My village can't be like this

Chapter 184 Fruit thinning and pollination

"Anzi, you didn't get it too early. If you haven't eaten, I'll ask your second grandma to make it for you."

When he arrived at Huang Erye's house, Huang Erye remembered to ask Zhang An if he had breakfast.

"Second Master, don't bother, our family has already eaten in the morning."

When Huang Erye found Huang Ming and his son, the group set off for their plum field.

Zhang An thinks that fruit thinning is the same thing, that is, if there are too many fruits on the tree, pick some for it to reduce the pressure on the branches.

Just like people, when picking things on your body, don't pick them too heavy, or you won't be able to go far.

Planting has sprung up in later generations, and many people have talked about fruit thinning in a very profound way.

For a while it was ruled like this, and for a while it was ruled that way.

But no matter what is said or not, and the principle is not principled, as long as it is fruit thinning, the bad fruit must be removed first.

Then look at the density of the fruit, and the location of the fruit, whether it is on the side of the branch or below the branch.

Finally, these are all ruled out, it depends on the size of the fruit shape.

In short, in one sentence, admission is based on merit.

While Zhang An was explaining to Huang Erye's grandpa, grandson, father and son, he pulled a tree and began to thin the fruit for them to see.

There are indeed too many green fruits this year, and by the time Zhang An completes fruit thinning, there will only be about half of the plums left on the tree.

Zhang An finished all the points that needed attention, and let the three of them, grandson, father and son, do it themselves.

After all, they've been talking non-stop, so it's better to let them try it themselves.

This is just like reading a book, holding the book for a long time, and listening to the teacher with your ears for a long time.

It's better to do a few exercises by yourself after listening to it and have a deep understanding.

It was the first time for Huang Erye's family of three to do such a job.

Although Zhang An said so much just now, there are many things that Huang Erye and Huang Dabiao didn't remember completely.

On the contrary, the young Huang Ming had a good memory, and he memorized all the most important points Zhang An said.

But it's okay, just learned it, it doesn't matter if you can't remember it.

Anyway, Zhang An is still here, so if you don't understand and can't remember, just ask.

After everyone grabbed two plum trees and carried out fruit thinning, the three of Huang Erye had basically mastered the essentials.

Anyway, that's what fruit thinning is all about, just look at it.

If it is straightforward, there are reference answers just like the exam.

It is impossible for Zhang An to do everything by himself.

At noon, Grandma Huang had already prepared lunch.

At this moment the old lady ran to the field and told everyone to go back to have lunch.

From morning to now, each of them has sorted out the progress of three or four fruit trees.

Because they just started fruit thinning in the morning, they are not very familiar with it, and the speed is relatively slow.

Moreover, the plum tree in Huang Erye's house grows bigger and has more branches.

Over the years, there has been no serious fruit.

This year, the fertility has finally caught up, and each of these plum trees is as if they have been held back for many years.

There are more fruits on the tree, and there are many fruits that need to be picked, so naturally it takes more time.

Zhang An's hands were quicker, and there were a few more trees than the others.

According to their speed, the size of about ten trees per day.

It is estimated that it will take several days to plant more than 100 plum trees in these two acres of land.

Zhang An was there at noon, and Second Grandma Huang cooked a lot of dishes, most of which were meat dishes.

There are also a lot of stewed chicken with bacon, and I also took out the pork legs that were marinated last year.

"Second Grandma Huang can just make something casually, it's the same as making wine."

Zhang An looked at the table full of dishes, this Second Grandma Huang was too polite.

"This is just doing it casually, you are welcome, Xiao An."

As Grandma Huang said, she also placed some hard dishes in front of Zhang An.

"Xiao An came to eat food, you don't often come to the second master's house for dinner, today I want to treat you well."

Huang Erye smiled and poured some wine for Zhang An. Although it was noon, it was okay to have a sip.

Zhang An picked up a piece of bacon and put it in his mouth, and found that the meat was very delicious.

Although it is bacon that has been smoked, there is still a lot of oil in the meat.

It tastes not dry at all, fat but not greasy, and does not feel salty at all.

It's not the same as ordinary bacon, even the bacon smoked by Zhang An's family.

It still tastes a little dry.

Moreover, the bacon was marinated with salt water before being smoked, so even if the bacon was cooked and then fried, it still had a salty taste to some extent.

