Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 66 Queercai
Li Muyang was happy when he saw the waste bricks, certainly not because he wanted to imitate the old lady and also carved out a vegetable patch on the ruins to grow vegetables.

He was really interested in these scrap bricks.

As soon as he came back from rebirth, he discovered an important problem on Taoshan.

The peach trees on Peach Mountain have no scattered and concentrated advantages.

What is the advantage of dispersion and concentration? It means that trees will naturally transport nutrients to the nearest location, causing branches to subconsciously concentrate towards the center.

This feature is particularly deadly on many fruit trees.

Unlike many trees that do not need to pay attention to their ability to bear fruit, or whose fruits are small and do not require too much nutrition, fruit trees require very high-quality natural conditions for their fruit to bloom, bear fruit, and even mature. Otherwise, they will not be able to bear fruit smoothly. And finally mature.

Take the peach tree for example.

If the concentrated advantage of the peach tree is not removed, more of the peach tree's nutrients will be supplied to the middle branches, causing the surrounding branches to be basically unable to bloom. Even if they bloom, they will not be able to bear fruits due to insufficient nutrition, or the fruits will be very small and will not mature until the season. .

As for the branches in the middle, because the nutrients are not dispersed, there is a serious excess of nutrients. The branches and leaves of the tree will grow desperately, which is not conducive to flowering.

Even if it blooms reluctantly, it is too dense and the wind cannot blow in. Bees and butterflies do not like to get into the bushes, so it is difficult for the pollen to be pollinated evenly.

Even if they managed to pollinate, they would bear fruit, but because the branches were too dense, the sunlight could not get in at all, so the fruits could not mature and bear color, resulting in them being very old and still tasting very green...

In short, the advantages of decentralized centers are the basic knowledge of all fruit cultivation. After many years, this has basically become common sense among fruit farmers.

Before the trees take shape, people will hang heavy objects on the branches and use physical means to forcibly disperse the branches, and they will also regularly go to the top of the middle to take advantage.

Wait until the tree has grown to a certain extent and the branches have been fixed and formed. Then you can slowly remove the hanging weights and just prune them regularly.

Therefore, when walking in the orchard, you will often see many heavy objects hanging on the trees, and even the branches are directly pulled to the ground with ropes. This is the reason.

Li Muyang found that no one in the entire Taoshan branch was doing this kind of thing. It was probably because everyone had no experience in this area.

Of course, the first thing he did when he took over Taoshu was to disperse Taoshu's central advantage.

And perform targeted pruning.

This year we will not be able to catch up with the large-scale harvest of peaches, so we will make some basic adjustments.

Keep the tree in good shape until the next growth cycle.

If you are lucky, see if you can catch the last train from Wantao.

There are many varieties of peaches on Taoshan. The earliest peach trees are June Yellow, which means you can eat peaches in June.

The latest one is Xuemi. This kind of peach only blooms in June and July. In the cold winter, all the leaves on the tree have fallen, but the peach is still hanging on the tree.

People say that to eat this kind of peach, you have to wait until it snows.

It’s almost the same as winter apricot.

It's late April of the lunar calendar now, so if you're in a hurry, there's still some time.

But not many.

Li Muyang was standing on the edge of Nangou at the moment, looking happily at the many homeless waste bricks beside the ditch, wishing he could find them a new home immediately.

After a long time, he reluctantly left.

When Li Muyang returned home, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day.

The temperature difference between day and night here is huge.

It was only over ten degrees Celsius in the morning, and a cold person would shiver even if he put on a coat, but by noon, it was close to [-] degrees Celsius, and it was so hot that he was sweating profusely.

When Li Muyang returned home, he saw Xiangqin sitting on the threshold picking "bird vegetables".Que'ercai is actually shepherd's purse, a wild vegetable that most people have eaten but has not been artificially cultivated as a household vegetable.

Every year after March of Yangchun, shepherd's purse suddenly appears.

Usually in wheat fields or winter rapeseed fields.

So in this season, if you see many women squatting in the wheat fields, they are digging shepherd's purse.

The edible season of shepherd's purse is very short, and you can only eat it until the end of April. By May, the shepherd's purse will bloom with small white flowers, and the taste will change from the original sweet to slightly spicy.

If you continue to grow old, you will gradually become unable to eat.

People in Qingyang eat shepherd's purse in many ways.

And the ways to eat shepherd's purse are also different in different months.

For example, the shepherd's purse picked in early March is very tender and has a slight sweet taste.

Just wash it and mix it with salt, vinegar and cooked oil and chili pepper, and it will be a good cold dish.

By the end of March and the beginning of April, the shepherd's purse will slowly grow up and begin to have a faint spicy taste. At this time, the shepherd's purse needs to be blanched with hot water, then soaked with cold water, and then it can be made into soup or stir-fry.

By the end of April, the shepherd's purse has almost turned into an old shepherd's purse, and some of the early blooming eyes are covered with white flowers.At this time, the shepherd's purse has a very spicy taste, which makes it a bit difficult to eat if you eat it directly.

So, people picked them and boiled them with water to make buns or dumplings.

When making buns and dumplings, you must use slightly older vegetables. If the vegetables are too tender, they will turn into water when mixed with salt and other seasonings, and they will be so wet that they cannot be made.

Even if it is barely wrapped, it tastes tasteless and not enjoyable enough.

Seeing Li Muyang coming back from a distance, pulling a cart, Li Xiangqin was stunned for a moment, then threw the food in his hand back into the basket and ran over to help him push the cart.

It's an uphill road from the country road below to Li Muyang's three-room tile-roofed house.

This facilitates drainage.

Because of the perennial drought here, drainage has not been a priority for people.

Every time the weather changes suddenly and there is a heavy rainstorm, the water in the entire field will flood from all directions and in the lower direction.

Lijia Village is a terrain that gets lower and lower from north to south, and Li Muyang's house is located almost at the southernmost position.

If a big flood really happened, it would definitely reach the vicinity of his home first, then continue southward, and finally reach Malian Valley along the gorge sunken at the foot of Taoshan Mountain.

Li Muyang took this into consideration when he built three large tile-roofed houses, so he deliberately raised the foundations of the houses and turned the soil there to the sides to leave enough space for the water to drain away.

But there are times when this is inconvenient. For example, if he wants to pull the car home now, he has to pull it from a low place to a high place, which takes a lot of effort.

"Brother, did you buy a frame car?"

Li Xiangqin was a little unsure when she saw the new stand truck. After all, a stand truck was not considered a small item in this era.

Many people still don’t have a truck. Every time they want to haul something, they have to borrow it from their neighbors.

"Of course I bought it. How can I snatch one back from halfway?"

Li Muyang was very proud when he answered.

This is more than three years ahead of schedule in my previous life, and I am worthy of encouragement.

(End of this chapter)