However, in this year's spring plowing, Marin plans to play with some flowers. For example, he no longer only planted rye, but planned to plant some wheat...
The wheat grown in spring is of course the legendary spring wheat. Of course, this thing is not available in Europe. The local wheat in Europe is currently very scary. At present, the wheat in Europe is usually planted in November of the first year and then harvested in October of the next year. The growth cycle is almost nearly a whole year...
Malin clearly remembered that the winter wheat grown by his family in his previous life was planted in November, and it started to harvest in early June of the following year, that is, during the college entrance examination. When the country did not restrict the roasted wheat grass, during the college entrance examination, the thick smoke from roasted wheat grass outside the city could spread throughout the county, making people unable to help crying. Then, farmers would plant rice and harvest it in October...
But that was later generations, and the wheat seeds were completely different. Moreover, applying phosphorus fertilizer in later generations can also promote early maturity of wheat.
In Europe in this era, there were no early wheat varieties. In addition, the latitude of Europe was generally higher than that of China. For example, in northern Germany, the latitude was similar to that of the later Greater Khingan Mountains. However, due to the effect of the North Atlantic warm current, the climate in northern Germany was much warmer than that of the Greater Khingan Mountains.
In fact, it is not that East Asia has no warm currents. Instead, the warm currents of East Asia are blocked by the Japanese archipelago and cannot affect the Northeast. If the Japanese archipelago sinks, the Northeast will be much warmer...
There are no seeds of spring wheat in Europe, but Marin has been to the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, spring wheat is planted in the northern region, and winter wheat is planted in the south of the Yellow River.
Although spring wheat is not as delicious as winter wheat, it is also wheat, right? If you plant dry crops such as millet, the yield will not be increased. Even in later generations, the yield per mu of millet is only three or four hundred kilograms, rarely exceeding 500. There is no way, the variety is just like that, and it is really difficult to produce high yields.
But in this era, winter wheat and millet were generally rotated in the northern regions south of the Yellow River. Because the millet growth period was short. Because the winter wheat in this era had no phosphorus fertilizer, its growth period was longer than in later generations. Therefore, the interval time was generally used to transition from millet that only needs to grow for three or four months. Later, after the introduction of corn from the Americas, the corn yielded a lot and the growth period was also short. Then, winter wheat and corn were rotating in the northern regions.
Of course, that was later generations. Spring wheat was usually sown north of the Great Wall, because it was too cold north of the Great Wall, and winter wheat could not withstand the cold winter.
In this era, it seems that the weather is a little colder than in later generations. Therefore, the planting of spring wheat is mainly done near the northern capital, including in northern North China.
Look, when Malin stayed in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he took the opportunity to purchase a lot of seeds of spring wheat. Of course, most of them were winter wheat seeds.
But the latitude of northern Germany is too high, and this era is a bit cold. Therefore, Marin didn't want to think about winter wheat and other things, and was usually sent to the Americas for planting.
As for spring wheat, Malin is not buying too much, only 100,000 kilograms, which is only enough to plant 5,000 acres of land. But Malin is not greedy. Anyway, he does not intend to promote spring wheat as the main grain of Beihai Country. After all, Beihai Country is really not suitable for wheat cultivation. The main reason is that the accumulated temperature is not enough...
In addition, farmers in Beihai Country are not very adaptable to wheat cultivation and management at all. In particular, the management of wheat fields is much more troublesome than the rye field.
Rye has tenacious vitality, similar to wild weeds. After planting rye, farmers basically don’t have to worry about weeds. Because rye itself has the vitality of weeds, and weeds may not be able to compete with it.
Wheat is different. It is much more delicate and can easily be "bullied" by weeds. Therefore, it is very troublesome to need farmers to go to the ground to remove weeds frequently.
Also, wheat requires greater water. Growing wheat requires more irrigation water. To this end, irrigation ditches need to be dug, and soil trenches need to be dug in the fields to facilitate wheat flooding.
Moreover, wheat is not rice and cannot be irrigated for a long time. It requires good time and quantity. Without certain experience, it is difficult to make it well.
Such a troublesome process, with the IQ of the rough Germans in this era, it seems a bit difficult to understand and is also troublesome. Therefore, in this era, those who plant wheat generally took fertile land along the edge of the river. On the edge of the river, it is convenient to set up water trucks. Water trucks can irrigate themselves without manpower. However, in ancient China, people in this era were different. In order to irrigate wheat, they actually used manpower to trample and horses... Anyway, it is difficult for Europeans in this era to imagine themselves "transformed" into mules and horses to trample the water trucks... Even in Italy, they only learned from Arabia how to dig irrigation canals and ditches. It is unlikely that they should trample water trucks... Therefore, European wheat production areas in this era are generally on the land along the river valley, and irrigation is very convenient...
Of course, Marin would not let the people step on the waterwheel, and 5,000 acres of spring wheat were not much. So, he simply selected 5,000 acres of land next to the Ames River in Lyle County to grow spring wheat. Marin was in the wheat field on Manhattan Island, because irrigation was not a problem on the island in the middle of the Hudson River.
Although spring wheat is not as delicious as winter wheat. However, it is also wheat. In any case, the taste of bread made from wheat flour is much better than that made from rye flour. If the average yield of these 5,000 acres of wheat fields is 500 kilograms per mu, it will also have a yield of 2.5 million kilograms. It can be used to make white bread, and it can be sold at a high price if it is sold at a high price. Anyway, there is no spring wheat in Europe, and there are not many people who eat white bread. If it is sold at a high price of 5 Finney per pound. If it is sold at a high price of 2.5 million pounds of wheat, it can also have more than 40,000 gold coins...
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"Oh, can you grow wheat in spring?" The incident of Marin's order to plant spring wheat by the Ames River in Lyer County shocked the entire Beihai country. Because this is unreasonable.
Therefore, when planting spring wheat, the riverside was full of fun. You should know that European wheat is usually sown in November of the first year.
Malin didn't care about the people watching the fun, because he also wanted the people to see the wheat cultivation process.
In particular, the daily management of wheat requires farmers to take a look. Wheat is not rye, and rye can be planted without any care. Wheat is expensive, so it requires water irrigation several times, and people need to pull weeds in summer. This series of behaviors is not much the same as the agricultural habits of German farmers.
Therefore, the 5,000 acres of spring wheat planted by Marin is not to promote spring wheat, but to allow German farmers to understand the wheat cultivation and management process.
After all, many German farmers will be sent by Marin to the Americas to grow wheat. Letting them familiarize themselves with the wheat management process in advance is also considered to be knowledgeable, so as not to be at a loss when they arrive in the Americas in the future.
As for Manhattan Island, Albert was lucky to promote wheat cultivation. Because there was no shortage of water there. Moreover, Manhattan Island was located in the middle of the Hudson River. After the weeds were cleaned up, the weeds outside the island could not come in. Therefore, we rarely need to pull weeds. Therefore, the wheat harvest there was a bumper harvest, which was completely lucky.
Fortunately, Marin brought back many farmers when he went to the Ming Dynasty. These people will serve as demonstrations to guide local immigrants in Manhattan Island and the La Plata River Basin on Argentina to finely plant wheat so as not to be submerged by weeds...
Chapter completed!