In the morning, Li Youran drove to the vegetable base. If he didn't go there for a few days, he had to remember to refill the water reservoir there.
The vegetable base has so far provided three batches of vegetables to Baozi Pu and Si Fang Restaurant, covering almost all the varieties needed. The quality of vegetables is also very stable and there are no problems.[..com]
As for the shelf life of special vegetables, based on the data provided by Uncle Qi, he roughly calculated it. It is shorter than that of space vegetables, but it is much longer than the ordinary products on the market. Especially in summer, the difference is even greater.
It's obvious.
The advantage of this is that the vegetable base can reduce the frequency of transportation and just increase the quantity each time.
On the other hand, there are fewer and fewer vegetables that require space and land to directly provide them. Currently, it takes about a week to harvest them, and it is expected that it will not be long before this burden is completely relieved.
Li Youran drove out of the city and drove on the wide road. There was no air conditioning in the car, and the windows were lowered, feeling the fresh wind outside the city.
His mood was as relaxed as the wind, and he could finally put aside these trivial matters and live the life he wanted.
In fact, growing vegetables in space is not boring in itself, it is also a fulfilling thing, and you can also keep fit. But once a task is formed and the goods must be supplied at a certain point in time, it gradually becomes very boring.
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After handing over the work, you can grow medicinal herbs and other plants in the space in the future. As for when to plant and what varieties to choose, since there is no longer supply pressure, you can completely follow your own preferences and whims.
Combining work and interests, combining work and rest, is the most ideal way.
When he arrived at his destination, he parked the car by the side of the road, followed the ridge into the vegetable field, and walked through the village. It was very different from before, full of vitality.
The first thing to approach was the leek field. As soon as I looked at it, I saw a large area of vertically erect and vigorously growing leeks. The green and slightly moist leek leaves looked like newly grown seedlings, exuding a fragrant fragrance in the wind.
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Going further, Chinese cabbage, rapeseed, Chinese cabbage, and radish seedlings are all neatly arranged one by one. The seedlings are strong, energetic, and bright in color. However, it is obvious that they are planted in stages and batches, and each vegetable has its own characteristics.
It is divided into several square formations, the farther away from the road the taller they grow.
Far away are vine crops. The most eye-catching ones are the large cucumber flowers, like golden butterflies flying among the leaves, resting on the vines. Palm-sized green leaves are blowing in the wind on the shelves.
Swinging and making a swishing sound.
The cucumber vines are also planted in batches. Some have just bloomed, while others are already hanging down. The cucumber fruits, which are bright green and have spiny top flowers, look as if they are made of jade, which is pleasing to look at.
In addition, those loofahs, cowpeas, eyebrow beans, etc. next to the cucumber vines are also blooming and bearing fruit in luxuriant branches. In addition, bees, hummingbirds and other little guys picking rice are flying around, making it very lively.
The scenery of the vegetable field is simple, but full of life everywhere.
Li Shuanzhu was leading his men to take care of the vegetable field, weeding, fertilizing, thinning fruits, and pruning branches, each with their own division of labor. When he saw Li Youran coming, he stopped what he was doing and stepped forward to greet him.
"Ranzi, come and take a look." Li Shuanzhu greeted.
"Brother Shuanzhu, the fields are neatly managed and the vegetables are growing strong." Li Youran looked around with satisfaction.
"Hey, talking about this, I'm convinced. I've been planting in the fields for so many years, and I've never seen vegetables grow so strong. Just pour some water and they'll grow up. There's not even a single weak seedling in the nursery field.
, there are no diseased seedlings. Except for the worm attack a while ago, growing this vegetable is really easy and comfortable." When Li Shuanzhu mentioned this new variety of vegetables, he couldn't help but praise it.
"That's good, just be careful. Sowing and raising seedlings should be carried out in batches to widen the time difference. This way, we can ensure that the freshest vegetables are supplied to the restaurant." Li Youran reminded.
The vegetable base is different from ordinary vegetable production fields. The products are not exported and are all digested internally by Baozi Pu and Si Fang Restaurant. Therefore, it is inevitable to adopt the method of growing vegetables in stages, which does not increase the workload.
After all, the shelf life of vegetables in the real world is really limited.
"Of course I know this. Both Daniel and Uncle Qi have told me. By the way, the spring in the reservoir has not produced water during this period, and the water level has dropped by less than half. Why don't you go and take a look." Li Shuanzhu remembered.
His biggest concern is that water is an important guarantee for the quality of vegetables.
"Okay, I'll go take a look." Li Youran came here for this purpose, so of course he had to go there.
