Because this is Li Yuan's first time planting 20 acres of vegetables at once, and he has never had such experience before. Because he was worried that the gold beads would not be effective enough, he used all the six he had saved.
However, judging from the current situation, it is just right for six golden beads to irrigate 20 acres of land. Although the seeds germinated a bit slower than those in the vegetable garden, it was enough to satisfy Li Yuan.
More importantly, although this kind of germination speed is fast, it has not yet reached the level of shocking the world. It can be regarded as a relatively good balance in terms of planting efficiency and ensuring unobtrusiveness.
Just imagine if Li Yuan just poured water, the seeds would germinate immediately and grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, it would be too scary. If such a thing really happened, even Li Yuan could not explain it with the excuse of "importing new varieties", and it would definitely attract the attention of others.
If such a thing really happened, in order to keep the secret of the peach pit, Li Yuan could only give up his investment in the vegetable base just now, pack up and leave secretly, and pray that he would never be seen by Chen Wenchuan and others again, then his loss But it's too big.
And now these vegetables are sprouting at just the right speed, presumably the speed of growth will not be too disappointing, so Li Yuan finally let go of his hanging heart.
In the next few days, all the vegetable seedlings grew gratifyingly. Just as Li Yuan hoped, the growth rate of vegetables was just controlled within a more suitable range. It is obviously faster than ordinary vegetables, but it is not to the extent of shocking the world. Let Chen Wenchuan and others have no more doubts than these imported vegetable varieties are indeed extraordinary.
A week after germination, all the leafy greens had two true leaves, and the tomato and cucumber seedlings were about an inch tall.
When Li Yuan arrived at the vegetable base that day, Chen Wenchuan had already found him, and made a serious suggestion: "Xiao Li, the vegetable seedlings are growing quite big now, shouldn't it be time to fertilize?"
When Li Yuan was growing vegetables in the vegetable garden before, he never fertilized except watering the water that melted the gold beads. So after hearing Chen Wenchuan's words, he didn't react for a while, and just asked casually: "Do you want to fertilize?"
Li Yuan's question made Chen Wenchuan feel a little unbelievable. He couldn't help looking at him like an idiot and said, "This is necessary. How can vegetables grow well without fertilization? It's also my fault that I didn't warn you in advance. It’s time to apply some fertilizer!”
Hearing Chen Wenchuan mention chemical fertilizers, Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat. Because both the appearance and the taste are top-notch, Li Yuan also intends to move himself closer to high-end vegetables. The current popular trend of high-end vegetables is undoubtedly to advertise that they have passed organic certification. One of the conditions for growing vegetables to obtain organic certification is that chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers cannot be used.
While Li Yuan was thinking about this issue secretly, Chen Wenchuan continued to say: "In addition to chemical fertilizers, pesticides are also indispensable. Although the weather is getting colder and there are greenhouses for protection, there will inevitably be some diseases and insect pests." , these problems cannot be ignored... "
"Village Chief Chen, you don't really need any of these." Li Yuan said to Chen Wenchuan after deliberation: "Didn't I tell you that these are high-tech vegetable varieties imported from abroad, besides watering...these pesticides and fertilizers are used It’s a waste, it’s better to save some money.”
Perhaps it was because Li Yuan's words were too shocking, Chen Wenchuan stared wide-eyed after hearing this: "How can there be such vegetables? They can grow well without spraying or fertilizing?"
"Uh...of course it's not exactly like this." Li Yuan also felt that what he said was too shocking, and quickly tried to remedy it: "We still need to apply some base fertilizer, just bury some farmyard manure in the ground every winter, and don't use anything else."
Although Li Yuan had already settled for the next best thing, and said to comfort Chen Wenchuan that he wanted to apply base fertilizer, Chen Wenchuan couldn't help but shook his head and said, "I don't believe it, there is no one who can grow good vegetables just by applying base fertilizer, Xiao Li, Don't be fooled by the seed sellers. I heard that those foreigners are bad, and they like to use high technology as an excuse to fool us when they have nothing to do. You need to be more careful!"
Knowing that Chen Wenchuan was doing it for his own good, Li Yuan was also a little touched, and said to him with a smile, "Don't worry, I have done a small-scale planting experiment, and there is really no need to fertilize."
After all, Li Yuan is the boss of the vegetable base. Since he said it so confidently, Chen Wenchuan couldn't continue to insist on applying pesticides and fertilizing, but couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "I want to see, if you don't spray pesticides or fertilize, these What kind of vegetables can grow."
Li Yuan said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, isn't organic vegetables popular now? They don't use pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Since others can grow them well, so can we. Our vegetable base should also grow organic vegetables, so that profits will grow." will be higher."
Hearing Li Yuan mention organic vegetables, Chen Wenchuan's doubts were much less. After all, organic vegetables only use farmyard manure, no pesticides and no chemical fertilizers. Thinking about it this way, Li Yuan's statement that he only needs to apply base fertilizer doesn't seem so unbelievable.
So Chen Wenchuan nodded to Li Yuan and said, "Okay, then I will tell other people the news, everyone is waiting to fertilize the vegetable fields."
"Then I will trouble you, Village Chief Chen." Li Yuan thanked Chen Wenchuan politely, then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly called Chen Wenchuan who was about to leave, "Village Chief Chen, I still have something to say to you." You discuss."
Chen Wenchuan said bluntly: "If you have something to say, you are welcome."
"That's right. You also know that my house is far away from here, and it's inconvenient to rush to and fro on both sides, so I want to set up a foothold on the side of the vegetable base." Li Yuan said with a smile on his face: "I think the vegetable base is close to the vegetable base." There is an empty house by the road, can you discuss with the owner of the house and lend it to me temporarily?"
Li Yuan's words made Chen Wenchuan very happy. In the view of the old village chief, Li Yuan's actions undoubtedly showed that he attached great importance to the vegetable base and really planned to regard vegetable growing as a future career. In today's impetuous society, there are really only a handful of young people who are willing to do this.
So the old village head immediately decided to support Li Yuan vigorously. He nodded with a smile and said, "It's easy. That house was originally built by the village committee. I'll say hello to the village and give it to you for free. Anyway, you already The vegetable field is contracted, and the house is next to the vegetable field, who will use it if you don’t want it?”
"Then I will thank you first, Village Chief Chen." For Li Yuan, this was definitely good news, and he immediately thanked Chen Wenchuan with a satisfied smile on his face.