A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 226: Save 20 years of detours

On the other side, Leon returned to the farm and waited for a while. He found that Abigail did not come back. He breathed a sigh of relief and began to prepare dinner.

Dinner was relatively simple. The thawed pork was washed with clean water, flattened, coated with breadcrumbs, and fried until golden brown. Then it was cut into pieces and added to the rice. A simple meal of fried pork chop rice was ready.

Meat always brings great satisfaction to people and is much more enjoyable than eating fish. As a carnivore, Leon now regrets not going to the butcher John to buy meat earlier.

After eating and drinking, taking a shower and watching TV, the day ended. The next morning, the sun drove away Lyon's sleepiness as usual. When Lyon walked out of the cabin, he once again saw the green fluorescence that represented the maturity of the crops.

"Ripe potatoes (harvestable)"

"Ripe cabbage (harvestable)"

"Mature tulips (harvestable)"

All three areas of the field have this kind of system marking prompts, especially the tulip area. Even without the need for these system maturity marks, Lyon can still see it because it has already bloomed.

"Yesterday, I saw these tulip buds hadn't even sprouted, but today they're blooming."

Looking at these tulips with different colors, Lyon couldn't help but sigh. After all, compared with the growth of other plants, the changes in tulips were the most intuitive example for Lyon to see the growth rate of crops in Red Star Farm.

However, he only admired it for a few seconds before Lyon began to prepare to add some small help to the graduation ceremony of these mature crops.

The first thing to pick is the tulips. These flowers, which come in a variety of colors from red, pink, yellow to orange, are harvested by cutting them from the roots. Originally, Lyon planned to pull them up by the roots, but he was surprised to find that he couldn't do it.

However, using the sickle provided by the system, you can easily cut off the entire flower stem from the root and put it into your backpack.

All the tulips have been harvested, totaling 50 flowers of various colors. 20 of them are from seeds that I bought from Pierre, and the remaining are gifts given to me by Grandma Evelyn when I first met her.

And these tulips also took up more than half of the space in Lyon's system backpack.

They are all tulips, but just because of the different colors, these tulips of different colors cannot be put into the same storage compartment.

Moreover, some tulips of the same color cannot be combined, which is a characteristic of high-quality crops.

But unlike high-quality parsnips, high-quality tulips do not have any obvious characteristics. Lyon held ordinary-quality tulips and high-quality tulips in his hands and compared them many times.

It was found that there was basically no difference in the size of flowers, length of flower stems, leaves, etc. between the two.

After looking carefully for a long time, Lyon could roughly distinguish some subtle differences. The stems of high-quality tulips were harder, and the number of petals and stamens was more than that of ordinary tulips. The shape of the flowers was more symmetrical, and the fragrance was stronger.

Unfortunately, Lyon is not a flower lover. After collecting all the tulips, Lyon threw most of them into the shipping box, leaving only the largest number of pink and purple ordinary quality tulips, a total of eight, in his backpack. He also specially left a high-quality pink tulip.

This high-quality pink tulip is a gift that Leon intends to give to Grandma Evelyn, because Grandma Evelyn provided him with seeds. In return, Leon wants to let Grandma Evelyn see the tulips he harvested, which can be regarded as returning the favor.

Of course, there is also the idea of ​​helping grandpa pay off his debts. After all, listening to Grandma Evelyn's conversation, the two seemed to have a painful literary story.

"Grandpa, you should be happy to have such a good grandson like me." Leon muttered while looking up at the sky, then returned to the field and started harvesting cabbage.

Cabbage is also harvested using a sickle. The leaves of these cabbages are broad and spoon-shaped, with basal leaves closely arranged alternately in a rosette shape. The leaves are smooth and hairless, with fine wavy wrinkles on the edges. Unlike cabbage that looks very much like cabbage, this cabbage belongs to the horticultural variety of kale.

However, Lyon was not interested in any of these because he did not like the taste of cabbage or cabbage, so these cabbages were only considered commodities in Lyon's case and not a single one could be kept.

These twenty cabbages are also high-quality crops, one is of Silver Star quality and the other is of Gold Star quality. They are very easy to distinguish and can be easily identified by looking at their size.

After harvesting the cabbage, Lyon focused on harvesting potatoes.

These potatoes, unlike cabbage tulips, cannot be harvested with a sickle and must be harvested by hand because the edible tubers are buried in the soil.

Normally, digging potatoes requires turning the soil, but because the soil at Red Star Farm is loose and the stems and leaves of the potatoes exposed to the soil are relatively firm, Lyon can pull them directly out of the soil.

Pulling potatoes is quite interesting. It feels great to pull these oval tubers from the soil. What's even better is that Lyon originally thought that it would be good to harvest one or two potatoes from each plant, but the potatoes Lyon was able to pull out were all an even number of tubers.

Most of the time there are two potatoes under one stem and leaves, and occasionally there are four. There is no uneven size due to plundering of nutrients by each other, and they are all about the same fist size.

Of course, this is not absolute. Some of the potatoes had two or three small potatoes the size of a fingernail attached to the tubers. Lyon originally thought that these were potatoes that had not grown, but after reading the system notes, he realized that he had misunderstood.

"High-quality potato seeds (seeds): High-quality potato seeds born under the blessing of taking a rest under the grass. Their growth cycle is the same as that of ordinary potato seeds, taking 18 days to grow. The chance of producing high-quality crops is extremely high."

The system label of this seed immediately made Lyon understand why his potato yield was so high. It turned out that it was the result of the special effect of doubling the yield of specific crops that enjoyed the shade under the wheat.

Originally, Lyon thought that the technique of "taking shelter from the heat under the rice plants" was only applicable to rice plants, but today's discovery made him realize that perhaps this skill was not that simple.

"Thank you for your kindness, old man. I never thought that in this new world, I can still enjoy your blessing."

Leon happily put the potato seeds into his backpack and put his hands together and bowed to the land in front of him. He didn't bow to the sky because he felt that the old man was the god of agriculture and the land was his identity.

With the old man's blessing, Lyon pulled out all the remaining potatoes. The 20 potato seedlings brought Lyon a profit of 68 potatoes, including 16 high-quality potatoes, 11 silver star potatoes, and 5 gold star potatoes. Lyon also judged by size.

These high-quality potatoes came with a lot of potato seeds after being dug out. A total of 41 high-quality potato seeds were put into Lyon's backpack, waiting for the next planting.

At the same time, Lyon also had some ideas. That is, after these high-quality potato seeds are planted and harvested, the potatoes that grow into high-quality crops should also be accompanied by these high-quality potato seeds. And because the number of high-quality potato plants increases, the number of harvested seeds will also be greatly increased.

In addition, potatoes can enjoy the double effect of crops growing under the shade of the rice plants. Lyon couldn't imagine how exaggerated the harvest scene would be.

"Grandpa has shown me a clear path."

　Thanks to the boss of Sunflower Loves to Eat Melon Seeds for the reward of 100 starting coins. I hope the boss is in good health.

　　I won’t try to persuade you anymore. I’m tired.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)