Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 339 Those Things in the Field
After several spring rains, the large and small reservoirs in the village gradually filled with water, and the fields were also in a semi-humid state. This made the villagers who had experienced the drought for half a year feel very happy.

The water level in the pond at the foot of Xiaofu Mountain is already five-fifth full. There used to be underground springs here, and it is located at the foot of Niuwei Ridge, where the water from the mountain will slowly gather.

When Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs by the edge of the pond, he looked at the clear water in the pond and thought about buying some fish fry. As for the ducks, he didn't plan to raise them for the time being.

It's just that there are many mountains and little water here, and there are no local fish fry to sell, so they have to go to the next county to buy them.

There are rivers and lakes in the next county, and the lakes are connected to Poyang Lake, so there are fry for sale.

Gao Mingcheng was not in a hurry to go up the mountain, but went to see Huang Jingmiao first.

The Rhizoma Polygonatum has already emerged. Because there are few seeds, when he sows, the spacing is deliberately wide, so that when the seedlings emerge later, there is no need to pull out too dense seedlings.

But in this way, Huang Jingmiao seemed a little sparse.

He checked the growth of Huang Jing seedlings, and there is nothing wrong with it. These seedlings will be cultivated in situ for one year, and then they can be transplanted to other places after one year, and then they will be planted for another three years before they can be harvested.

Of course, if it is directly propagated with the rhizome of sealwort, then it can be harvested in one or two years.

This characteristic of sealwort is similar to that of yam. If it is propagated with yam beans, it will take several years to harvest, but if it is directly propagated with yam roots, then it can be harvested in the same year.

Naturally, Gao Mingcheng would not foolishly wait for three or four years to harvest this batch of sealwort, but would use this batch of sealwort for root propagation in the second year.

In the early spring of the next year, he dug out all the sealworts, directly selected the tender part of the apex, cut it into several sections, and dried them for about 3-4 sections in each section before planting.

In this way, he can harvest more sealworts in the same period of time, and he can continue to use rhizomes to reproduce.

Of course, this is a long-term plan, and he doesn't need to do anything in the short term, he just needs to ensure that these Huang Jing seedlings can thrive.

After crossing the Huangjing seedling field, there is a sloping field in front of it. The sloping field has not been cultivated yet, and it is full of weeds. Gao Mingcheng decided to reclaim this sloping field tomorrow, because he plans to plant cassia seeds here in late April.

Cassia seeds have tenacious vitality, so they don’t need to be planted in very good land. Some wastelands and slopes can be planted, and there are many wild cassia seeds in other villages, but Gaojia Village does not have them, so he has to rely on planting. , can be harvested.

Cassia seed is also called false mung bean, because it looks a bit like mung bean, but in fact it is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, which has the functions of clearing the liver, improving eyesight, and laxative. Corneal ulcers, glaucoma, carbuncle furuncle sores and other diseases.

But for ordinary people, the more familiar usage is to soak water with cassia seeds and drink it. If you drink it regularly, it can clear the liver and improve eyesight.

This herb is easy to grow and has a wide range of uses, so after Gao Mingcheng received cassia seeds from other villagers last year, he decided to grow some himself.

He chose some corners and slopes, and planned to plant in these places.

Walking up the slope, he soon came to the place where the bayberry was planted. He had high hopes for these Dongkui bayberry trees, so he looked around carefully under the bayberry tree, but did not find any After anything goes wrong, continue to walk forward.

The quality of this batch of fruit seedlings is good, and there is a lot of rain this spring, so they don't need much care, and they have grown well. So far, there has been no phenomenon of withering.

After crossing half of the mountain forest, I finally came to the place where peach and pear trees were planted.

When these fruit seedlings were transplanted, there were already a few flower buds, and now the flowers have already bloomed, leaving only a few withered flowers hanging on the branches.

These flowers are almost fruitless, because peach trees need to be planted for three years before they can bear fruit, and this batch of fruit seedlings is at most two-year-old seedlings.

However, peach trees grow relatively fast. If they are planted well this year, they will grow a lot next year, and they should bear fruit.

Gao Mingcheng thought about this, but noticed that a few peach blossoms didn't seem to have completely withered and withered, and there were small, fluffy green balls at the position of the flower's buttocks. This is a small peach!
Not bad, it's a windfall, you can taste the taste of this batch of peach trees in advance.So he decided to wait for a while before fertilizing these fruiting peach trees.

I went to the pear tree again. It takes longer for the pear tree to bear fruit, about five years. If it is grafted, it will be faster. The fruit seedlings sold to him by Shimen Village are from various sources, so some fruit seedlings are grafted and multiplied. , and some are native species.

Therefore, this batch of pear trees is not to be counted on for the time being, and we will wait for a few years to grow them.

Gao Mingcheng walked all the way up and soon reached the top of the mountain.

The entire Xiaofushan is in the shape of a hill, with mostly gentle slopes, only one side is steeper. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the whole mountain.

The top of the mountain was still a little bare, because he hadn’t gone to the deep mountains to dig more camellia trees, so he decided to take the time to dig some back, in case the weather became hot, it would not be suitable for transplanting trees.

After turning Xiaofushan around, he went to his own vegetable field.

The ground has been turned over here before, and the cow dung and sheep dung piled up in the winter are broken up and mixed evenly in the soil, which can increase the fertility of the land. Therefore, the seeds planted in early spring are growing gratifyingly now.

Because pepper seeds are sown densely, after emergence, they are densely packed together.

So he squatted down, prepared to thin out the seedlings, pulled out some secondary seedlings, and then waited for these pepper seedlings to grow to about the length of an adult's palm before they could be transplanted.

The whole day, Gao Mingcheng was busy in the mountains and fields. When he was hungry at noon, he cooked a bowl of noodles casually, and put two eggs in the noodles, which was considered lunch.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, he came down from the mountain with a bundle of camellia saplings in one hand and a hare in the other.

When digging camellia saplings, he happened to meet a hare, so naturally he couldn't be soft, he held the throwing knife on his fingertips, and with a throwing motion, the hare was killed.

After planting all the dug camellia trees, Gao Mingcheng carried a basket and the hare to Gao Shouwang's house.

In the basket, there were six catties of honey and a bottle of special wine that Gao Shouwang wanted.

Well, tonight's dinner is settled!

Gao Mingcheng was in a great mood, whistling all the way, the black tiger and the elf were very clingy to their master, and followed him every step of the way, one person and two dogs, striding forward.

(End of this chapter)