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Chapter 19 Dad's Complaint

heavy rain.

As expected, there was a power outage in the orchard.

The rain fell heavily, and some places in the east were flooded.

The water level of the two fish ponds in the orchard rose to about 2.5 meters.

It was still raining lightly, so Chen Mo walked around the fish pond holding an umbrella.Xiao Hei still followed behind, flicking his tail happily.

There is a lack of oxygen in the water, or too much rainwater has been injected into it, and there are many fish emerging in the pond.

Chen Mo went back and turned on the generator and the aerator in the fish pond.

Fish farming is actually quite afraid of heavy rain, especially this kind of sudden heavy rain, with a lot of rainwater pouring into the fish pond.

When Chen Mo returned home, he made egg fried rice with the leftovers from last night.Chen Mo ate a large portion and left half a bowl for Xiao Hei.

The rain stopped at noon, and the world after the rain has a faint earthy smell in the air.

Chen Mo woke up after taking a nap, but he hasn't called yet.The generator has stopped due to lack of oil.Looking at the big pond, the fish in the pond should have slowed down and did not float on the water.

Chen Mo put on his water pants, and was about to catch some duckweed when he came back, when he saw Xiao Hei coming back covered in mud.

Chen Mo kicked it gently: "Don't touch me, it's so dirty."

Xiao Hei made an aggrieved 'whimper' sound.

Chen Mo rode to Duckweed Pond.The water in the two duckweed ponds is more than one meter deep and is being drained outside.

Chen Mo jumped down and pushed the bamboo pole to gather the duckweeds into a pile.

It had just rained heavily, and there was a lot of rain in the fish pond. If I poured duckweed into it, the fish in it would not be very willing to eat it, so I didn't get too much back.

After this heavy rain, the temperature will get higher day by day.

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a few days later.

Parents still came over early in the morning, and Chen Mo was still sleeping.

"The cherries at home are ripe." Chen Ma said, "I picked some for you and put them on the coffee table in the living room."

"Okay." Chen Mo turned over and got up, and there was a stainless steel basin on the coffee table, which was full of cherries.

These cherries were ripe, sweet, with just a hint of tartness.

Chen Mo ate a few, put the cherries in the refrigerator to keep them fresh, washed the rice and cooked, and threw a piece of bacon into the rice cooker.

My parents went out to fish for duckweed.

Chen Mo went over to start the harvester to cut the alfalfa.

The alfalfa is in full bloom, reaching knee height.Pushing the harvester past, there is a long row of alfalfa.

After harvesting half an acre of alfalfa, my parents and the others also finished catching duckweed, and came to bundle the alfalfa and load it into the truck.

The leaves of the navel orange tree look particularly green and plump.The small fruits on the tree are densely packed, as big as the lower finger.

The flowering period of the tangerines on the mountain is coming to an end, and it is time to apply fungicides.

"Why is there no fruit?" Father Chen looked at the densely packed small fruits on the tree. These small fruits were very dense, like bunches of grapes.

"I manage it well." Chen Mo said.

"I need to comb the fruit." Father Chen said.

"Don't you have to wait until the fruit is stable before combing it?"

"There are too many fruits here. We need to pick some first and throw them away. Otherwise, if the fruits grow bigger, they may fall off in large quantities." Father Chen said.

Navel oranges have two natural fruit shedding periods. One is after the flowers fade, and a large number of small fruits will fall.

Another time the fruit drop was before the fruit swelled.

After two natural fruit drop, if there are still many fruits on the tree, it is necessary to manually comb the fruit.

But now the small navel oranges don't fall very much, and the small fruits are very dense on the twigs.If some fruits are not picked manually now, when these fruits are a little bigger, they may drop a lot.

After feeding the fish, we also prepare the fish and grass for the night.

After ten o'clock, the work was over, Chen Mo went back to have breakfast, and his parents were in the orchard, sorting out the fruits.

It has not yet entered the fruit stabilization period. There are too many fruits on the tree. Some fruits should be combed and discarded, but not too many.

First pick half of the fruit and throw it away.

Chen Mo calculated that there were about six to seven hundred fruits picked and thrown away from one tree.

Although these trees use spiritual springs, if you don't pick some and throw them away, not to mention whether the fruit trees can support such fruits, even the branches cannot bear the weight of too many fruits.

The diameter of the navel orange tree's crown is about three to less than four meters, and its height is just over two meters.The tree looks very big, but its fruit-bearing branches are still very thin.

If the branches are bigger, you can hang more fruits.

After combing the navel oranges, it will be May Day, and the Wokans will also be sprayed with fungicides.

The crown of the citrus tree is smaller, but the branches are larger, and there are many fruits on the tree.

Chen Mo came to the duckweed pond early in the morning. The temperature has risen in the past few days, but the breeding speed of duckweed has slowed down.

Chen Mo came over early in the morning, poured two buckets of spiritual spring into the pond, and started fishing for duckweed.

"Where's my mother?" Chen Mo asked when he saw his father coming alone.

"Your aunt and uncle are here, your mother is at home." Father Chen said.

Relatives and others knew about Chen Mo Nong's orchard, but they had never been there.

After living in Shenzhen for several years, Chen Mo is now a bit lonely.

Dad stood on the wooden bridge and gave Chen Mo a hand to load the duckweed into the car: "In the past two days, the duckweed has grown slower."

"We need to provide fertilizer." Chen Mo said.

"What kind of fertilizer to give?"

"Urea." Chen Mo said.
Duckweed can be used as fertilizer for farmers.However, in rural areas nowadays, pigs are basically no longer raised, and farmers have little fat.And applying farmyard manure is troublesome.

Urea is nitrogen fertilizer, and some trace element fertilizers should be given appropriately.The most important thing, the Lingquan, has fallen down.

"There are rice field eels and fish in the pond, if you give urea, aren't those fish and rice field eels going to die?" Dad Chen asked.

"These two ponds mainly raise duckweed. There are not many eels and fish in them. If they die, they will die." Chen Mo said: "We mainly raise fish from the big pond."

Father Chen let out a 'huh'.

If the fish in the big pond are well raised, they will earn more money.The eels and fish of these two duckweeds, if they die, they die, it doesn't matter.

At that time, more than 1000 yuan of eel seedlings were placed in these two fish ponds, which were not as many as the eel seedlings in the storage ditch.

These eels don't take much care of them. They just catch fish and throw them into the duckweed when they come back.But the main catch is that more fish are thrown into the ditch.

There are eels in duckweed, but they are difficult to catch.The floats are too dense, densely packed, and they all overlap.

Even if the weather gets hot, it will be difficult to catch these eels.

"Is there any water stored in the shoulder field?" Chen Mo asked.

"It's accumulated." Dad Chen said a little depressed: "There are a lot of things to do in the orchard, and Mom is still looking for things to do."

"When will the rice seedlings be planted?"

"Today. Your uncle and the others are here, as well as your uncle. Your mother called them and asked them to help plant the seedlings."

Chen Mo laughed: "Are they going to plant seedlings?"

"it's already over."

"In that field, where the soil is not turned over, the seedlings are planted directly after soaking in water?" Chen Mo asked.

"There's no time to dig the soil."

(End of this chapter)