1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 50: Strong and Long-lasting

Judging from the morning glow on the horizon, today is another sunny day.

When Chen Jiazhi finished his shower and entered the room, Li Xiu had already counted the money. "Today I sold 335 yuan, one yuan more than yesterday."

Although the money he earns every day is getting less and less, Li Xiu still enjoys counting the money.

"How much money is left now?"

"750 dollars."

Li Xiu took out all the money from the bag where she kept it and asked, "Are we going to take out pig manure again?"

Chen Jiazhi nodded and said, "This is the last truckload. Just give me 450 yuan. I'll save the rest and go get the fertilizer back in two or three days."

"Okay, it's up to you."

I sell money every day and count money every day, but it basically just passes through Li Xiu's hands.

After taking the money, Chen Jiazhi did not leave immediately, but took out another notebook and looked at it.

He has two notebooks.

One is used in the wholesale market and the other is used for production records. At this moment, he is looking at the sowing records in production.

The notes are all over the place.

Chen Jiazhi circled all the recent sowing records, and then found a separate blank page to list them.

0.3 mu of water spinach in plot 1, sown on May 5.14;

0.25 mu of water spinach in plot 2, sown on May 5.16;

0.25 mu of Chinese cabbage in plot 2, sown on May 5.18
0.25 mu of Chinese cabbage in plot 5, sown on 5.9;

0.25 mu of water spinach in plot 5, sown on May 5.12;

0.25 mu of water spinach in plot 5, sown on May 5.13;

0.25 acres of Chinese cabbage in plot No. 5, sown on May 5.18.

Then he found some water spinach and planted it on May 5.12th as early as possible and on May 5.16th as late as possible, for a total of 1.05 acres.

This is all in preparation for the heavy rain at the end of May.

All the seeds sown were fast-growing varieties: Chicken Heart White.

从12号开始计算，到25号是14天，到29号就是18天。

Generally speaking, vegetable prices will reach their peak 3 to 4 days after a heavy rain, so this time is barely stuck.

But topdressing still needs to be strengthened.

The 0.25 choy sum sown on May 5.9th should be able to barely catch up with this batch, but there will be a vacuum period of a few days in between, so we can only buy other people's goods to secure customers.

The 0.5 mu of Chinese cabbage sown on May 5.18th will be put on the market before June 6.18th as a preheat for June 6.18th.

The other is Land No. 6, which has a total area of ​​4 mu and was divided into 8 plots by Chen Jiazhi, each of 0.5 mu.

There are still more than 1000 kilograms of water spinach and some cabbage hearts in Field No. 6 that can be harvested.

The others have been sprayed with herbicides and are being prepared.

After staring at the notebook and thinking for a while, and then calculating the time, Chen Jiazhi decided to consider sowing Chinese cabbage on all plots of land No. 6.

Not only was there heavy rain on June 6.18th, but the city's external transportation was temporarily interrupted, so after that day, vegetable prices would go up.

Just follow the time.

In May and June, it takes about 25 to 28 days from sowing to harvesting the Sijiuxin.

Finally, Chen Jiazhi wrote down the following sowing nodes for Plot 6 in his notebook:

5.20、5.21、5.22、5.23、5.23、5.24、5.30、6.2。

At the same time, after the heavy rain at the end of May, the water spinach in fields No. 1, 2 and 5 can be harvested and then sown. Even the bean and melon fields on No. 3 and 4 may not be able to be preserved and need to be re-tilled and sown.

At that time, you can continue to plant the cabbage, so that the cabbage forms a cycle. While harvesting, there is also land preparation and sowing. This is the best planting model for leafy vegetables.

If there's open space along the way, you can plant long-growing vegetables like cowpeas to prepare for the July and August typhoons. Actually, Chen Jiazhi isn't really interested in growing cowpeas anymore; they don't make as much money as leafy vegetables.

But thinking of the crop of cowpeas in his previous life, Chen Jiazhi finally kept this option. Sometimes one still has to talk about metaphysics and respect God.

