Song Sancheng frowned and said, "Are you planning to plant rice on dozens of acres of land?"
Otherwise, we wouldn't need so much astragalus to add fertilizer, dozens of kilograms? Only five or six kilograms of astragalus seeds are needed for one acre of land.
Now it is the end of February and we are still wearing our down jackets. After March, the temperature will rise quickly. As long as there is no late spring cold snap and the temperature difference between day and night is not that big, most crops can be planted.
If you plant astragalus, you will have to wait until at least the end of April or May to turn the soil over and plant other plants... That's fine, it won't interfere with planting other plants.
According to Song Sancheng's farming experience, May is the best time to plant in rural areas. There are late spring cold snaps in March and April every year, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so the seeds will be frozen to death even if they germinate, which is not suitable.
But he felt uncomfortable thinking about spending so much money and wasting so much time at the beginning.
Song Tan thought about it for a long time last night, and now he was not in a hurry: "The two fields at the bottom will be used to grow rice for our family to eat."
The two plots of land together cover three or four acres, and now the rice yield is high, enough for the family to eat, and some can be given to relatives and friends.
Song Tan would not consider planting more. Growing rice is hard work, so he would not plant more.
You can also try raising fish in rice fields.
"I'll plant astragalus first to fertilize the other fields, and then when it warms up I'll plant vegetables."
Song Sancheng no longer objected: "It's good to grow vegetables, and they are easy to sell. I can ride a tricycle to the street to sell them when the time comes." The cost is low, the harvest is quick, and it is easier than growing rice.
Song Tan laughed: "Yeah, that's what I planned too." No wonder there are only a few people in the town
If you want to go, go to the city.
In fact, Song Tan thought about his work last night and had some other ideas - nowadays people like to watch rural videos to relieve stress and calm themselves, but there are so many rural areas, how can they quickly catch the attention
Either beautiful or unique.
Her hometown, Yunqiao Village, is really unremarkable.
In this case, we must focus on "beauty".
Milk vetch has a short growth cycle, is hardy and easy to grow, and its flowers are beautiful enough. When she shoots a video, the first shot will rely on the endless milk vetch fields to attract traffic.
Otherwise, with so many crops grown on the land and vegetables, when will they be able to become high-quality
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At the end of February, there were few people in the agricultural supply store. Song Tan asked for 70 kilograms of astragalus seeds, and the boss was also quite interested:
"How much land do you plant? Five kilograms of the original seeds are enough for one mu of land, and ten kilograms of the medicinal seeds are needed. The price is the same, 10 yuan per kilogram."
Original seeds are original seeds that have not been processed.
Medicinal seeds are wrapped with insect and disease prevention drugs on the outside of the seeds, and have good resistance.
Song Tan thought to himself that I can't grow spiritual plants for a hundred years in vain, so I still have some ways to repel insects, so I made a decisive choice:
"I want the original seeds!"
In addition to astragalus, other seeds also need to be bought, such as vegetable seeds, from the pakchoy with the shortest growth cycle to the peppers, eggplants, cucumbers that need to be raised... all need to be bought.
The seeds sold locally may not be as complete as those sold online, but for novices, they are the most adaptable. So when Song Tan bought the seeds, he spent more than a thousand yuan, and Song Sancheng was very upset.
Song Tan is still asking!
"Do you have rice seeds? I want good tasting rice."
The boss took a look and said, "Yes, this long-grained fragrant one has an incredible taste and you can't buy it for even ten yuan a pound. But the yield is low, only about 1,800 pounds per mu."
Song Tan couldn't help but sigh—technology is productivity!
In the world of cultivation, even if she used up all her spiritual energy to grow spiritual grains that had not been hybridized and optimized, the yield per mu was only five or six hundred kilograms.
"How do you sell it?"
The boss also said: "This seed is expensive, 80 per pound, and one acre of land needs two pounds."
How expensive can eight kilograms of seeds from four mu of land be? Thinking of the fragrant rice without impurities, Song Tan's mouth was watering:
"want!"
