American Ranch

Chapter 177 Wild Bee Valley

The pastures in the pasture area of ​​the manor are all withered and yellow.

Just before dawn, Chen Mo woke up the glutinous rice dumpling sleeping on the bed with a 'jiujiu', turned over and got up, and left the villa after a morning run after a simple wash...

The glutinous rice dumplings also spread their wings and flew around Chen Mo for a while, before flying to the distant forest.

Be a happy old man from today, chasing the wind and freedom.

Driving the tractor, along the dirt road of the pasture, Chen Mo began to plow the land deeply.

In summer in Napa Valley, if there is no artificial irrigation, even the lawn in your own yard is easy to wither and turn yellow.

The parameters of the tractor were adjusted yesterday. After pressing a few buttons, the tractor started to work at a constant speed.Chen Mo closed the car door tightly, took out his mobile phone, clicked on the player, and then turned on the Bluetooth...

There is a set of high-end audio in the cockpit of the tractor, and the first song played is: The boundless sky is my love, and the flowers are blooming at the foot of the rolling green hills...

Loosening the soil, leveling the land, and burying fertilizer are all done at one time.

For the land where fruit trees are to be planted, it is better to have enough fertilizer, so that the progress of the work is a little slow.

……

With 150 acres of flat land and the remaining hills, Chen Mo has been busy alone for more than a month.

The glass greenhouse has been built long ago and has been handed over to Chen Mo. The gate of Hegu Manor has also re-hanged the sign of "Private Manor No Entry".

In the space, Chen Mo frowned as he watched the morel culture tank he made, wondering what went wrong.

Chen Mo collected strains made of morel spores in the space, and then made culture materials completely imitating the growth environment of wild morels. It has been almost a year in this space... Now it is May in the space, and there are a lot of morels The growing season has just passed, and the culture tanks show no signs of growing mushrooms.

"A problem with the bacteria?"

"There is nothing wrong with the collection of bacteria."

In order to grow the morels in the space, Chen Mo went to a mushroom farm in the Napa Mountains and learned how to prepare the strains...

You can't go wrong with the strain.

The problem lies in the compost?
Common hickory chick, compost production method is to carry out high-temperature sterilization to form after watering the sawdust of trees such as poplar, oak tree, fruit tree.

The morels in the space are just similar to the morels outside, but they are definitely two species.Similar in shape, different in size, and even more different in taste...

The stipe of the morel is hollow, the fruiting body is small, the length is 6-14.5cm, the cap is 4-6cm long and 4-6cm wide.Stem white, 5-7cm long, 2-2.5cm wide, with shallow longitudinal grooves, slightly enlarged base.

And the morels in the space are solid.The fruit body is large, the length is basically more than 20 cm, the stalk is white and the length is more than 13 cm, thick and large, translucent, smooth as in winter, basically slightly smaller.

Basically, it is similar to the cap, with many pits formed on the surface, which are morel-shaped and light yellow-brown.

……

It must be a problem with the compost.

Compared with the artificially cultivated chicken fir fungus, it must be added to the termite nest.

There must be something I overlooked.

Thinking of this, Chen Mo picked up the hoe and went into the deep forest, and dug up the pile of soil where he had found the big morel before... But nothing was dug out.

"Jiujiu..." The glutinous rice dumpling was brought to the space by Chen Mo, went out for a while and then flew back to Chen Mo's shoulder, combing the feathers.

The tastiest mushroom in space is the giant morel.

Then there are matsutake mushrooms and chicken fir mushrooms... These mushrooms are similar to the wild mushrooms outside in terms of size and taste.

Only the large morel is the most special.

Could it be that the big morel really can't be cultivated?
Chen Mo buried the hole in depression, the glutinous rice dumpling suddenly flew down from Chen Mo's shoulder, pecked at a blackened amber honeycomb on the ground, and ate a small piece.

"Honeycomb, you can't eat it." Chen Mo grabbed the little guy, put it on his shoulder, and continued to go deep into the forest.

The morel mushroom is the same as the colostrum fungus, and its growth has its own characteristics, just like the place dug just now. Chen Mo saw the morel mushroom "last year" here, and picked it up again this year.Even in 'one year', Chen Mo picked up several large morel mushrooms in that place...

The growth of Gallus pilosula is inseparable from the termite nest, and the growth of the large Morchella should also need specific things...but it is definitely not a termite nest.

Chen Mo went to several other growing sites of morels, and dug out a honeycomb buried in the soil from one of them...

Depend on!
honeycomb……

Beehives were found around the two growth points of the large morels, and Chen Mo went to other points to check, and there were beehives.Some of the hives were still hanging from the trees, and some had fallen to the ground.

These hives are not big, the largest hive is only the size of a soup bowl, and the small hive is no bigger than a palm.There are very few beehives in the woods, and most of the bees in the space live in a place that Chen Mo doesn't want to go...

In September of space time, Chen Mo finally used the hive to cultivate a large boletus, and the time outside was only about ten days.

……

There are many bees in the space, and there are also many hives and abandoned hives.But they are all concentrated in a place named 'Wild Bee Valley' by Chen Mo, which is the place Chen Mo is least willing to enter.

Wild Bee Valley is in a valley downstream of the space. Chen Mo wanted to eat honey before, but he was chased out by fierce bees when he didn't go in... After that, he tried several times, using smoke and wearing thick rain, but he couldn't succeed.

This is the most dangerous place in space, and the only place where it is dangerous.

In order to cultivate large morels in large quantities, Chen Mo had no choice but to venture into the valley, wearing a thick firefighting suit and two raincoats...

In the quiet valley, you can only hear the sound of bees flapping their wings and buzzing after entering.

Space time At the end of September, the temperature is similar to that of April, but it is much drier.But in the valley, you can still see big boletus everywhere...

Before stepping into the valley, swarms of buzzing bees rushed towards Chen Mo, stretching out their long poisonous needles behind their buttocks to attack Chen Mo.

"Depend on……"

Chen Mo ran inside with his back strapped to his back, slapping his body at the same time...

Wearing thick western clothes, his knees were still stung, like a needle point piercing his bone. Chen Mo grinned in pain, and ran to the edge of the cliff to put the honeycombs that fell on the ground into the back sling. Dare to stay and run out of the valley...

The best way to anger the bees is to leave the space quickly, but never leave the valley.

Leaving the space from the valley, the next time you come in, you will still be in the valley, and you will be chased by bees again...

The black bees were flying above the head, and Chen Mo ran away desperately until he was far away from the valley. The bees were still chasing them, and Chen Mo hurriedly left the space...

In the entire space, more than 90.00% of the bees are concentrated in the valley, and the number is huge...

Appearing in the living room of the villa, Chen Mo put down the strap, feeling that the stung knee had lost consciousness.There is no redness and swelling, but pain, so painful that I lose consciousness and become numb...

Chen Mo was hurt by Bee Zhe once last year, and it hurt for less than half a month.

Take off the clothes, densely packed with small holes, and bee tail needles.

It is said to be a bee, its size is not much smaller than that of a wasp, and its tail needle is longer... There are also several bee species in the bee colony, and the one with the longest tail needle is about 4 cm.

Chen Mo was stung on the knee, and also on the back.

"Fuck, it hurts to death..."

(End of this chapter)