Back To Qiqi Farming To Raise Children

  Chapter 43 Coups to increase production

   "Divided into two teams, the front ones evacuate the sheds by strings, and the ones in the back cut the ginseng leaves with a sickle, and then started to ginseng."

  Xu Shixiang is the captain of the sideline job, so of course he was the leader of the work, and when he arrived at Shendichi Chuaner, he arranged how to do today's work.

  Chi Chuaner is also a special term for ginseng, which means a large soil ridge five or six feet wide.

  Due to the shape of the mountain, the terrain, and the direction of the pool, the length of the pool is variable. Forty or fifty feet more, twenty or thirty feet less.

  The surface of the ridge is called Chimianzi, and the ditch between two ridges is called Madao.

  The surface of the pool should be more than one foot higher than the horse track to facilitate drainage.

   Ginseng likes light but is afraid of light, loves water but is afraid of water, so every ridge must be covered with a ginseng shed.

  Block most of the sun and rain to ensure the growth of ginseng and not rot.

  The current ginseng sheds are all single-sided slopes, the length is slightly wider than the pool surface, and the rainwater flows into the horse trail along the ginseng sheds.

  Further back, when the special plastic film for ginseng ground comes out, the ginseng shed will evolve into an arched shape, with water flowing on both sides, which is more convenient.

  To start ginseng, the ginseng shed must first be removed. The ginseng shed is nailed up with wooden boards, and the boards can be reused, so naturally they cannot be damaged at will.

   In the past, if someone was poor and had no living materials after death, a coffin would be nailed with a mallet and board.

  The mallet board refers to the wooden board covered with ginseng.

  The big guys all came with tools, so a few people came forward with tools such as hammers and pliers.

  Remove the grass or linoleum on it first, then lift up the boards and stack them to the side.

  In the back, someone took a sickle, cut off the ginseng stems about ten centimeters from the ground, and gathered them together from the beginning to the end.

   After cutting the ginseng leaves, replace the sickle with a trident, and start digging the soil according to the remaining stalk traces.

  When planting ginseng, trenches are dug and planted according to a certain row spacing, so to grow ginseng, only need to place three teeth according to the distance of each row, so as not to damage the ginseng in the ground.

  Three-toothed, unlike a rake, has only three fingers thick teeth, the teeth are about eight inches long, each tooth is two or three inches apart, and the bottom end is pointed.

  Three teeth dig into the ground, and then lift up, even the ginseng and soil, a whole lump was dug up.

   Then kicked and shook lightly with his feet, most of the soil was shaken off, and then moved back and put it behind him.

   Follow the ginseng pickers to pick up the ginseng in the soil, shake off the remaining soil, and put it into a sack.

  This job is easy to say, but it is actually very tiring.

  Three teeth are not light, swung his head, shoulders are sore and painful.

  In addition, the person holding the three-tooth must be precise every time, so as not to hurt the ginseng in the soil, so the energy must be concentrated, and it will be very tired after a long time.

  As for those who picked up ginseng, it was not easy. They had to kneel in the ground and sort out the ginseng from the soil bit by bit.

   One planed and the other picked up, and the two made a frame.

  Ginseng is a delicate job, and it should not be too rough, so it is not fast.

  A pair of racks can be up to ten feet a day, and any faster will easily scratch the ginseng, or drop the ginseng and bury it in the soil.

  Xu Shiyan has been growing ginseng all his life, so he is very familiar with it.

   With the three-toothed tool in his hands, he is absolutely handy. Every time he digs out two or three ginseng trees, it will not hurt the ginseng at all.

   It was Zhao Jianshe, the second son of the Zhao family, who was picking up ginseng.

  The two cooperated very well, digging out all the ginseng in the soil and picking it up, not a single ginseng was left behind.

   "Third brother, this year's mallet is very good, how big do you think it is? I think the one just now can be worth three taels."

  Zhao Jianshe looked at the chubby ginseng in his hand and was very happy.

   "Well, this year's production should be pretty good.

  Actually, the staff in our team is still not good enough to handle the club. If we handle it well, it’s like playing with a stick. "

  Xu Shiyan swung his three teeth, chatting with Zhao Jianshe while working.

   "Huh? Twenty-five or six pounds? Can't you?

  Last year, our team’s production of ginseng land was pretty good, and at the end of the calculation, it was only seventeen catties per foot.

   More than 20 catties, so why not all of them go up in twos or threes? "

  Zhao Jianshe is young and has never heard that a foot of ginseng can grow more than 20 catties, so his eyes widened.

  Xu Shiyan smiled, "Did you know that sticks can actually be used for fat?

  Use bean cakes to fertilize in summer, and use it as base fertilizer when planting mallets in autumn. "Xu Shiyan remembered his experience of growing ginseng in his previous life.

  "Use base fertilizer when planting sticks. You don't need top-dressing in the year of new planting. In the summer of freezing, you can use bean cake water to top it up again.

  In the third year of making goods, one foot can increase production by at least six or seven catties. "

  Ginseng is planted in late autumn every year. The next year is called new planting, the second year is called freezing, and the third year is called making goods.

  Ginseng does not like common manure. If pig manure and chicken manure or other fertilizers are applied to the ginseng field, it will be directly burned to death.

  The only fertilizers that can be applied to ginseng fields are bean cakes and deer dung. It is difficult to get a lot of deer dung, and there may be a way to do it with bean cakes.

  Crush the bean cake and ferment it with water. Whether it is fermented bean cake powder or bean cake water, it can be used to fertilize ginseng, which can increase production and income.

  Zhao Jianshe was dumbfounded. He had never heard that ginseng could be fertilized before. They were all planted in the ground and let it grow by itself.

   "Third brother, is it true or not? Then if our team also top-dresses the sticks, wouldn't the production be higher?"

   "You think it's beautiful, right? Where can we get so many bean cakes?" Xu Shiyan shook his head.

  Nowadays, most people still can’t get enough to eat. Those soybeans in the team don’t know if they are enough to turn in the task. How can there be bean cakes to top up?

  Zhao Jianshe heard the words, his face was full of frustration, "Then isn't this just for nothing?"

  I thought there was a way to increase the production of sticks, but it was useless to make trouble for a long time.

   "There is also a way, the key is that your dad doesn't know whether to listen or not." Xu Shiyan smiled and dug out a few ginseng plants, and gave them back.

   "Have you seen the ginseng land that has been planted this year? It's five hundred feet long, so it's about ten acres, right?

  In the spring of next year, all soybeans will be planted. This land does not belong to cultivated land and belongs to our village. At that time, can't bean cakes be used for top dressing? "

  As long as you are willing to use your brain to think, there will always be a way, it depends on whether Zhao Dahai dares or not.

  Ginseng grows under harsh conditions, so it must be planted in old forest land, and the soil must be turned over after felling trees. It can be said that the forest is very destructive.

  However, for economic development, ginseng has to be planted, so the current method is to cut down the forest to plant ginseng, and then return the ginseng to the forest.

  The land where ginseng has been planted is running out of soil. In the second year after ginseng is planted, saplings will be planted in the ground. After many years, it will grow into a forest.

  The newly planted saplings are very small and do not actually affect the growth of the farmer. You can make a fuss about it.

  In Xu Shiyan's last life, he did this in many places.

  The ginseng soil after ginseng is contracted out, and a crop of soybeans or potatoes is planted.

  The soil where ginseng has been planted has greatly reduced its fertility, and other crops are not good, but soybeans or potatoes grow very well.

  Especially potatoes, which are much larger than those in the vegetable garden, and the yield is particularly high.

  (end of this chapter)