A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 160 Yuba's Blessing

"So I've been in Stardew Valley for twelve days now? But why are some of the parsnips ripening even though I planted them the day after?"

After a quick glance, Lyon found that almost all the parsnips he had planted were mature. He was a little confused. After all, although he had planted a lot of parsnips, some of them were not planted on the same day. Now all the parsnips he could see were mature, which was very strange.

However, despite his doubts, since the system had marked the radishes as ripe for harvest, Lyon naturally would not miss this opportunity. Although it was his first time dealing with a plant like parsnip, Lyon knew how to pull radishes.

He squatted down, grabbed the exposed roots and leaves, and pulled hard. A piece of wind grass the size of a baby's arm, covered with mud and shaped like a white radish, was pulled out of the soil by Lyon.

"Parsnip: A spring tuber similar to carrots that is nutritious and earthy."

As soon as he got a piece of parsnip, Lyon saw the instructions marked by the system. Lyon looked at the parsnip happily, took it into the wooden house, washed it, held it in his hand, and took a bite.

It's a bit crispy and a bit sandy. The taste is very similar to celery when you put it in your mouth, and it's a bit sweet. But after chewing it carefully, you can feel a slight tingling sensation on your tongue, and it's spicy. At the same time, it's very juicy. Overall, the taste is pretty good.

This was the first time that Lyon had completed a serious planting experience from start to finish, so he couldn't help but eat all of this memorable first parsnip as a reward for his labor.

After eating a large piece of parsnip, Leon felt not only full, but also a wonderful satisfaction, which made him smile.

When he was a child, he didn't understand why his parents smiled so happily when they were harvesting the wheat in the summer, even though they had to work in the fields from morning till night under the scorching sun and high temperatures in order to compete with God for the harvest.

Now Leon finally understood where this smile came from.

It is the joy of harvest, the natural preference and pursuit of human beings for food, and the longing engraved deep in the hearts of every farmer.

It makes people understand that as long as they work hard, they will definitely be rewarded. This belief inspires people to keep moving forward, continue to sow seeds and cultivate in the days to come, and look forward to the arrival of the next harvest.

Your boss may lie to you and promise you a rosy picture, but the land won’t. As long as you work hard and don’t encounter any accidents, the fruits of your hard work will be the most tangible feedback.

With a smile, Lyon pulled out the mature parsnips in the field one by one. He didn't care even if the mud brought by these parsnips stuck to his clothes and shoes. Lyon did not put any of the pulled parsnips into his backpack, but placed them neatly in the open space next to the field.

When all the parsnips were harvested, Lyon looked at the small pile of fresh parsnips and laughed unconsciously.

Lyon just smiled and looked at the windbreaks that were still covered with mud, as if he was looking at his own children, feeling proud and happy.

What made me even happier was that the system prompt came after I harvested the parsnips.

"Long-term farming work has given you a new understanding of plant cultivation, and your farming level has been raised by one level.

During the harvesting process, you have a higher pursuit of plant quality. You decide to master a better planting method to enable plants to grow. You think of fertilizer as a way to enhance the nutrition of the soil. The primary fertilizer formula has been unlocked.

You have received Yuba's blessing. The plants you plant will no longer be plagued by pests and diseases." "Primary Fertilizer: Slightly improves soil quality, increasing your chances of growing high-quality crops. Use on reclaimed land. Required: Tree Sap*2"

After admiring the mature parsnips for a while, Lyon calmed down and picked out some of the parsnips that were obviously larger than ordinary parsnips.

After selecting the large individuals, we compared them one by one again, picked out the larger and more symmetrical individuals, and then made a statistics.

There are 31 regular-sized parsnips, 8 larger ones, and only 2 larger, more symmetrical and beautiful ones.

Although there were no obvious colored star marks to prove their quality, Lyon could tell from the differences in size and individual appearance of these parsnips.

The two largest parsnips should be high-quality crops of gold quality, while the larger ones should be classified as silver star quality. As for the normal-sized ones, they should be the most ordinary quality parsnips.

After putting all the windbreaks into the system backpack and not dealing with them for the time being, Lyon looked at the windbreaks that clearly occupied three grids in the backpack and was completely sure that his guess was correct.

Even though the system did not mark the wind grass in the system backpack with silver and gold star symbols, the default separation of the wind grass of one type into three grids was already a very clear hint.

However, this also prompted Lyon to think of a question, that is, how much does the quality of the aronia have to do with its seeds?

One seed produces one parsnip. The seeds of the parsnips harvested this time came from three different sources.

There were seeds sent by Lewis, bought from Pierre's grocery store, and mixed seeds dropped from harvesting weeds, but because Lyon did not consider conducting control trials when he first planted them, he could not be sure where these silver star or gold star quality parsnip seeds came from.

However, Lyon estimated that the quality of these seeds should be similar. Otherwise, according to the system's habit of marking information on everything it sees, when encountering high-quality seeds, it should have a prefix of "preferred" or "high quality", just like the fifty cauliflower seeds provided by Gunther.

The fact that this batch of parsnips can grow so well should be attributed to the land of Red Star Farm.

After all, Lyon didn't think that normal soil could make the burdock mature in such a short time, and some of the seeds were planted at intervals. Although the difference was only one or two days, this question still made Lyon quite curious.

Unfortunately, no one can answer this question now, so Lyon can only continue to work in the fields.

Because the sessile grass was harvested, there were many pits left after the sessile grass was pulled out. Lyon used a hoe to turn the land into a soft state suitable for planting, and sprinkled the fertilizer that Lewis had brought when he came to deliver things on the renovated soil.

This is what Lyon thought of after seeing the system's unlocking formula for improving the farming level. If it weren't for this prompt, the fertilizers that Lewis originally used to fertilize his own land might have to stay in the firewood pile for a long time.

However, these fertilizers were only enough to fill about twenty grids of land. Leon returned to the house and took out the sap he had stored in the fir box to make twenty-two portions of fertilizer, which he sprinkled on the remaining cultivated land. Then, instead of watering the land in a hurry, he rode his bike directly towards Pelican Town.

After all, he still needs to purchase new seeds to fill the empty spaces left by the harvested broccoli. This time, Lyon plans to buy all cauliflower seeds to maximize profits.

(End of this chapter)