Alpine Orchard - Chapter 221

[Chapter 221 Pilot]

have been busy with other things in Gaoshanping for two days…

leveling the feed point of the reservoir, and planting grass in the overgrown orchard.

The cantaloupe in the melon field ushered in another batch of ripe.

The weather is hot and the fruits ripen quickly.

Ye Mo got up early in the morning and went to look at the super big watermelon in the greenhouse. This big watermelon stopped growing at the beginning of the month, and it has matured by now.

Ye Mo called Zhang Yuanqiao: “Hello, Boss Zhang.”

“Huh?”

“The watermelon is already ripe. When you are free, come and pick it.” Ye Mo said.

“I’ll pack it later.”

“Wait for you. I’m picking melons here, come over to eat melons.”

” Okay.”

There are 80 large watermelons in the greenhouse, and 20 of them have not been grafted, and they are still growing well… …Looking at the size of watermelons, they are basically around 200 catties.

For the remaining watermelons, 40 were grafted with gourds. 10 use winter melons, 10 use pumpkins…

the vines grafted with winter melons grow the largest. Several of them are estimated to be close to 300 catties. It looks very big, but the shape of the watermelon is not as beautiful as the grafted gourd.

The ones grafted from pumpkins are relatively round, and although they are also very large, they are… not as beautiful as those grafted from gourds.

The most beautiful melons are those 20 ungrafted watermelons. The grafted gourds are also very beautiful.

If you want to plant this variety in large quantities in the future, you can just plant the watermelon seeds directly in the field without grafting. It is also very good depending on the growth. You can save a lot of work by not having to graft. Suitable for large-scale planting…

Gao Yuan and Li Xuebin were notified yesterday.

Gao Yuan came here early in the morning, saw Ye Mo at the side of the shed, and walked over: “The big watermelon is very beautiful.”

“Yeah.” Ye Mo smiled and nodded, catching the cigarette Gao Yuan handed over.

“Have you considered planting these watermelons on a large scale?” Gao Yuan said.

“Yes. Next year, depending on the situation… Plant tens of acres of large watermelons. But the area is large, and the watermelons will definitely not grow to such a large size. These watermelons are specially bred…”

“If each can weigh forty or fifty catties , is also good.” Gao Yuan said.

Ye Mo shrugged and said, “Leave some watermelon seeds here and plant them next year for the villagers at the bottom of the mountain. Then, you should help sell them.”

“No problem.”

Ye Mo’s father and the others came over.

Ye Mo told Gao Yuan about the development of ecological agriculture in Xiahongshan Town, as well as about the labeling of cantaloupe…

Gao Yuan sent out a cart of cantaloupe yesterday, but there was no label on it: “Well, just stick it on.”

Li Xuebin also came over , took a lot of labels over.

The three most eye-catching characters in the middle of the label are ‘Hongshan Town’, and behind the big red characters are ‘Gaoshanping Orchard’. There is also a row of small characters on the top, which is Yancheng County, Huacheng City… The introduction of the product is placed at the bottom, ‘Emerald Cantaloupe’.

The contact number is the customer service number of Li Xuebin and his company.

There are two labels, the other label is for Gao Yuan, and the contact number on it is Gao Yuan’s company phone number.

Li Xuebin also asked Gao Yuan and Ye Mo about the labels.

Ye Mo doesn’t have customer service here, and it’s not easy to put his personal phone number on it.

There are more ripe cantaloupe today, and baskets of cantaloupe are transported out.

Li Xuebin and the others were helping to label the awning. After nine o’clock… Chen Shan came over, as well as their town mayor, senior town officials, and Wang Hong, director of the Rural Revitalization Office.

Everyone is curious about what a cantaloupe that can sell for tens of dollars per catty looks like.

Before entering the arbor, the group could smell the unique sweet smell of muskmelon.

The smell is not strong, but very clear and very comfortable. The sweet smell of the melon also attracted bees, flying around the melon shed…

“Brother Chen, Mayor Zhao.” Li Xuebin shouted.

