungus on the mountain. I will use the oak trees on our mountain to grow the fungus. There is no need to clean it up."
There are many hemp oak trees in their local area, also called hemp chestnut trees. This kind of wood is strong and can withstand fire. This is the kind of wood that is burned in Song Tan's house today.
Of course, it is also a good material for growing black fungus and white fungus.
It’s just that now we use bacterial culture bags for direct cultivation. This method has not appeared for many years. At the same time, the price of tree fungi has increased.
Song Tan vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he grew black fungus and white fungus at home.
As a result, every household planted it, but the promised purchaser did not come. In the end, they could only dry it and save it at home, where they ate it for several years.
All the adults in Song Dynasty were numb.
—Growing black fungus and white fungus?
Then you are not allowed to cut down the tree and deal with the trunk? Cut down a tree trunk of suitable thickness, punch holes one by one, and then fill it with bacteria...
Because it takes up space and has low yield, it has been gradually eliminated by the strain package. But what Tantan said makes sense. Now we just want to make it purely natural and pollution-free. We make a strain pack to look like it. Don’t worry about whether there is pollution or not. Anyway, it just has less flavor than tree-grown ones.
Song Sancheng sighed.
But then I thought about it - forget it, there are a lot of oak trees planted anyway, and the hills are crowded, so it would be better to cut down some.
It’s always better than spending money outside.
Spend it, spend it. Once the money is spent, it will be out of sight!
He said in a sullen voice: "I'll ask the person who sells the bacteria."
Song Tan felt guilty when she saw her father acting like this—because she bought a computer and some accessories online last night, spending 8,000 to ensure the efficiency of post-editing.
But the flowers are all spent.
Song Tan then struck while the iron was hot: "Dad, clean up the pig pen at the door. Let's raise three or four pigs this year."
The vegetables are delicious, but the meat must also keep up!
Song Sancheng almost jumped up: "You have so much work, you want your mother and I to be exhausted to death!"
I thought about it and thought that pork is quite expensive now, which actually made me quite moved, so I softened my expression:
“We can’t build a pigsty in front of our house now. The village says it affects the appearance, so we have to clean up the firewood shed.”
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[Regarding cutting down trees, there are many hills in rural areas and every household has them. The tacit understanding among everyone is that if they are cut down, they must be planted, so there is no need to worry about cutting them all down. ]
There is scientific guidance on growing fungi in forests, which is stable. The basswood and white fungus we eat now are grown in this way, except that there is no basswood here, just use local trees. ]
[Regarding the pictures of plants, I didn’t put the easter eggs because I was afraid you would find it troublesome. If you have pictures later, you can actively put them in this chapter. If you are interested, click on it and read it. If you are not interested, don't read it. It will not affect your reading. ]
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