Sturdy and pretty daughter-in-law Shanlihan

Chapter 749 Digging the Vegetable Field 1
After the confession, Su Qingyue went back to the yard of her new home and looked at the newly opened vegetable field in the corner of the yard. The soil was all yellow and the soil had no nutrients at all. Needless to say, the vegetables grown in such soil were The vegetable seedlings are also small and yellow when they grow.

Aunt Zhang's voice came from outside the courtyard, "Is anyone there?"

"Here." Su Qingyue replied.

Aunt Zhang walked into the courtyard, "Girl Qingyue is here. I saw that the courtyard door of your new house was open. I passed by, so I stopped by to have a look." Seeing that she was holding a hoe and a few packets of seeds in her hand, "Qingyue Is Yue girl planning to grow vegetables?"

"Yes."

"The soil doesn't have any nutrients, and it won't grow well even if you grow vegetables. You need to apply some fertilizer." Aunt Zhang asked, "Do you have any fertilizer at home?"

Su Qingyue knew that there was no such high-tech thing as chemical fertilizer in ancient times. The fertilizer that Aunt Zhang said was the dung in the latrine, "Excuse me..."

Aunt Zhang looked at her with a look of embarrassment, "Girl Qingyue, don't you have enough fertilizer in your house? My family has a lot, or, how many buckets would you carry in my latrine?"

Su Qingyue knew that almost every household in the village had fields, and there were very few without any other fertilizers, so they could only use their own manure to irrigate. If it was not enough, they had to go to other people's houses to buy it.

She often saw villagers picking up cow dung on the road with bamboo baskets. At first, she didn't know what it was used for. She saw people drying cow and pig manure in the yard to dry.Later, I saw that the dried manure was mixed into the vegetable field when hoeing.

Only then did she know that the fertilizers in other people's homes were not enough, and she was reluctant to spend money to buy them from other homes, so she picked them up.

"No need, I don't plan to pour manure in the yard, otherwise, I'm afraid I won't have the appetite to eat if I live in the smelly new house." She said gratefully to Aunt Zhang, "Thank you anyway."

"That's right." Aunt Zhang said, "There are many families with large yards in our village, and they basically don't grow vegetables in their own yards. First, the yard is spacious enough to dry millet and dried vegetables. Second, the soil in the yard is not fertile. , the vegetables you grow can’t grow well. The yard of your new home is so big, and the vegetable plots you opened are all in the corners, which don’t take up any space at all. You really should grow a la carte. It’s not a problem if the land is not fertile without fertilizer. If there is no other way , the vegetables don’t grow well, so let’s just plant them, put some stove ashes on them, plant them for a few years, and the land will gradually become fatter.”

Su Qingyue nodded slightly.

After sending Aunt Zhang away, she saw some weeds that had not been cleaned in the newly opened vegetable field. She thought that some rotten weed leaves could be used as nourishment when they rotted in the field, and she added some stove ash. With such a good effect, it is always useful.

So, she took two empty baskets and went up the mountain to pick up piles of rotten leaves and weeds that had fallen from the trees on the mountain.

After digging a few earthworms in the black soil under the leaves, she directly made a large lump of soil to raise them temporarily, and then continued to dig earthworms until the lump of soil was almost full of earthworms before giving up.

The six vegetable plots dug up from the corner of her new house are all hard mud mixed with the loess from the small slope that was shoveled at the beginning. The soil is hard, dry, and yellow. Earthworms can loosen the soil when they are put down.

One morning, she picked two loads of rotten leaves, mixed in all the ashes from her own stove, smashed them, and spread them evenly in the six vegetable plots, and then put the earthworms in the big soil lumps into the six vegetable plots respectively.

Looking at the soil with some nutrients, a gust of wind blows through, and there is no smell in the yard.

(End of this chapter)