Running with the ball in the lean years, the evil mother-in-law and the whole family regretted it

Chapter 143 Raising Seedlings

Humid and warm temperatures are more conducive to the growth of rice seeds.

Temperatures that are too low will affect the rooting and germination of rice seeds, and may even freeze the rice seeds to death.

In such a busy time, it took Baitaotao a whole morning to prepare the Sanlong Field.

Just as he was about to pack up and go home for lunch, Chen Lizheng happened to go down to the wheat field to take a look at the wheat. He saw Bai Taotao tossing in the field, so he came over curiously and asked: "Daughter-in-law Youyi, what are you tossing about?" "

Bai Taotao smiled: "This is a secret for the time being. I will tell everyone if it succeeds after a while."

After hearing what Bai Taotao said, Chen Lizheng naturally didn't ask any more questions, and then turned around and went to another wheat field of his house.

In order to achieve the success of double-cropping rice, Bai Taotao has been going to the rice fields every day these days to check on the rice seedlings. If the ridges are dry, he will open the tarp and pour some water on the ridges.

If the temperature is too high, open the oilcloth to ventilate it and lower the temperature slightly.

And you must always pay attention to the growth of the seedlings.

The next day, all the rice seeds that were planted had sprouts. Although they were less than one centimeter, it at least meant that the rice seeds were alive.

On the third day, the seedlings grew a lot taller, almost two centimeters tall.

In rural areas, there is a saying called "see the wind and grow", which describes the growth speed of plants.

At this time, the seedlings in Baitaotao's experiment were like this, and they were able to see the wind.

On the fourth and fifth days, the seedling leaves quickly grew from one to two, and they were almost six or seven centimeters tall.

At this time, when the temperature is high during the day, you need to lift the oilcloth, and cover it again when the temperature is low at night.

The lifting and covering of the oilcloth depends on the temperature at that time and the growth of the seedlings.

In addition, some water can be put into the rice field at this time.

By about the tenth day, the seedlings have almost begun to branch.

It is already early March, and the weather has become much warmer. The tarpaulin can be removed, and then some water can be put into the rice field appropriately to ensure that the rice seedlings have enough water to grow.

When the tarpaulin was removed, revealing the green seedlings in the field, many villagers who were looking at winter wheat in the field immediately gathered around.

"Daughter-in-law Youyi, are you planting rice?" Chen Geshi looked at the seedlings in the field and was a little unsure.

Of course she knew Yangmiao, but mainly because she appeared at this time, she couldn't believe it.

Mrs. Chen Zhou knelt down and took a closer look. Before Bai Taotao could answer, she said, "These are not just rice seedlings. Wife-in-law Youyi, how did you grow them? The seedlings have grown taller now, which means you should It has been planted for a few days. The weather was so cold before. How could these seedlings sprout and grow?" After saying this, everyone nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, how did you plant it?"

Then everyone looked at Bai Taotao, waiting for Bai Taotao to explain.

Bai Taotao moved the oilcloth in her hand, "Well, this is it."

Mrs. Zhao: "I saw you working in the rice field before and covering it with this oilcloth. So you were raising seedlings? But what effect can a thin oilcloth cover it do?"

Bai Taotao smiled and asked, "What do you do when it's cold?"

Zhao Ding was the first to reply with a smile: "Of course, I need to put on more clothes when the weather gets cold."

Bai Taotao: "That's right. We know how to put on clothes when it's cold. But if it's cold when raising seedlings, and we worry about freezing them to death, we can also put clothes on the seeds. Wouldn't that keep them warm?"

Speaking of this, Bai Taotao expected that the villagers would ask her how she knew this, so before anyone could ask, Bai Taotao explained first: "The heavy snow this year made me suddenly think of this The idea is that when we are afraid of the cold, we know how to put on more clothes, and then our bodies will be warmer.”

"Then can we do the same when we raise rice seedlings? Then the village just replenished such a piece of land for me after the New Year. I thought it would be empty, so I came to give it a try. If it didn't work, anyway, It doesn’t affect our time to plant seedlings in early April. However, I didn’t expect that the seedlings are growing well now. The weather is getting warmer, and it will be even warmer in another ten days, and they will be almost ready for transplanting.”

Zhao Ding looked impressed when she heard this: "You must be smart. Day by day, we have never thought about this in our minds, and we have wasted the land we have cultivated for decades."

Chen Geshi echoed: "That's right. We have been farming for decades and only know how to grow food and eat food based on the weather. You see the drought last year, we only know how to pour water one load after another. I irrigated the rice fields. Today I filled this rice field, and tomorrow I irrigated that rice field. When the rice fields at home were almost irrigated, and the ones in front were dry again, I spent all day fetching water for more than a month. "

"No one thought that it could be solved with a water windmill. We had to have Wife Yi, who felt sorry for the big guy, and then worked hard to draw the drawings of the water windmill, and asked the county magistrate to work hard to make it. This solved our problem. difficulty."

Mrs. Zhao smiled and said: "So we can only be stupid farmers. We don't think about anything else all day long. We just think about how to plant grain according to the weather, and then we think about praying for better weather so that we can grow crops." We can have a smooth harvest. As long as the harvest is good this year, we won’t work in vain. How can we think so much? If we could think about it, we would have been busy with various businesses like Youyi’s wife. "

Mrs. Chen Zhou: "No, no, that's not what you said. There are so many people doing business, but why doesn't anyone think of water and windmills for us? It must be because I have a wife who understands the hardships of us farmers."

As soon as this was said, the villagers all nodded in agreement.

"By the way, Wife Yi, your seedlings are grown so early. I just heard you say that they can be transplanted in about ten days. If you transplant them early, doesn't it mean that they will be harvested too early?" Chen Ge asked suddenly. After asking, he counted the harvest time with his fingers.

Before she could figure it out, Bai Taotao replied: "Yes, I cultivated the rice buds at home in mid-February and planted them in mid-to-late February. They can be transplanted around mid-March, and the harvest time is around the same time." Around mid-July.”

After saying this, everyone was shocked: "So early!!!"

Zhao Ding asked: "Then your rice will be harvested in July. What are you going to plant in the next long period of time? I saw the radishes you bought on the hilltop. Are you going to plant radishes?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Ding thought about it and felt something was wrong, "But that's not right either. The radishes you know how to grow were planted in November after the autumn harvest. Can you grow radishes in July?"

Bai Taotao smiled and said, "You can plant radishes anytime in our south, as long as it's not too cold. But I don't plan to plant radishes."

Everyone asked in unison: "Then what are you going to plant?"