"Second Master, what do you use to smoke your bacon? Why is it so delicious?"

"I just used green bar trees and arborvitae to fumigate. You forgot that I went up the mountain with you last year to cut it."

Although Huang Erye said so, Zhang An still felt that something was wrong. His own family also smoked like this, so why is there such a big difference.

"That's not right, our family's is also smoked with green bar tree and arborvitae, but it's different from your old smoked ones."

When Huang Erye heard the words, he chuckled, "And you know, when the meat is smoked, the fire can't be burned all the time. It can be heated up in the first two days, and then it has to be smoked slowly on a low fire."

"How many days will it take if the fire is too small?"

"Smoke it for a few more days. Our bacon has been cured and put on the shelves, and it has been smoked until it is born."

Many people's smoked meat, including Zhang An's, usually smoked for about ten days, and then it was almost taken off.

It's no wonder that the smoked meat is delicious, because other people's cooking is more delicate and time-consuming.

"Then I'll try the same when it's time to bacon this year. This is considered bacon, and what I usually eat is nothing."

After getting advice, Zhang An will definitely try it out this year.

"And your bacon doesn't taste salty, how did the second master pickle it?"

"This is the bacon recipe I came up with myself."

The former Huang Erye often brought back some mountain products from the mountains.

Game such as pheasant and hare are generally not sold now, and their family must be reluctant to eat it all at once.

So most of them are marinated and made into waxed chicken and rabbit for storage.

However, the usual marinated chicken and rabbit, Huang Erye felt that the taste was not good after eating too much.

So I just figured it out by myself, thinking about how to make it delicious.

During this process, a lot of pheasants and hares were wasted, which was said by Grandma Huang every day.

It took a long time to finally come up with a satisfactory bacon recipe.

Hearing that it was Huang Erye's own formula, Zhang An didn't open his mouth to ask again.

But Huang Erye didn't wait for Zhang An to open his mouth, so he took the initiative to tell him the recipe of bacon.

"Anzi, don't go this afternoon. Your family still has work to do, and there's not much left. We'll finish it in a few days."

After eating, Huang Erye said to Zhang An.

Today, Zhang An's family also has work, and they are spending money to find someone to make a living.

He called Zhang An over early in the morning, already a little embarrassed.

But no one in my family knew how to do fruit thinning before, so no matter how embarrassed I was, I could only trouble Zhang An to come over.

Originally, I wanted to ask the old lady to help Zhang An's family weed, but this way no one at home would cook.

Now several people in the family have already learned how to thin fruit, so there is no need to continue to trouble Zhang An.

Although you are not familiar with it now, you can do it slowly, and you will become familiar with it next year if you do more.

"Okay, Second Master, I'll go back first, and come to me if you have anything to do."

Zhang An agreed after thinking about it, and he was not polite to Huang Erye.

There are more than 100 trees in their plum field, and it is estimated that they will be finished in the past few days.

For the rest, just train them.

After Zhang An went back, he didn't see his father and mother at home.

Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo had finished their lunch early at noon, and now they were wearing bamboo hats and weeding in the melon field with everyone.

Before Zhang An went to the field, he found that all the weeds in the watermelon field had been hoeed.

Originally, Zhang An was quite curious, how could their speed be so fast.

When I got to the field, I found out that it was because someone was helping.

Except for the people Wang Fang called to weed, there are quite a few people pulling weeds in the fields.

These are families with livestock in the village. Except for the cold winter months, everyone will go outside to mow grass.

So this morning, there were a few families in the village who were going out to mow the grass.

When they walked to the river, the people who were weeding in the melon field chatted.

I found that the grass in the melon field of Zhang An's family grew more pleasingly than that in the rapeseed field.

So they didn't go to drill the rapeseed field at all, but mowed grass in Zhang An's melon field.

They didn't even cut the grass so tall with a sickle.

Instead, the grass is uprooted first, bundled into bunches, and finally the roots are sawed off with a sickle.

Because everyone is a farmer, this kind of grass cuts off the upper half, and the grass roots buried in the soil are not easy to shovel.

Usually, when we weed the cornfields at home, we pull out the weeds by hand first.

Then use a hoe to weed the grass, so that the speed is much faster, and there is no need to worry about the hoe hurting the crop seedlings.

