[098] Raising ducks
The summer harvest in Qianwan Village went smoothly, and everyone was in a very good mood. The crop harvest this year was really good. The rice yield per mu in the entire village was about 1,000 kilograms, which was a very inspiring joy for the villagers of Qianwan Village.
The high crop yield means that they will not be hungry this year. After finally experiencing war, they are in a better life now, and finally they don’t have to worry about the enemy burning, killing, looting, and worry about not having enough food as before.
Moreover, the crops in Qianwan Village are not only high in rice yield, but also in corn, sweet potatoes and other grains. The yields of these grains are quite high. Although some miscellaneous grains are not available at this time, everyone has been doing farm work for decades, and they are experienced and in their eyes. This year, the sweet potato vines grow very well. Occasionally, when they are cut and fed to the pigs at home, they can pull out one or two sweet potatoes, which are particularly good. Because the sweet potato vines grow well, the pigs at home also grow fat.
Qianwan Village also has taro, but taro is not a staple food for them, so they don’t grow a lot of taro, which is like corn. When they are hungry, they can fill their stomachs, or cook some food after cooking. They plant only less than one acre, but the yield of taro is indeed very high.
The yield of taro is about 1,000 kilograms per mu. Some taro stems are edible, but some taro stems and taro leaves are used to feed pigs. The pigs at home have eaten both sweet potato vines and taro stems and taro leaves this year, which are quite strong.
It is not time for taro to be harvested yet, but it is still very busy during the busy farming period. Although the rice has been harvested, the work in the fields is still busy, such as various grains and other things are beginning to mature one after another and need to be collected.
Chen Tiezheng and his family also had to collect the grain. The rice was to be harvested, but the beans, sweet potatoes, etc. in the dry land, and even taro, etc. It was really busy with farming. Chen Tiezheng and his friends didn't finish the rice, so they didn't do any farm work.
Of course, after this busy period, I can feel a little more relaxed. After all, the rice in the next season has to be bred for one or two years. In this free month or two, Chen Tiezheng and the others have a lot of ideas. After all, they have several think tanks, and they always feel that if they don’t grow things in the free months or two in the fields, they can’t waste it.
The cultivation near Qianwan Village is two seasons a year, and each season will be planted one or two months apart. Of course, it will not be really two months. After a month of free time, seedlings will be planted. If you plant seedlings, you have to wait until the seedlings are full moon before you can plant them.
It is only the beginning of the fourth lunar month. Everyone is accustomed to growing seedlings after the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth lunar month. When the seedlings are full moon, they can plant seedlings.
Nuannuan still remembers that every time she planted rice in summer, the wild fruits on the mountain, scientifically named Myrtle will ripen and be ready to eat them.
There are also Myrtle on the mountains near Qianwan Village. The mountains near Qianwan Village are not very high, the highest is only two or three hundred meters high. Most of them are small hills more than one hundred meters high, with various wild fruits growing on them.
There are many wild guava, myrtle, and raspberries, and of course there are also figs in the mountain.
It’s a long way to go. Just after the busy farming, Chen Tiezheng and Yu both felt that it was a bit wasteful to have their homes free. There are so many children in their family that need to be raised and they also need to provide all the children to school. How can they not make money well?
Moreover, the children of the Chen family are all capable children. No matter what Chen Tiezheng and Yu have any ideas, they will cooperate. Of course, it is impossible to connect farming in the fields, and the land must have time to cultivate and maintain the fertility of the land and keep the land fertility undiminished.
Now the rice in the fields has been harvested. If you plough it again, it will take a month to plough a small piece of land to cultivate seedlings. The remaining land will not be cultivated until June of the lunar calendar. These lands are also empty for the past or two months, so it is quite good to do other things.
Chen Tiezheng did not say that he would plant some more things on the land, such as growing vegetables or other miscellaneous grains. The growth cycle of these crops and vegetables may be short of rice cultivation in the next season.
That's why Chen Tiezheng decided to raise some chickens, ducks, geese and so on in the field, at least raise these poultry. In the future, their family can not only eat eggs but also meat. If they talk too much, they can still sell it for sale.
And if poultry is convenient in the field, then chicken manure, duck manure and other things will have the effect of fattening the fields. Of course, you must do something that kills two birds with one stone? What's more, there is a golden doll in their family that can summon animals and manipulate animals to make animals obedient - Nuannuan, what kind of animals cannot be raised?
Chapter completed!