PFC Chapter 375: Is it possible to have two crops of rice?
Chapter 375: Is it possible to have two crops of rice?
“Based on the temperature recorded this year and the data on the time when grains mature, it is feasible to grow two crops of rice!
However, the rice seedlings must be grown in advance in winter.
After the ice and snow melt, the paddy fields will be irrigated. When the water temperature is suitable and the seedlings have grown big, you can start transplanting!
By advancing this time, the second seedling raising should be carried out one month before the rice matures and is harvested.
After the rice is harvested, the paddy fields are cleaned, irrigated again, and then the second seedlings are planted.
In this way, the second rice harvest time will be postponed by about 70 days compared to the current first-season rice harvest time.
Han Dazhong watched him finish and nodded, "What do you think?"
"Okay, let's give it a try."
"You can plant them. But the weather in spring is changeable. If you plant the seedlings in the paddy fields so early, the weather will suddenly change and the temperature will drop.
How can we keep more than 2,000 mu of paddy fields warm? If the warming measures are not good, all the seedlings will freeze to death, which will be a disaster."
He didn't finish his words, but everyone knew that the consequences would be serious.
After a moment of silence, everyone spoke out their opinions, some agreed, some expressed concerns.
Li Lanzhen listened for a while and then spoke.
"Otherwise, we can use 500 acres or 1000 acres for experiments next year.
If the experiment is successful, we can do the same thing next year.”
After hearing Li Lanzhen's compromise, everyone nodded.
Who wouldn’t want to grow and harvest one more crop of food?
Seeing that the matter was settled, Zhang Deshui told everyone another story.
"We interplanted soybeans in our corn fields this year and the harvest was very good. We can continue to interplant next year."
Everyone saw this and nodded in agreement.
Xue Lao Hu knocked on the table and said, "The sunflowers we planted last year grew quite well, but there is too much waste when using sunflower seeds to extract oil.
I suggest that we take the sunflower seeds harvested this year to the oil mill in Youzhou City to exchange for oil. This would be more cost-effective.
Just pay them the processing fee.”
Li Lanzhen thought about it and it made sense. The oil press in Peach Blossom Land last year was also designed based on the drawings in the space.
The oil press shown in the drawing looks like an old manual oil press, and its oil yield is relatively low, so it is quite wasteful.
After thinking about it this way, everyone agreed.
Han Dazhong concluded, "Okay. We'll ship the sunflower seeds we harvested this year to the big oil mill in Youzhou City, and exchange them for oil and bring them back for use in the big kitchen."
"Village Chief, it took us too much time to dig out the corn roots from that corn field last year!
But cornstalks are a good thing for making fire."
Li Lanzhen also knew that although the land where corn was planted was relatively barren, perhaps because the soil in the Peach Blossom Spring was fertile, the corn grew very strong and its root system was relatively large.
After the corn is picked, the corn stalks are chopped off and crushed into green fodder to feed livestock, leaving the corn roots in the field.
Adults and children used hoes and shovels to dig, which was time-consuming and laborious!
This is indeed a problem!
"How about we use the iron plowshare to plow the corn roots through the field?"
"No, there are not enough iron plowshares to clear the wasteland."
Li Lanzhen was also thinking about this matter in her mind. In this dynasty, the control of iron products was very strict.
I don’t know whether the Le Dynasty lacked iron ore or had not yet developed iron ore.
The plowshares on the iron plowshare are all made of iron. After more than a year of land reclamation, they are badly worn out.
If you use it to remove corn roots in a corn field, the degree of damage will be even greater.
She made note of this matter and when she returned to the yard and entered the space, she would look around to see if there were any suitable tools that could be modified to solve the problem.
Seeing that no one could explain the reason and there was no better way to solve the problem, Han Dazhong sighed.
"Let's do it this way this year. Tomorrow we will all go to the fields and dig out the corn roots.
Next, we hurriedly clicked in the sunflower. "
Han Dazhong asked Li Lanzhen, "Sister Lanzhen, do you want us to go over and help dig out the sweet potatoes and potatoes in Lishu Village? They planted quite a lot this year."
At the beginning of spring, the people of Lishu Village went to the mountains to dig up soil and poured it onto the barren land of Lishu Village to fertilize the fields.
The project was huge, but they persevered.
In this way, 300 acres of wasteland were reclaimed.
Planted sweet potatoes, potatoes and more than 100 acres of corn?
Li Lanzhen shook her head and said, "There's no need for us to go over and help. If they need help, Dunzi will bring a letter.
If the pears on the mountain are ripe, we have to send some people over to help pick them."
When it comes to this, everyone becomes excited.
"Sister Lanzhen, the peaches in our peach orchard are in great condition this year.
Not only are they big, but they are also round and have red beaks, which makes them look festive.”
Li Lanzhen also laughed. It was indeed true. Although the survival rate of the peach trees in the peach forest was only about 80% after being grafted, the fruits they produced were very good.
Compared with grafted peach trees, the survival rate of grafted pear trees on the mountain of Lishu Village is not high.
It’s just that the pears produced by the surviving pear trees this year are a little bigger than in the past, and have a sweeter taste, so it can be said to be a great success.
Han Dazhong also smiled and said, "We'll let these two fruits grow for now, and we'll go over to help when they're ready to be picked."
Everyone discussed the farm work that should be done in Taohuayuan during this season.
Li Lanzhen remembered what happened in the big kitchen and asked Han Dazhong.
"Village Chief, how are things arranged in the big kitchen? How many people have been added?"
“Oh, I was just about to say that.
This matter has been resolved and six more people have been added to the large kitchen.
So now there are ten of them in total, and they can fully complete the work of preparing three meals a day in the cafeteria."
Li Lanzhen nodded to show that she understood. She turned her head and looked at the three doors on the north wall of the dining room.
The door frames have also been installed, and there are no thresholds on the three doors.
Li Lanzhen told Li Erhan that the dormitories they were building for the 113 disabled soldiers had no thresholds on all the doors.
Li Erhan and the others didn’t know the reason, but they didn’t ask. They just did it!
Li Lanzhen made this request because she was afraid that some of these disabled soldiers would have disabled legs and would find it difficult to walk.
Then you have to use a wheelchair, but it is inconvenient because of the threshold.
Thinking of this, Li Lanzhen sighed in her heart in self-blame.
She forgot to give the improved wheelchair drawings she had prepared to Li Erhan and others.
There were actually wheelchairs in this dynasty, but they were too bulky.
So she searched through the space and found a blueprint of a lighter wheelchair suitable for this dynasty.
She thought of making a batch first, and then using them if they could be used by these 113 disabled soldiers.
If they are not used, they will be put inside and sold when the furniture store opens in Youzhou City.