While Chen Jiazhi was writing and drawing, Li Xiu had already gone out to work. After finishing writing, Chen Jiazhi also rode his bike out and went to the pig farm to pay for 1.5 tons of fermented pig manure.

Then he went home, took out the soaked and whitened cabbage seeds, and sowed them in field No. 6.

The Chinese cabbage seeds were bought at the beginning of the year and were sent a plastic bag directly from the seed company. They are enough for a long time, and Chen Jiazhi has no intention of changing the seeds for the time being.

After arriving at the field, Chen Jiazhi first looked at the condition of the land. On the surface of the ridge, traces of fermented pig manure and compound fertilizer granules that had just been spread could be vaguely seen.

In order to cope with heavy rains and achieve better output, Chen Jiazhi made a lot of preparations in the land preparation stage.

First, base fertilizer.

There is a saying that there are only tired oxen but no plowed land, but it is actually not that accurate.

The reason why the land may not be damaged by tillage is simply that the intensity is not enough.

If Chen Jiazhi follows his plan to plant six or more leafy vegetables in the second half of the year, from June to January of the following year, in eight months, the soil fertility requirements will be extremely high.

Therefore, even if the land will be expropriated next year, Chen Jiazhi does not intend to be stingy with the base fertilizer.

1.5 tons of fermented pig manure were applied to each acre of Field No. 6, and quicklime was spread for disinfection and drying of the land. Two or three days before sowing, the bed surface was sprayed with carbendazim mixed with water to prevent diseases such as root rot.

Then comes deep plowing and careful cultivation, evenly turning the fermented pig manure into the soil. In order to drain water, the bed surface is higher than usual, and the ditches between the beds are wider and deeper.

After the land is prepared, evenly spread 30 kg of compound fertilizer and 20 kg of phosphate fertilizer on the surface of the bed as base fertilizer for the next crop.

Apply urea during the growth period.

Such a base fertilizer combination can be strong and long-lasting.

While sowing seeds, Chen Jiazhi observed the situation on each bed.

He also participated in the entire land leveling process, but the area covered by Ao Dehai, Zhao Yu and Li Xiu combined was definitely larger than his.

So we still need to check again.

Especially the height of the bed surface, and the depth and width of the furrows between beds.

At first, the three of them didn't quite understand why he left such a wide gap.

Even though he explained that it was necessary to prevent flooding, the three people thought that such a wide and deep ditch should not be dug because it would waste land and affect the final yield.

Chen Jiazhi could only enforce it.

Fortunately, the three of them were obedient. If it were Li Xiu in his previous life twenty years later, he would have quarreled with him long ago.

The condition of the land was fine, so Chen Jiazhi sowed the seeds with peace of mind.

Sowing seeds is one of Chen Jiazhi's best jobs. After thousands of times of hammering and honing the art in his previous life, he has already mastered it like a piece of cake.

Just by taking a look at the conditions in the field and combining them with the recent climate and temperature, he can accurately determine the sowing amount.

The hands are also very steady, ensuring that the seedlings grown after the seeds are sown are more uniform.

There will be no shortage of nests, and the difficulty of seedling rearing in the future will be reduced.

At the same time, he sowed seeds very quickly. It took him less than half an hour to finish half an acre of land.

If someone else were to come, the seedlings that grow would either have severe bald spots or be extremely dense, which would greatly increase the difficulty of subsequent seedling transplanting, and the efficiency would naturally be low.

Two thousand years later in his previous life, he was working in Shanghai, and thinning was also piecework. At that time, women all liked to work under him, not only because he was the most handsome, but also because he sowed the seedlings most evenly, making thinning more efficient and earning more.

When Chen Jiazhi had sown half of the seeds, he asked Ao Dehai and the other man to come and water them. After watering, they inserted bamboo strips and covered them with a sunshade net.

This will help the seeds germinate faster.

After finishing all this, the last truck of fermented pig manure arrived, and the few people took the bags of pig manure to the next field...

From beginning to end, like a hardworking ant, he kept busy in the vegetable field.

(End of this chapter)