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Two thousand yuan was spent on buying seeds. Song Sancheng took a puff of cigarette and said earnestly:
"Tan Tan, there's no rush to buy things. Farmland is expensive, so you need to prepare a lot of money."
The tiller needs to be equipped with plows of different depths. If you buy it, you have to buy it separately. But since they rent it, they don't have this trouble.
But their fields had not been cultivated for many years, and they had to hire people to clear the weeds and trees, which cost at least 150 yuan per person per day. It took more than ten people to finish the seven fields in a day, and another 2,000 yuan was gone.
If we don’t hire someone, it will waste their time and affect their farming.
Then they had to light a fire in the field before they could plow the land, and they could plant after turning and drying the crops for two days.
Even though it is machine-operated, they can only deep-plow five acres of land a day at most. Fifteen acres would take three days and cost 1,500 yuan.
There will be fertilizers and pesticides later... When Song Sancheng thought about the money spent, he felt that his daughter spent too much!
"You grow so many vegetables, do you need to build a greenhouse to grow the seedlings? Don't you also need to hire people to dig the mountain? What are you going to do on the mountain?"
After calculating this way, Song Tan also felt a little numb.
Before the work even started, tens of thousands of dollars of the plan were gone.
Song Tan made a prompt decision: "Dad, let's not dig on the mountain for now. I plan to grow black fungus and white fungus on the mountain. I will use the oak trees on our mountain to grow fungus, so I don't have to clean up."
There are many oak trees in their area, also known as chestnut trees. This kind of wood is strong and durable when burned. This is the wood that Song Tan uses for his family's fire.
Of course, it is also a good material for growing black fungus and white fungus.
However, now people use fungus seed bags to plant directly, which has not been used for many years. As a result, the price of tree fungi has increased.
Song Tan vaguely remembered that this was how his family grew black fungus and white fungus when he was a child.
As a result, every household planted it, but the promised buyers did not come, so they could only dry it and store it at home, and ate it for several years.
Song Sancheng was numb.
—A kind of black fungus and white fungus
Then we have to cut down the tree and process the trunk? After cutting down the trunk with the appropriate thickness, we have to drill holes one by one on it and then fill it with fungus…
Because it takes up space and has low yield, it has been gradually replaced by the seed pack. But what Tantan said makes sense. Now people just want something that is pure and pollution-free. It doesn't matter if there is pollution or not. Anyway, it has less flavor than tree seeds.
Song Sancheng sighed.
But then I thought - forget it, there are so many oak trees planted here anyway, and they are so crowded on the hills, so it might as well cut down some of them.
It's much better than spending money outside.
Spend it, spend it, once the money is all spent, out of sight out of mind!
He said sullenly, "I'll go ask the person who sells the mushroom strains."
Seeing her father like this, Song Tan also felt uneasy - because she had purchased a computer and some accessories online last night, spending 8,000 yuan to ensure efficient post-production editing.
But, the flowers are all spent.
Song Tan then struck while the iron was hot: "Dad, clean up the pigsty at the door. Let's raise three or four pigs this year."
The food is delicious, but the meat must also be good!
Song Sancheng was about to jump up: "You have so much work to do, do you want to tire me and your mother to death?"
After thinking about the fact that pork is quite expensive now, he was actually quite tempted, so he relaxed his expression:
"We can't build a pigpen in front of our house now. The village says it affects the appearance. We also have to clean up the firewood shed."
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[Regarding tree felling, there are many hills in the countryside, and every household has trees. The tacit understanding is that if you cut them down, you have to plant them again, so there is no need to worry about cutting them all down.]
[There are scientific guidelines for growing fungi in the forest. The basswood white fungus we eat now is grown this way, but it is assumed that there is no basswood here, so we use local trees.]
[Regarding the plant pictures, I didn’t include any Easter eggs because I thought it would be troublesome for you. If you have any pictures, please post them in the chapter. If you are interested, click to see them. If you are not interested, just don’t read them. It won’t affect you.]
[If you have any other questions, feel free to ask them in the comments section. I will explain what I can answer. During the free period, I will put them in the chapters. In the later period, I will try to put the words in without taking up the word count.]