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Chapter 15 Irrigation of Fruit Trees
Navel oranges bloom earlier, while oranges bloom later.

Chen Mo and his father spent four days applying fungicides to the navel oranges.

This year is drought again, and it hasn't rained for a long time.

Chen Mo's side is fine, the fish pond was just released.

Below a small slope of the big pond is a small pond, and there is a water storage ditch between the two ponds.

The ditch is more than one meter wide and two meters deep, and is filled with water.There were a lot of things going on some time ago, and Chen Mo also thought that it would rain soon after it hadn't rained for a long time, so he didn't irrigate the fruit trees.

Now day by day, it looks like it's going to be hot, and it hasn't rained yet, Chen Mo is a little flustered.

There were some navel oranges left after harvesting today. Chen Mo looked at the time and it was only after ten o'clock: "Dad, the navel oranges and mandarin oranges need to be watered."

Father Chen gave an 'hmm', and followed Chen Mo to seal off the orchard drainage.

Xiao Hei's dog followed Chen Mo and the others, and squatted on the ground and barked when it encountered a hurdle that it couldn't jump over.

Father Chen liked Xiao Hei very much. When he heard Xiao Hei calling, he turned around and picked up Xiao Hei.Xiao Hei looked at Father Chen shaking his head...

A smile appeared on Father Chen's face: "This dog is a bit comfortable."

"I like to follow people." Chen Mo took a shovel, shoveled the soil to seal the drainage channel of the orchard, and then stepped on it a few times.

"How many more drains?"

"Many." Chen Mo said.

"This orchard of yours is still very troublesome." Father Chen said.

"I'm doing well here." Chen Mo said, "If you want to make money, there's no trouble."

Father Chen went to the mouth of another ditch, shoveled the soil, and sealed the gap.

"Don't rain these two days. If it rains, today's work will be in vain." Chen Mo said.

"It shouldn't have rained for 20 days." Dad Chen said, "It's very dry today. In recent years, it has become more and more dry every year."

"In the past, there were paddy fields everywhere in the countryside. In recent years, there are no ponds anywhere," Chen Mo said.

Paddy fields store water all year round.

Especially in some areas where water diversion is inconvenient, paddy fields are even more common.

The east side is mountainous, and the land types are mainly hills, low mountains, valleys, and troughs.

There are big hills in the hills, and there are big hills on the Chongshan side. There are no hills, but is there a large piece of flat land.The ground is undulating, and the farmland is full of high and low hills.

There are no rivers in these places.

In the past, when rice was grown, there were special water storage fields.There is water in the paddy fields all year round...

The source of water is mainly summer rain.

It is rainy in summer to the east.

"The climate has changed in recent years." Father Chen said.As far as their village is concerned, it is not that there are no paddy fields, but the paddy fields... seem to be unable to store water.

It rained a lot in the summer before, and there was a heavy rain every two or three days.

The return date has not yet been announced, the night rain in Bashan swells the autumn pond...

Bashan is Bashu.

On the east side, Chen Mo remembered that it often rained and thunderstorms at night when he was a child.It rarely rains heavily during the day.

Anyway, since Chen Mo was a child, he had never heard of drought or water shortage in Sichuan.

In the past two years, Chen Mo's feelings are quite deep, that is, the local rainfall has indeed decreased a lot.

Hours later, in the countryside, all the small ditches were filled with water.

In today's rural areas, every small ditch is filled with grass.

Managing fruit trees used to be easy.

Now to manage the fruit trees well, without watering, it seems that it is not enough.

Like Wogan, to prepare for the winter, you need to water it well.Otherwise, the tangerines after the new year will have very little moisture, and may even be dry.

Now in April, there was a light rain in early March.Then there is often a lot of sun, and many lands are dry.

Chen Mo himself felt that it would be better to water this orchard.Now that it is fruiting, it should need water.

After combing the water channels in the orchard, Chen Mo and his father carried the water pump out.

Father Chen helped connect the water pipe, and Chen Mo started the water pump to pump the water into the orchard.

The orchard has drainage channels and irrigation ponds.

Irrigation tanks are about the same size as cesspools commonly seen on farms. Water passes through drainage channels and can fill many reservoirs.

It takes a long time to pump the water.

Chen Mo has a micro-dug, and the reservoir in the orchard was dug out by Chen Mo himself, just in case there will be a drought in the future.

"Let's be dry." Chen Mo said, "It's better to be dry. The more dry, the more valuable the fruit."

Dad gave Chen Mo a blank look, picked up the dog and went to the opposite side: "I'll go over and watch, and call you when the water is full."

Chen Mo smiled and nodded, observing along the ditch.

This ditch is very long and divides the orchard into three parts.

One part is above the big pond, and the other part is around the small pond.Finally, there are hillside terraced fields...

The ditch is T-shaped, and 'one' is the ditch under the hillside.

The fruit trees on the hillside also need irrigation, and there are reservoirs.

It hasn't rained much this winter, and the water reservoir in the orchard has long been out of water.

Fortunately, there is foresight.

If these reservoirs were not dug in advance, it would be too late to dig them now.

Along the ditch, Chen Mo saw a big fish 'Gudong' coming out of the water.

For the fish Chen Mo caught, the small crucian carp was kept in the duckweed pond, and the big crucian carp and carp were kept in the ditch.There are also many eel seedlings and lobster seedlings in the ditch.

I saw some crayfish last summer, but now, there probably aren’t many left.As for eels, there should be quite a lot.This is a storage ditch, not a drainage ditch.

The water storage ditch stores water all year round, and the water outlet also flows out from the drainage ditch of the orchard, passing through several reservoirs along the way.When the water rises, some eels will definitely run away, but there must be more left behind.

The eel from Donglin is very expensive.

Breeding eels cost more than 40 yuan per catty.Wild eels are said to be close to a hundred yuan.However, these market prices are guaranteed to be killed.

It would definitely be much cheaper to sell to vendors.

The eels here in Chen Mo can be sold as wild eels.The weather is not hot now, so catching eels is troublesome. When the weather gets hot, just grab a pair of pliers and a flashlight at night and just go out and catch them.

After pumping water for a day, more than a dozen reservoirs in Daqiu were finally filled with water.Before dark, the water in the ditch was released, and today's work is considered complete.

In the evening, Chen Mo made a homemade carp.

Carp is first fried in oil until both sides are browned and fried thoroughly, followed by sauerkraut.Sauerkraut has sour chili, sour ginger, etc., and then add bean paste.

There is a bit too much oil. Add the fish directly after the sauce is fried until fragrant. There is no need to add water. Change to low heat and cover the pot for five or six minutes.

This method makes the home-cooked fish particularly delicious.

Chen Mo took out the beer, opened it and handed a bottle to his dad: "Did you call mom?"

"After the fight, we'll stay here tonight." Dad looked at the phone and took a bite of fish: "It tastes good."

"That's for sure. Chef Chen's skills are worthy of trust." Chen Mo said with a smile.

Chen's father picked up a piece of fish for Xiao Hei: "You have a skill, so I will cook for you when the family entertains you."

(End of this chapter)