Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 330 Catching Worms
In spring, all things are revived, and birds and beasts are also ushering in the breeding season. The beasts are like this, but in fact, people are also like this. In spring, it is very easy to move around.

No, Huang Dazhi took a fancy to a blind date and was about to get married, and Gao Mingwan also took a fancy to a blind date and was about to get married.

Huang Dazhi's wedding is coming soon, and it will be in 20 days or so, but Gao Mingwan's wedding will have to wait. Wang Xiuxiu's birthday is in June. The Wang family hopes that after Wang Xiuxiu celebrates her birthday at home, Married again.

But the following days were not good all of a sudden, so I had to postpone the marriage until August.

During this period of time, they have to be busy with their marriage, buying a house and buying various wedding supplies.Gao Mingcheng, a married person, seemed a little laid back.

The fruit trees bought from Shimen Village have already been planted. After two spring rains, the fruit seedlings are growing well and there are no problems.

However, when Gao Mingcheng inspected a batch of Tangerines planted last fall, he found that several trees were infested with moths.

Orange trees are the most prone to moths. People who have grown fruit trees should be familiar with this. Once a fruit tree is mothed, it must be cured as soon as possible, otherwise the fruit tree will die slowly.

In addition to orange trees, peach trees are also the most prone to insects.

In later generations, peach gum has also become a beauty product and is sought after by people, but how did peach gum come about?It means that the tree is infested with insects, or infected by fungi and bacteria, which causes skin damage, and then the bark will flow glue, and the glue will gather together to become golden peach gum. Over time, it will turn brown.

Once the peach trees flow glue, the yield of peaches will be reduced, and the glue flow parts will also rot, and even cause the whole branch or peach tree to wither.

Therefore, planting fruit trees does not mean that after they are planted, they do not need to be managed.

Its field management is also very troublesome. Once you don't manage it, the fruit trees will either die, or the fruit will not be much, or the fruit will be sour.

Gao Mingcheng's peach trees have just been planted, and they are healthy and disease-free, but it will be hard to say after that.

Seeing Gao Mingcheng holding a thick wire, Duomei asked curiously, "What are you doing with this?"

Gao Mingcheng said: "The orange tree is infested with worms. I use this to hollow out the wormhole and then catch the worms."

"By the way, we still have to take pesticides." Gao Mingcheng remembered that he didn't take pesticides, so he went to the miscellaneous room where pesticides and farm tools were placed, and took pesticides and some cotton.

"I'll go take a look with you." Many beauty said with interest.

During the time when she returned to the countryside, she had a very comfortable life. The food was made by Gao Mingcheng. Knowing that she couldn't eat rice and meat, she changed her vegetarian diet, so although she still felt hungry, she was more hungry than before. But it is much better.

"Okay, you follow and watch, but when the medicine is applied, walk away a little bit." Gao Mingcheng ordered, and then came to the worm-infested tree with a lot of beauty.

How to observe whether the tree has worms?Peach trees, apricot trees, cherry trees, etc. all secrete jelly. You only need to see these jelly to know that there is a problem with the tree and it needs to be treated in time.

But for trees that do not secrete jelly, you have to observe other places to see if the branches and leaves are wilting, and to see if there are insect droppings under the roots.

This batch of trees has not been planted for a long time, and even if there are worms, the worms are not big, so from the outside, the wormholes are small, and the excrement of insect excrement is also small.

Gao Mingcheng pointed to the root of one of the trees and said, "Look carefully, this small pile of sawdust-like things. These are insect droppings. I will empty out the insect droppings in the tree hole later, and then Catch the bugs out."

As he said that, he already squatted down and began to work with the thick wire in his hand.

Under his flexible control, the worm-eaten hole was hollowed out little by little. Because the tree is small and the worms are small, the hole is not big. Soon, the thick wire stabbed a worm and knocked it out of the hole. dragged out.

The bug wasn't completely dead yet, its body was still wriggling and struggling.

"Well, it's the larvae of longhorn beetle. It tastes delicious when fried. But it seems that pregnant women can't eat it." Gao Mingcheng showed it to Duomi, who was still writhing when she saw the fat white beetle larva. When I moved, I felt nauseated, turned my head to the side and retched.

Gao Mingcheng regretfully killed the worm and buried it with soil.

This pregnant woman can't afford to hurt.

"How beautiful, you should go to other places." Gao Mingcheng said, and then he was going to take cotton to dip it in pesticide, and then use a branch to stuff it into the wormhole and smear the pesticide everywhere.

Pesticides can play a role in killing insects. If you just take out the insects, then you can't cure them. After applying the pesticides, Gao Mingcheng blocked the wormholes with wet mud.

This is the same as when a person is injured and needs to be bandaged. Blocking the hole with mud and holes can prevent ants from crawling in to build a nest, and it can also prevent other insects from laying eggs in the tree hole.

Duomei went to the side to see the growth of other fruit trees. After there was no interference, Gao Mingcheng moved faster, and soon caught a few longhorn beetle larvae.

One of them was as fat as a little finger, it was full of protein!
Gao Mingcheng swallowed inexplicably, remembering that when he was a child, he really ate all kinds of bugs. At that time, the living conditions were too bad, and he often couldn't eat enough. When he was half a child, he would feel hungry no matter how much he ate.

So the worms and bird eggs in the mountains suffered. He ate all kinds of bamboo worms, beetle larvae, cicadas, locusts, and kudzu worms.

If there is no condition to fry it, put it on the fire and roast it until it is cooked, and then eat it while it is hot, it is very fragrant.

Gao Mingcheng was reminiscing about his childhood, but he didn't plan to eat these bugs. He was afraid that after seeing many beautiful things, he would even dislike the cooking pot.

But he didn't throw away the worm. He put it in a wider leaf and planned to take it back to the chickens. After eating the worms with high protein content, the chickens like to lay eggs.

When passing by his vegetable field, he saw a lot of weeds growing in the field, including many dandelions.

The recovery of all things in spring is indeed a good thing, but for farmers, weeding has become a daily routine. Otherwise, if you haven’t weeded for three to five days, you will be lucky enough to experience Tao Yuanming’s field life—the grass is full of beans and the seedlings are thin .

Tao Yuanming was not short of money, so he could grow grass and bean seedlings, but farmers who depended on the land for food did not dare to do this. They had to weed and fertilize frequently, hoping that the crops would grow vigorously and then produce food.

Gao Mingcheng also planted the vegetables that should be planted in the field. He would come back to the village every now and then, so vegetables had to be planted.

If country people go shopping for food, they will be laughed out of their teeth.

Gao Mingcheng put the worms, pesticides and other things back home first. As soon as the worms were thrown on the ground, a fat hen rushed up quickly, pecked at the worms on the ground, and the other hens also swarmed up, enjoying themselves Almost.

Gao Mingcheng went out again with a hoe and a bamboo basket. He planned to get some dandelions to eat. The dandelions in the field are very tender now, and they are edible wild vegetables. When the dandelions grow bigger, they will be another kind of wild vegetable. Herbs that can be used as medicine.

But for children, the deepest impression of dandelion must be its seeds.

The seeds are white balls, fluffy and cute. When the wind blows, the seeds fall off and go away with the wind.

The seeds are like parachutes, wherever they fall, a large dandelion will grow in the coming year.

(End of this chapter)