The two of them arrived at the reservoir one after another. Due to the shielding and the relatively high edges around the pool, the water in the pool looked as clear as ever and was not polluted by external dirt.
However, the water level did drop a lot. Li Youran took out the jadeite brave from his chest, held it in his hand, and then walked along the edge of the pool with Li Shuanzhu, talking about other things.
When he wasn't paying attention, he threw the jadeite Pixiu into the pool with his right hand, and then controlled it with his mind.
Pixiu dropped suddenly at a height of a few centimeters from the water, and slowly submerged into the water without even raising a splash.
After Pixiu sank to the corner of the pool, Li Youran turned on the water control switch.
"Gululu." Along with a series of bubbles, the water in the pool began to surge.
Li Shuanzhu turned his head when he heard the sound, and was surprised to find that the underground spring started to bubble water.
"Ranzi, you are such a lucky star. I have been staring at you for so many days and there is no movement. You came out of the water as soon as you came. It's so amazing." Li Shuanzhu was surprised.
"Haha, it's just a coincidence. This is a geyser. There will always be water every once in a while. The company's technical staff have inspected it. Don't worry." Li Youran smiled and walked to the other side of the pool to observe. Li Shuanzhu nodded in understanding.
Then I thought about it, anyway, the company's professionals were responsible for this, and I couldn't get involved, so I was too lazy to think about it.
The two inspected the drip irrigation equipment together. The drip irrigation system pumped the pool water into the water storage tank through a special water pump, then filtered and transported it to the pipelines laid in the field. Finally, the dripper dripped the water into the soil at the roots of the crops.
Li Youran squatted down and carefully inspected part of the dripper. It had been used for a while, and the water still came out well, with no scale or blockage. He nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that the purity of the space stream water had once again withstood the test.
He easily pulled out two weeds mixed in with the cabbage. Like the vegetables, these weeds were nourished by water and grew very fast, which added a lot of labor to Li Shuanzhu and the others.
Standing up, Li Youran went to the seedling field again and saw that just as Li Shuanzhu said, there were almost no weak seedlings. It seemed that the seeds produced by space vegetables were very powerful.
It was estimated that time was almost up, so he returned to the reservoir. Now the water output from the Emerald Pixiu was very large, and the water level had risen a lot.
He turned off the water control switch with his mind.
"Brother Shuanzhu, have these sixteen acres been planted?" Li Youran pointed into the ground with his left hand.
"They are all planted, there are no empty ones." Li Shuanzhu replied, and at the same time, following his hand movements, Li Youran quickly put his right hand behind his back and accurately retracted the jadeite Pixiu that jumped out of the water.
After a while, Li Shuanzhu inadvertently found that the reservoir had calmed down. He looked at the water level and couldn't help but praise: "This underground spring is really considerate. Every time the water comes out, it is just right. It stops at the right place and never overflows."
Come."
"The water from the spring also relies on pressure. When the water level is high, the pressure is insufficient and it will naturally stop." Li Youran found a reason to explain this phenomenon.
Li Shuanzhu also nodded in understanding.
At this time, his eyes suddenly stopped on a big cabbage and he took two steps. He stretched out his hand and pulled out a green strip-shaped worm from it, threw it on the field ridge and stepped on it hard with his feet.
"Brother Shuanzhu, are there still bugs?" Li Youran also saw it. It was a cabbage caterpillar. This bug is very harmful. It specializes in eating cabbage and radish leaves and is one of the biggest scourges of crop yield reduction. The adult bug is actually a caterpillar.
Beautiful, it is the famous cabbage pink butterfly.
"This is unavoidable. Special vegetables are all good, but there is one trouble. It's no wonder they like to attract bugs. The vegetables are delicious. We sprinkle pepper water every once in a while, and we can't do too much. At other times,
I can only grab it with my hands, but I can still control it," Li Shuanzhu said.
Vegetable fields in the real world are like this, and trouble is inevitable. It's better to save space, but I am very careful every time I bring items in. I haven't brought insect eggs or the like in, otherwise I don't know how big the mess will be.
Trouble is coming, Li Youran thought.
"Brother Shuanzhu, our special vegetables cannot use pesticides and chemical fertilizers. This is a principle and cannot be shaken. Do you think we can do some biological control, such as getting frogs, toads, etc. into the ground to let them
Wouldn't it be much easier to hunt pests?" Li Youran suggested. Biological control is the most advanced solution, and the benefits it brings are unmatched by any other means.
