Alpine Orchard

Chapter 221
I have been busy with other things in Gaoshanping for two days...

Level the feed feeding point of the reservoir, trim overgrown orchards and plant grass.

The cantaloupe in the melon field ushered in another batch of ripe.

The weather is hot and the fruits ripen quickly.

Ye Mo got up early in the morning and went to look at the super big watermelon in the greenhouse. This big watermelon stopped growing at the beginning of the month, and it has matured by now.

Ye Mo called Zhang Yuanqiao: "Hello, Boss Zhang."

"what?"

"The watermelons are already ripe, come and pick them when you are free," Ye Mo said.

"Put it on later."

"Wait for you. I'm picking melons here, come and eat melons."

"Row."

There are 80 large watermelons in the greenhouse, and 20 of them have not been grafted, and their growth is still very good... Judging by the size of the watermelons, they are basically around 200 catties.

For the remaining watermelons, 40 were grafted with gourds. 10 with winter squash and 10 with squash...

The vines grafted with winter melon grow the largest.Several of them are estimated to be close to 300 catties.It looks very big, but the shape of the watermelon is not as beautiful as the grafted gourd.

The ones grafted from pumpkins are relatively round, and although they are also very large, they are... not as beautiful as those grafted from gourds.

The most beautiful melons are those 20 ungrafted watermelons.The grafted gourds are also very beautiful.

If you want to plant this variety in large quantities in the future, you can just plant the watermelon seeds directly in the field without grafting. The growth is also very good.You can save a lot of work by not having to graft.Suitable for large area planting...

Gao Yuan and Li Xuebin were notified yesterday.

Gao Yuan came here early in the morning, saw Ye Mo at the side of the greenhouse, and walked over: "The big watermelon is very beautiful."

"Yeah." Ye Mo smiled and nodded, catching the cigarette Gao Yuan handed over.

"Have you considered planting these watermelons on a large scale?" Gao Yuan said.

"Yes. Next year, depending on the situation... Plant tens of acres of large watermelons. But the area is large, and the watermelons will definitely not grow so big. These watermelons are specially bred..."

"It's not bad if each can weigh forty or fifty catties," Gao Yuan said.

Ye Mo shrugged and said, "Leave some watermelon seeds here and plant them for the villagers at the foot of the mountain next year. At that time, you should help sell them."

"no problem."

Ye Mo's father and the others came over.

Ye Mo told Gao Yuan about the development of ecological agriculture in Xiahongshan Town, and about the labeling of cantaloupe...

The carload of melons that Gao Yuan sent out yesterday was not labeled: "Well, just stick it on."

Li Xuebin also came over, bringing many labels.

The three most eye-catching characters in the middle of the label are 'Hongshan Town', and behind the big red characters are 'Gaoshanping Orchard'.There is also a row of small characters on the top, which is Yancheng County, Huacheng City... The introduction of the product is placed at the bottom, 'Emerald Cantaloupe'.

The contact number is the customer service number of Li Xuebin and his company.

There are two labels, the other label is for Gao Yuan, and the contact number on it is Gao Yuan's company phone number.

Li Xuebin also asked Gao Yuan and Ye Mo about the labels.

Ye Mo doesn't have customer service here, and it's not easy to put his personal phone number on it.

There are more ripe cantaloupe today, and baskets of cantaloupe are transported out.

Li Xuebin and the others were helping to label the awning. After nine o'clock... Chen Shan came over, as well as their town mayor, senior town officials, and Wang Hong, director of the Rural Revitalization Office.

Everyone is curious about what a cantaloupe that can sell for tens of dollars per catty looks like.

Before entering the arbor, the group could smell the unique sweet smell of muskmelon.

The smell is not strong, but very clear and very comfortable.The sweet smell of melons also attracted bees, flying around the melon shed...

"Brother Chen, Mayor Zhao." Li Xuebin shouted.

"Hey..." Zhao Hai said with a smile: "It's so early, I started picking."

"The early birds get the worms. If I come late, the melons will be taken away by Boss Gao." Li Xuebin smiled and introduced them: "This is Boss Gao. Boss Gao... The first is the mayor of Zhao, and Chen Shan, the deputy village chief of Changzhu Village, is also my eldest brother."

"Hello, Mayor Zhao, and Brother Chen." Gao Yuan stood up and passed cigarettes to several people.

"Let me introduce to you, this is Lao Luo, Luo Chengwen, the senior official of our Hongshan Town."

"Hi Secretary Luo..."

"Ye Mo." Li Xuebin yelled with a smile, and said, "Secretary Luo is here, hurry up and let Secretary Luo guide you in your work."

"I know the work of guiding, I just come to visit." Luo Chengwen was a little speechless.

Zhao Hai laughed and said, "Boss Li likes to joke around."

"Just kidding..." Li Xuebin said.

"Every day, don't make jokes." Chen Shan said, "There are so many people, you are shouting here."

"Sorry sorry..."

"I dare not talk about directing work." Secretary Luo also laughed: "Such a large watermelon field, muskmelon field...how much output value can it have?"

"The output value, what is the final output value?"

"Just the income of melon farmers?"

When Ye Mo walked over, he heard Li Xuebin say: "Boss Ye is not a serious melon farmer. His watermelons, cantaloupe... combined, it is estimated that the output value is several million." Li Xuebin just laughed and said, It was not convenient for him to answer these questions.

"Why am I not a serious melon farmer?" Ye Mo gave Li Xuebin a white look.

"Serious..."

Ye Mo opened a few melons for everyone to taste.

These melons are really sweet and fragrant.

Half of the pulp is crispy, the other half is soft and tender, and the saccharification in the melon pulp has a richer fragrance.

I heard them say that the cantaloupe here can be sold for as much as tens of yuan per catty. They still didn't believe it, but after tasting it and asking about it, they don't think it's an exaggeration for this price.

"Are these melons a common variety?" Secretary Luo asked.

"It's the preferred variety we bought," Ye Mo said.

"If other farmers come to plant, can they have such good quality?"

"Well, it's hard to say." Ye Mo thought for a while, and said, "The management of these melons is very troublesome. If it is an ordinary farmer, I suggest that planting watermelons is better. Planting watermelons is relatively simple, and... the output of watermelons is higher .Cantaloupe, if it is not particularly well grown, the price is relatively average, not much more expensive than watermelon. It is quite troublesome to grow watermelon and cantaloupe..."

"The work in the field is not troublesome." Secretary Luo said.

Chen Shan said to Ye Mo: "Our production team has abandoned a lot of land. Afterwards, I want to sort out the abandoned land and try to plant a batch of watermelons or cantaloupe next year... You can give me guidance at that time."

Ye Mo nodded: "No problem. I'm still trying to save my own seeds. Last year's big watermelon seeds, I gave some to Ms. Xiaomian and the others. Let's see when those watermelons come out. If the yield is good, next year I can Offer some watermelon seeds."

"Yes." Chen Shan said with a smile: "Our village can be used as a pilot, and after we have experience, we can promote it."

Ye Mo doesn't recommend planting melons, that's because Ye Mo doesn't have cantaloupe seeds on hand.

These emerald melons are a hybrid variety. Many melons have been bloomed before, and the seeds in the pulp... are mostly empty shell seeds and tender seeds.Although some seeds can be taken out, it is a hybrid melon after all...

Hybrid melon seed?This seems to be no different from keeping hybrid rice seeds...

The hybrid rice is reserved for seedlings, and it will be uneven in the second year.

Ye Mo doesn't major in agriculture and doesn't understand genetics.But I also know that hybrid varieties don't leave good seeds.

(End of this chapter)