When they went home with the grass on their backs, they also met many people who went out to mow the grass.

When you see such lush young grass, you will definitely ask where it was cut.

After all, pigweed that grows green and tender is what livestock like to eat the most.

Many people heard that these grasses were all mowed in Zhang An's nest.

Moreover, Zhang An's family has already found many people and they are weeding. If they don't go there, they may be finished.

So those who were going to mow the grass rushed to Zhang An's melon field with baskets on their backs.

In this way, more and more people lived in Zhang An's melon.

Wang Fang originally invited seven or eight people, but in the end the number of people in the field doubled.

They pulled it out first, and then everyone weeded very quickly.

There are still many people who have already carried a basket home, and then come back to continue cutting.

What's more, he pulled a pile of green grass and sawed it in the field, and then brought the family's horse over to carry it.

Anyone who has mowed grass in the countryside knows that it may take a long time to go out to mow grass.

No one is willing to walk that far with such a heavy pigweed on their backs.

And Zhang An's nest happened to be at the entrance of the village, so there was no need to travel far.

They all knew that Zhang An's family was in a hurry to hoe the grass.

So after cutting a basket one by one and carrying it home, they came back to continue cutting.

Because maybe tomorrow, the grass in this field will be hoed up.

Just doing this for a morning, let alone enough for the family's livestock to feed for a few days, why not do such a thing.

Zhang An saw that their speed was quite fast, so he didn't go to the field to help.

Since Erye Huang's family is thinning fruit, it's time to thin the plum trees in his own house.

Maybe because the spring has been watered too much, there are many more fruits hanging on the plum tree than in Huang Erye's house.

Many branches on the plum tree were bent because of too many plums.

When Zhang An was thinning the plum trees, many people watched.

They all couldn't understand why Zhang An had to pick off so many unripe plums when the plum tree was growing well.

Because in their cognition, it is nothing but crops, or what, the more knots the better.

Zhang An smiled, and slowly explained to them the benefits of doing so.

Only then did everyone know that after planting a fruit, there are so many ways in it.

This is like the principle that nine out of three is not as good as twenty in five.

The next day, Zhang An found the second uncle and third uncle's house.

"Second Uncle, Third Uncle, the sheep peaches that are planted at home need to be pollinated."

Yesterday he went to Qing's foot to have a look. The kiwis that had been planted had already bloomed.

This kiwi fruit is different from other fruit trees, they need to be artificially pollinated.

Even though there are various insects such as bees and butterflies during this period, the pollination rate is still not high.

In the end, the result rate is not ideal and the output is not high.

Therefore, in order to improve the pollination rate, it is still necessary to carry out artificial pollination.

When the sheep peaches were first planted, Zhang An told them about this.

"Then don't do other things first, go and do the pollination method that Xiaoan said first."

Although there is work at home during this time, I am not too eager to do it, so I can put it aside first.

Moreover, the flowering period of kiwi fruit is short, so you can't do it if you don't hurry up.

Then Zhang An asked Zhang Tie to call Zhang Laosan over, and their family also planted a few acres of land.

So in order to save trouble, Zhang An planned to call him over together and teach them all together.

Ordinary kiwi fruit will not bear fruit in the first year because it grows too slowly.

However, the kiwifruit saplings selected through space grow much faster.

It's just not that exaggerated, a small part of the flowers bloomed in the first year.

However, this is already a very good speed, otherwise it will have to wait a few years.

"Anzi, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, Zhang Tie said you are looking for me."

"Third brother, the sheep peaches have bloomed these two days. I plan to tell the second and third uncles about pollination, and I just called you over. You shouldn't be busy this year."

They are all from the village, so they will help if they can.

And Zhang Laosan's seedlings were bought from Zhang An.

At that time, at the house of Zhang An's two uncles, the vines were covered with fruits.

Due to pollination problems, their family did not bear a few fruits by then.

Maybe when the time comes, he will feel that Zhang An has cheated him by cheating him.

"It turns out that this is the matter. Even if there is something to do, you have to put it down first. There is no more important thing than harvesting the millet."

As soon as Zhang Laosan heard that Zhang An wanted to pollinate them, even if there was anything today, he would push it away.

Otherwise, if I go to find someone alone another day, they may not be free yet.

(End of this chapter)