Song Yuanhuanzhi

Chapter 166 Fanmai
After Adi observed, he summed up what he had gained in the day, and after the Gao family came back from work, he continued to ask, "Uncle Gao, when did you start planting the wild wheat?"

The man called Uncle Gao was dressed in civilian clothes, and he felt a sense of exhaustion from years of hard work, but he was still in good spirits. He recalled, "It was around April and May."

It was the first time that Uncle Gao was so respected by scholars, and it was really a new experience.

Uncle Gao couldn't stop talking, "This kind of wheat is easy to survive when it is planted when the weather is getting warmer. In fact, it can be planted in March, but we want to plant rice, which will delay the time. What's more. If the wheat is planted one or two months later, it can survive."

Hearing Uncle Gao talk about rice, Adi thought of the green seedlings he saw in the field and asked, "Uncle Gao, you grow rice for two seasons, right?"

Uncle Gao nodded, "We grow early rice and late rice here. Early rice is planted in March, and late rice is planted in June."

Adi suddenly thought of it, and asked excitedly, "Then can this wheat be planted in two seasons?"

Uncle Gao thought for a while and said, "We really haven't thought about this problem."

Except for rice, they never thought that other crops could be grown in two seasons.

After a while, Uncle Gao shook his head and sighed, "Even if we can plant in two seasons, we won't be able to."

Adi asked suspiciously, "Why is that?"

Uncle Gao stomped the ground with his foot, "I'm not fat enough!"

"Mix the manure and barn manure for the paddy rice, and topdress the hemp field after the silkworms are fully decomposed. Where is the extra manure for the wild wheat?"

Adi nodded and wrote to remember.

Immediately, my younger brother asked Fu Yuanzhi, "Brother Fu, I remember that in the "Book of Songs·Zhou Song", there is a saying 'the tea will stop decaying, and the millet will stop growing'".

This poem shows that after the weeds rot, the field can be fertilized.

Fu Yuanzhi nodded, "Yes, Uncle Gao, you can pile up the weeds and use the current heat and rainfall to rot them, so that you can get more fertilizer."

Uncle Gao shook his head and said, "We have also used this method, but its fertility is still not enough."

In fact, it’s not enough, it’s just that everyone knows this method, how can there be so much grass to fertilize so many people.

It was spring, and I wished I could get rid of all the leaves on the mountain.

Everyone has a lot of paddy fields and hemp fields, and the demand is high, so we can no longer reserve excess fertilizer for other crops.

Adi was lost in thought and murmured, "How can we solve the problem of not enough fertilizer?"

Darongshu Village only grows rice for one season, and there is barely enough fertilizer, but Changliu Village is different.

Fu Yuanzhi looked at Adi in a daze, and didn't interrupt him, but took the topic and continued to ask the question of Fanmai, "Is Fanmai only grown in Changliu Village? Uncle Gao."

Uncle Gao shook his head, "All I know is that there are plants in several nearby villages, and everyone has some complicated relatives."

Fu Yuanzhi thought that he probably got the news from the married girl.

Fu Yuanzhi asked again, "How long have you been planting this wheat?"

Uncle Gao thought for a while and shook his head, "I've had it since I was born, so why would I want to ask how long it's been. It's been passed down like this for a long time, this wheat can be kept for a long time, as long as it is dried, take a piece of wheat You can get several seedlings with the same amount.”

As soon as Uncle Gao talked about planting wild wheat, he couldn’t stop, “When it’s raining and the ground is wet, I’ll dig the pond and throw in three or four seeds, and then two or three seedlings will grow. Hey, you say it It's really amazing. A grain the size of a fingernail can grow a stalk of sorghum, and one stalk can bear one stalk, and some of the good ones can even produce two! Most of us in our village People can have the present day, all rely on it to support."

"But it can't rain too much. I remember that there was a lot of rain in one year, and then they got sick, but they are still better than rice."

"Based on my experience, if there is too much rain and the sun doesn't come out, and if the rain is not dried in time, it will make it sick, and the harvest of mussels will not be very good, it will be sparse, and there will be a lot of weeds."

"It doesn't work if it's too dry, just like rice, it will affect its yield and quality."

"As long as the weather is good, the rain is not too much, and the drought is not too great, the wheat will grow very well."

Fu Yuanzhi continued to ask the doubts in his heart, "Just now you mentioned the seeds of wild wheat, how did you select and preserve them until the next year?"

Uncle Gao said with a simple look, "Just like rice, just dry them and plant them in the next year."

"When it's raining, the humidity is heavy?" Fu Yuanzhi asked.

Uncle Gao said, "Keep the fire, put it near the fire, or hang it on the wall of the kitchen, so that it will not get wet and damp in the place where the fire is often fired."

Note down by Fu Yuanzhi.

In fact, all crops have similar approaches but the same results.

The conditions of wheat and rice were similar before and after planting.

Uncle Gao thought of something more, and added, "Fanmai seedlings need to be inspected, replenished, thinned, and fixed."

"For example, if we throw in three or four, some good ones will all grow out, and some bad ones will only grow one or two plants, but too many will not work, so they will compete with each other for water, fertilizer and glory. In the end, a few plants will grow. They didn’t grow the wild wheat well, so you have to be willing to give up, and just keep the one that grows the best.”

"We also have a formula, keep the dense ones thin, the small ones keep the big ones, and the sick ones stay strong."

At this time, the elder brother who had come to his senses immediately wrote down the mantra. He looked at the fanmai and asked, "Can freshly picked fanmai like this be dried directly to make seeds?"

Uncle Gao quickly waved his hands and shook his head, "That's definitely not possible! We just leave them in the ground, break off the shells when they turn yellow, and put them under the eaves to dry in the sun. They can be used as seeds after a month or two."

Brother immediately wrote down this knowledge point.

If he wants to take some of them to make seeds, he has to wait for them to dry naturally.

In fact, when asked about this brother and Fu Yuanzhi, they also have a certain understanding of Fanmai.

It's just that there are many places that need to be sorted out again, and what I don't understand is summarized.

For example, what level of rainfall is suitable for its growth?
For example, what kind of temperature is suitable for his jointing, flowering, and grouting.

There are also differences in soil, fertility, and light. What will they grow because of these factors?

Brother wants to promote this fanmai, so he must understand all these clearly.

And there are people in Changliu Village and several nearby villages who are planting this variety of wheat, which provides him with a basis for understanding the practice.

So when Ah Di said that he wanted to stay here and wait for the next year to plant wild wheat, Song Huan and Fu Yuanzhi were not surprised.

And now he can also negotiate with Li Zheng to lend a small piece of land to try to grow the second season of wild wheat to see if it can survive.

If they can survive, the villagers in Changliu Village can grow two seasons of wild wheat, and they don't have to worry about food.

And because there is no shortage of fanmai here, we can also start from the perspective of fanmai itself to see if we can develop other unique fanmai on the basis of steaming and grinding into powder to make paste and cakes. Mai's recipe.

　I want to buy a book, but it's out of print. It's out of print.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)