"Frogs, toads? No, we are in a vegetable field, not a paddy field. Although those things are amphibians, they cannot live long in dry land." Li Shuanzhu shook his head after hearing this.
When Li Youran heard this, he realized that frogs and toads have very high requirements for water. The sunshine in summer is strong, and the soil will dry out soon after watering in the vegetable field, so it is really not suitable.
He stopped talking and walked slowly along the field ridge.
"By the way, I've also heard of something called a forest frog. It lives in the forest all year round. It may be drought-tolerant, and some people raise it for food. But I've never seen it." Li Shuanzhu said suddenly.
Oh, there is also this thing, as long as it is a frog, it should be able to eat pests.
When Li Youran heard it, he felt that there was a way. It didn't matter if he had never seen it before. Now is the Internet age. If he checked online, he would understand everything.
Thinking of this, he asked Li Shuanzhu to go back to the car with him to look at the information.
The two of them came to the parking place one after another, opened the door and got in. Li Youran took out the tablet computer from the leather bag in the back seat, turned it on, connected to the Internet, and started checking it.
"This thing is really convenient." Li Shuanzhu had never paid attention to these things, but now that he saw it, he was really surprised.
"Brother Shuanzhu, you should still learn some things. It's always good to broaden your horizons. Why don't the company buy one for you later?" Li Youran said while checking the information.
"That's a good relationship." Li Shuanzhu watched the other party touch and operate on the screen easily and rows of information were clearly displayed, and he couldn't help but fall in love with this thing.
"Here we have the Northeastern wood frog, which grows in the mountainous areas of Northeast China and is also known as the Husky frog... It is a rare amphibian with medicinal, dietary and beauty functions... The Northeastern forest frog has fine meat and a delicious taste.
It is fragrant and easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body. It is suitable for people of all ages, especially the frail and the elderly. It has high nutritional value... Because of its delicious taste and rich nutrition, it has become a tribute in the Ming and Qing dynasties...
An amphibian under the mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest, it specializes in eating spiders, locusts, snails, stink bugs, flies, mosquitoes, mole crickets, moths and butterflies and other insects. A single forest frog can prey on more than 30,000 pests of various kinds in a year.
..." Li Youran read aloud while checking.
Li Shuanzhu's mind at this time was not entirely on Rana. When he saw so much detailed and useful information easily displayed on such a small screen, he couldn't help but secretly lamented that he was so behind the times. It seemed that in the future he would just rely on the original information.
It won't work to rely on your wealth and experience, you still have to learn.
"It's really a good thing. It can not only control insects, but it can also be eaten. Haha, it kills two birds with one stone. But what if this thing can jump and run around." Li Youran was very happy after reading the information, and then remembered the specific problem.
"This is easy to do. We can just encircle a barbed wire fence around the field. The mesh should be smaller, about sixty centimeters high, so that it can't jump out no matter how much it jumps. It just costs a little more." Li Shuanzhu immediately thought of a solution.
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"It doesn't matter how much money you spend, as long as you can solve the problem." Li Youran doesn't care about this expense. Special vegetables are high-profit products in restaurants, so there is no need to save this little money.
He handed the tablet to Li Shuanzhu and asked him to take a look.
"Then I think this method is feasible. By the way, we can leave a few puddles beside the vegetable field and spread them out so that the forest frogs can rest and lay eggs." Li Shuanzhu said while looking at the pictures.
Li Youran rested his head on the backrest and thought about it further. When forest frogs move in the vegetable field, they can easily find the drippers of the drip irrigation system. They can also drink water from the spatial stream. In this way, they can grow stronger and perhaps the frog meat will be better.
It's delicious, haha. But this will have to wait until the breeding reaches a certain number. First, we need to control the insects. In addition, it seems that it is not the breeding season now.
Having made up his mind, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Feng Daniu, asking him to go find a merchant selling live forest frogs and buy a few hundred of them first to raise them.
Feng Daniu immediately agreed. After such a long time of purchasing work, he had already learned how to search for information and dealers online, because boss Li often asked him to buy some weird things, and he just relied on asking acquaintances and fellow villagers to find out what they were.
It was bearable. For this purpose, he specially applied for a desktop computer for the logistics department. In addition, he also hired Gu Weiwei as a teacher to teach him and Xiaoxia for a long time.
Seeing that he had made a decision, Li Shuanzhu said that he would immediately start purchasing and installing the barbed wire fence.
The two chatted for a while and saw that there was nothing else to do at the moment, so Li Shuanzhu got out of the car and returned to the vegetable field. Li Youran also stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the city.!