“Hey…” Zhao Hai smiled and said, “It’s so early, we started picking.”

“The early birds get the worms. If I come late, the boss Gao will take away these melons. “Li Xuebin introduced them with a smile: “This is Boss Gao. Boss Gao… This is the mayor of Zhao, and Chen Shan, the deputy head of Changzhu Village, is also my elder brother.”

” Mayor Zhao Good, Brother Chen.” Gao Yuan stood up and passed cigarettes to several people.

“Let me introduce to you, this is Lao Luo, Luo Chengwen, our senior town official in Hongshan Town.”

“Hello, Secretary Luo…”

“Ye Mo.” Li Xuebin yelled with a smile, and said, “Secretary Luo is here.” , come here quickly and ask Secretary Luo to guide you in your work.”

“I know what guidance is, so I just come to visit.” Luo Chengwen was a little speechless.

Zhao Hai laughed and said: “Boss Li likes to joke.”

“Just kidding…” Li Xuebin said.

“Every day, don’t make jokes.” Chen Shan said: “There are so many people, you are yelling here.”

“Sorry, sorry…”

“I dare not talk about guiding work.” Secretary Luo also laughed: “Such a Large watermelon fields, muskmelon fields…how much output value can there be?”

“The output value, what is the final output value?”

“Only the income of the melon farmers?”

When Ye Mo walked over, he heard Li Xuebin say: “Boss Ye is not a serious melon farmer. His watermelons, cantaloupe… combined, it is estimated that the output value is several million.” Li Xuebin just laughed and said, It was not convenient for him to answer these questions.

“Why am I not a serious melon farmer?” Ye Mo gave Li Xuebin a white look.

“Seriously…”

Ye Mo opened a few melons for everyone to taste.

These melons are really sweet and fragrant.

Half of the pulp is crispy, the other half is soft and tender, and the saccharification in the melon pulp has a richer fragrance.

I heard them say that the cantaloupe here can be sold for as much as tens of yuan per catty, and they still didn’t believe it, but after tasting it and asking about it, they don’t think it’s an exaggeration for this price.

“Are these melons a common variety?” Secretary Luo asked.

“It’s the preferred variety we bought,” Ye Mo said.

“If other farmers come to plant, can they have such a good quality?”

“Well, it’s hard to say.” Ye Mo thought for a while and said, “The management of these melons is very troublesome. If it is an ordinary farmer, I suggest planting watermelons It is better. Planting watermelon is relatively simple, and… the yield of watermelon is higher. Cantaloupe, if it is not particularly good, the price is relatively average, not much more expensive than watermelon. Planting watermelon and cantaloupe is quite troublesome… ”

“The work in the field is not troublesome.” Secretary Luo said.

Chen Shan said to Ye Mo: “Our production team has abandoned a lot of land. After that, I want to sort out the abandoned land and try to plant a batch of watermelons or cantaloupe next year… You can give me guidance then.”

Ye Mo nodded : “No problem. I’m still trying to keep my own seeds. Last year’s big watermelon seeds, I gave some to Ms. Xiaomian and them. Let’s see when those watermelons come out. If the yield is good, I can provide some watermelon seeds next year. ”

“Well.” Chen Shan smiled and said: “Our village can be used as a pilot. After you have experience, you can promote it.”

Ye Mo doesn’t recommend planting melons, that’s because Ye Mo doesn’t have cantaloupe seeds on hand.

These emerald melons are a hybrid variety. Many melons have been bloomed before, and the seeds in the pulp… are mostly empty shell seeds and tender seeds. Although some seeds can be taken out, it is a hybrid melon after all… Keep the

hybrid melon seeds? This seems to be the same as keeping the hybrid rice seeds…

the hybrid rice leaves the seeds, and the second year of planting is uneven.

Ye Mo doesn’t major in agriculture and doesn’t understand genetics. But I also know that hybrid varieties don’t leave good seeds.

(end of this chapter)