novelaction Chapter 421 Farming Like This
Chapter 421 Farming Like This
After the house was built, there were still a lot of wooden scraps left. Zhou Guo used stones to clang and piece together two wooden beds.
One was given to Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi, and one was given to the old man. Little Zhou Su and the others were used to sleeping on the kang, and said that the kang was too big and the bed was too small.
Nevertheless, she went to the carpenter, found some planks, and made three bed boards.
There was enough space in the room, so we laid stones, put wooden boards on the bed, spread out sterilized hay, mats, and finally a quilt, and a soft bed was ready.
Zhou Guo lay on the soft bed, tossing and turning, and said happily: "Sister, you try it, it is much more comfortable than the hard kang. When the weather gets cold, we will take down this bed and sleep on the kang."
Zhou Xing was also very happy. She had slept on a bed for more than ten years, and it was really uncomfortable to suddenly sleep on a kang. However, it was really warm in winter.
The bed was also made. Every morning after breakfast, Zhou Guo would take Zhou Su and others to the fields, leading the cattle and horses. Hei Dadan would usually rush out immediately.
The rice seedlings in the field have now reached the tillering stage. Fertilizer was applied once when the seedlings turned green. Now the water in the field cannot be too deep. If there is too much water, some of it must be drained to maintain a shallow water layer so that the roots can better absorb fertilizer and promote the tillering of the seedlings.
The seedlings are growing vigorously. At first glance, the scene is green. When the wind blows, the green waves roll.
Li walked around the field, unable to hide the smile on her face. "Now it looks like the rice seedlings are growing almost as well as your grandfather's carefully cultivated ones. I just don't know how they will be when the harvest comes."
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "She dragged a small portion of the fertilizer at home here. It's been more than a month since we started planting, and we've applied fertilizer twice. I heard that we'll have to apply fertilizer once more in a few days. With this amount of fertilizer, the seedlings will certainly grow well."
Zhou Guo said, "That's not entirely true, sister. There's actually a lot of knowledge involved in managing this kind of land. There are also some rules for when to fertilize. We don't have enough fertilizer at home. It would be better if we had more."
"Isn't this enough?!" Li and Zhou Xing said at the same time. You know, the amount she applied would be enough to fertilize ten acres of land!
Zhou Guo chuckled, "If you only fertilize my two mu of rice fields, it will be more than enough. We still have more than ten mu of wheat at home. That is the biggest one and it also needs fertilizer."
Li said helplessly, "You know that wheat is the biggest crop at home. Seeing how enthusiastically you use fertilizer, I thought you only remembered your two acres of paddy fields. You should also leave some for your family. If you use it up, the wheat fields will just be eating the wind and drinking the dew."
Zhou Guo said: "Mom, don't worry, I still have more than half left, I have counted them all. If it really doesn't work, why don't we make it ourselves."
"Kid, how do you make fertilizer yourself?" Li shook her head.
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "It would be great if we could make it ourselves. We can have as much as we want, and there's no need to drag a broken basket around to pick up cow and horse manure every day."
There is nothing we can do about it since fat is so precious.
After looking at the paddy fields, several people went to the wheat fields. The wheat had been watered twice and was growing well. However, there were always a few wheat seedlings that turned yellow and white, and looked sick and infested with insects.
The whole family had to spend the whole day in the fields catching insects.
At the same time, the villagers looked at Zhou Guo's lush rice field and were filled with emotion. "She really managed to grow crops on these two acres of land. Look at these rice seedlings. Although I have never grown them before, they look strong. If the seedlings are good, the harvest should be good."
"You didn't see how that girl treated her few acres of land. She looked at it like an eyeball and fertilized it with a bang. Look at her wheat fields at home. If there is not enough fertilizer, the yield will definitely not be good. Isn't this nonsense? She gave up the big heads and picked up the small heads."
Everyone in the village was secretly watching the joke and gossiping a lot.
Zhou Guo had no time to pay attention to it. After finishing her work in the fields every day, she would go to the backyard to tinker with the fertilizer. She would drag a basket up and down the mountain every day, making herself dirty and smelly. She could only go to bed after taking a shower every day.
The kids who came to play football found her and saw her fiddling with farm manure in the backyard, then went out quietly.
Mrs. Li looked at her little face which was never clean, and said helplessly, "Why are you fiddling with those things again? If you finish all these, the farm will be ruined this year."
Zhou Guo said: "I only moved a little bit. If you don't believe me, go and see. I have to try these methods to see if they work. How can you catch a wolf without sacrificing a child?"
"So what are you doing?" the whole family asked, but no one knew what she was doing.
Zhou Guo said the same thing again, "I can't tell you now. You will know it when it succeeds."
If it doesn't work, then you won't know.
Her family couldn't do anything to her.
Li went to check it out specially and saw that it was not used much, so she just ignored it and let her do whatever she wanted.
By the time the seedlings in the field began to grow, she still hadn't figured out how to make her own fertilizer. So she piled up fertilizer wherever she could in the backyard. Unfortunately, after working so hard for so long, she failed; not a single pile was successfully fermented.
Either they are overburned, or there is no reaction at all, or they attract a lot of mosquitoes and stink terribly.
She had no choice but to pull herself out.
The grass in the field is growing thick again, so we need to weed it.
She wore a small straw hat, carried a water gourd on her back, and went down to the field first.
First, deep ditches were dug around the middle of the rice field, and the water in the field immediately flowed into the deep ditches.
Everyone was very surprised. "What are you doing? Why dig such a deep ditch? The rice seedlings will die if their roots are exposed!"
Zhou Guo said: "No, I'm watching. Even if there are only one or two exposed, it's not easy to die. There are still so many of them, right?"
After all the water in the field flowed into the ditch, she began to pull out the weeds around the seedlings, then dug the soil around the rice roots into mud, and buried the pulled grass deeply under the rice roots. The weeds on a clump of seedlings were considered completely removed.
When everyone saw her stuffing the grass back into the field, they said, "Why did you stuff the grass back in? Throw it out quickly. If you don't, it will grow back again."
"You've done this in vain! It's all in vain!"
How can you farm like this? It's totally unheard of.
Zhou Guo stood up and said, "I just throw these weeds out. Does that mean there will be no weeds growing in the fields from now on? You guys should come down quickly. Like me, not only should we pull out the weeds around, but we should also loosen the soil around the rice roots. This way, we can also pull out the weeds inside the rice roots. The weeds should also be buried underground. I tell you, there is not much fertilizer now, and these weeds are also rare fertilizer. If we bury them like this, I can at least apply fertilizer once less."